Quinnipiac professors 'reeling' from a rapid-fire round of faculty layoffs

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Like so many institutions, Quinnipiac University has struggled at times to maintain its financial footing since the recession. And like their counterparts elsewhere, Quinnipiac professors have borne the brunt of that struggle, seeing a salary freeze and stalled hiring along the way. But faculty members say that no one saw last week’s rapid-fire round of full-time faculty cuts coming, and they’re still “reeling” from the news.

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<p>Read more: <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/14/quinnipiac-faculty-reeling-rapid-cuts#ixzz31jErykhR"&gt;http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/14/quinnipiac-faculty-reeling-rapid-cuts#ixzz31jErykhR&lt;/a>
Inside Higher Ed </p>

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<p>wow I’m so surprised because at our acceptance day they made it a point that while other schools are cutting back they are hiring new people etc. I wonder if that means part time people instead of full time people?</p>

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<p>It was full time faculty. The financial situation at Quinnipiac is not good.</p>

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<p>The cuts were less due to financial troubles for the University and more due to a dramatic change in the student population from liberal arts majors to business, communications and the health sciences. The cuts were all in the College of Arts and Sciences and while my majors were among ones affected by the cuts and I strongly disagree with the decision it is not due to financial troubles as QU is hiring in other areas. </p>

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<p>The cuts were due to the HUGE financial drain from 4 areas: 1) QU owns 2 law schools and enrollment is WAY down; 2) Engineering enrollment is WAY down, faculty and expenses exceed the student enrollment numbers; 3) QU Medical School start up costs are very high; 4) $$ Title IX lawsuit cost millions of dollars after QU found guilty.</p>

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<p>I should add that overall undergraduate enrollment is also way below what QU was projecting to need to offset expenses. QU has open enrollment and even by lowered standards in order to get more undergraduates to enroll, it is a very expensive school and is having trouble with meeting expenses.</p>

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<p>I would like to just clarify the misinformation on this forum. </p>

<p>We are NOT an open enrollment University nor do we have an open enrollment admissions process. We are rolling admissions (with an early decision option), we receive over 22,000 applications a year and accept 67% of our applicants (2013 data). Some of our health science programs have acceptance rates in the teens. Also, since Quinnipiac is not ‘test optional’, we receive a wide range of SAT scores and therefore report them for all students, not for just a small sample.</p>

<p>Our freshman class was smaller than last year’s but overall undergraduate enrollment is higher with our largest enrollment in history. </p>

<p>Quinnipiac has only one law school, it simply moved from the Mt. Carmel campus to the North Haven graduate campus which provides needed classroom and lab space for Communications and Engineering faculty and students. Engineering enrollment is growing each year as we expand the program.</p>

<p>All colleges have to balance their finances carefully given the costs and the demographics which challenge higher education. We encourage you or anyone else to connect with the University directly if you have any questions or concerns. Please feel free to contact me directly - I’m happy to help and give honest feedback.</p>

<p>Paul Krsiak
Associate Director of Admissions
Undergraduate Admissions
Quinnipiac University
<a href=“mailto:paul.krsiak@quinnipiac.edu”>paul.krsiak@quinnipiac.edu</a></p>

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<p>69% of all those students that apply are admitted to Quinnipiac University, from which 14 percent choose to enroll.
<a href=“Quinnipiac University: Acceptance Rate, SAT/ACT Scores, GPA”>http://collegeapps.about.com/od/collegeprofiles/p/quinnipiac-university.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>“the law school seceded from UB and fled to Quinnipiac in a panic to save its hard-won reputation from dissolving into ridicule.” That is one law school, the other is the downsizing from Hamden.
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<p>And the nearly $10Million that Quinnipiac has to pay for its Title IX lawsuit is only part of its financial problems:
<a href=“https://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/en/home/she-network/education/huge-title-ix-victory-today-in-quinnipiac-university-case”>https://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/en/home/she-network/education/huge-title-ix-victory-today-in-quinnipiac-university-case&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>There is only QU law school and like the admin official said it simply moved locations. </p>

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<p>So there is no Quinnipiac law school in Bridgeport (formerly owned by the University of Bridgeport)?</p>

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<p>QU purchased UB’s law school in 1992. They operated in Bridgeport until 1995 when the law building on the Mt. Carmel campus was completed. Just this year the law school was moved to a beautiful new facility on the North Haven campus. </p>

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<p>@cruze13, thank you for the clarification. So what happened to the faculty working in Bridgeport then, they weren’t also terminated like the ones this year, just asked to commute?</p>