Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
At one point Monday afternoon, about 140 Wright State University faculty members attended a Zoom meeting to discuss the possibility of university job cuts during the global pandemic.
Wright State leaders Monday announced they were cutting administrators’ salaries by 20 percent, freezing contracts and capital projects — and leaders acknowledge that may have to consider job cuts at some point.
None of it came as any surprise, said Laura Luehrmann, president of the university’s Faculty Senate.
“Dr. (Susan) Edwards (Wright State president) has been saying for weeks that if cuts are needed, she’ll be the first to take them,” Luehrmann said in an interview. “And this was one of the ways to show that. I think it was very well received.”
“I don’t think there was anger or surprise” among WSU faculty, Luehrmann said after the Zoom meeting.
The session was a regularly scheduled faculty Senate meeting, focusing on many topics over more than two hours, not just university finances.
