PLU Could Cut More Than 30 Faculty Members in Budget Fix

A faculty group at Pacific Lutheran University is recommending steep faculty cuts at the small suburban college in Parkland.  Within three years, 31 faculty members could lose their jobs and two areas of study be eliminated or reduced, if the university’s board of regents approves of the recommendations in December.  The proposed cuts were blamed on declining enrollment over more than a decade without a corresponding cut in the number of professors at the university, which celebrated its 125th anniversary last year.