Boston U Preparing to Lay Off More Than 100 Employees Amid Financial Difficulties
“These difficult decisions will be communicated personally to affected employees, along with information about support and transitional services available.”
Tuition at BU is currently north of $69,000 and that’s before room and board. How are they having money problems?
FOX 25 in Boston reports:
Boston University to lay off over 100 employees amid financial difficulties
One of the region’s flagship schools will soon lay off over 100 employees, citing increasing financial difficulties.
Boston University will reduce its staff by approximately 120 employees for the 2026 fiscal year, a school spokesperson told Boston 25 News Monday.
BU aims to decrease its operating budget by 5 percent in the new budget due to financial concerns.
The downsizing is due to difficulties tied to “federal funding cuts, rising inflation, changing demographics and more” a school spokesperson said in a statement.
“These difficult decisions will be communicated personally to affected employees, along with information about support and transitional services available,” a BU spokesperson said.
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BU produced Occasional Cortex. It deserves to go belly-up when it does.
Easy fix, fire about 8-10 of your most leftist professors. Not the janitors and lower class of people that you will fire. Think of the money you would bring in by firing the highest paid leftist “professsors”
@Jack
She may have been in Boston but I do not believe she attended any classes. If she had she would know something about economics, her major, I believe she paid someone to take her classes for her.
She may have been in Boston but I do not believe she attended any classes.
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economics?–would bet asinus cortez can’t even make change
She came in pretty smart and left pretty stupid. Her major if I recall was economics and foreign affairs, but she seems to know diddly-squat about either of them.
Going to college does not make you smart. I and others who graduated from a university can tell you about all the outright dumb students and professors they met who had no conception of reality
If they’re cutting DEI administrative bloat (or even administrative bloat in general), that’d be a Good Thing.
I bet, though, that’s not what they’re planning to do.
100 is in the weeds for a university the size of BU.
I find it offensive that these big colleges (calling them “universities” is not accurate) whine and complain about money when they have massive endowments and they are wasting their money on leftist, activist “professors”, DEI offices that don’t actually do anything. Enough whining. It would be fantastic if students across the country simply stop applying to these idiot colleges. Then you will see the headlines about how “terrible” things are with no one in the pipeline to pay their out of this world fees.
$70k tuition and a nearly $ 4 Billion endowment. Now they have money problems. Maybe they need a competent accountant to tell them where the money is going. One place might be all the useless professors on their payroll teaching various “studies” classes.
OK, who’s getting the axe? This article is curiously light on details.
It would be nice if BU laid off a bunch of administrators.
But that’s most unlikely.