Columbia College Lays Off 20 Faculty Members Amid Budget Cuts

Columbia College lays off 20 faculty members amid budget cuts

Tuesday’s announcement is the latest in a series of cuts the school has made to programming and staffing in an attempt to plug the $38 million budget deficit.

Columbia College Chicago lays off 20 faculty members amid budget cuts

Columbia College Chicago has laid off 20 full-time faculty members as part of planned cuts to academic programs, the downtown art school announced this week.The layoffs are the latest in a series of cuts the school has made to programming and staffing in an attempt to plug the $38 million budget deficit. Seventy staffers were laid off in May 2024. In September, the school cut 18 “underperforming” majors. The 20 faculty members, 18 of which are t…

Breaking: Columbia lays off 20 more full-time faculty in surprise summer round of cuts

An additional 20  full-time faculty members at the college were laid off Tuesday, June 17, abruptly informed during virtual meetings that their positions had been eliminated — effective Aug. 15.    The affected faculty are in the schools of Audio and Music, Business and Entrepreneurship, Communication and Culture, Design and Visual Arts, including 18 faculty with tenure appointments and two teaching-track.   Half of those laid off were from the …