Fontbonne University Lays Off 10 Percent of Workforce

Fontbonne University (MO) laid off 27 employees this week, representing about 10 percent of its workforce, the university’s president confirmed Thursday.  Michael Pressimone, president of the small Catholic liberal arts school with an enrollment of about 1,375, said the layoffs were mostly administrative and no tenure-track faculty lost their jobs. A few nontenured instructors lost jobs, but “about 23 or 24” were not academic positions.