Campus Saint-Jean lays off 12 staff members
Alex Migdal
Multimedia Editor
Aug 15, 2012
Campus Saint-Jean announced Wednesday that it was forced to lay off 12 staff and contract academic staff in order to eliminate its operating deficit, continuing a widespread trend of layoffs in several faculties over the past few years.
A news release issued by the U of A noted that costs and spending had outstripped revenues in last year’s budget. Marc Arnal, Dean of Campus Saint-Jean, said the faculty had taken all available steps to prevent layoffs, including not filling three open vacancies, limiting travel and discontinuing some IT initiatives. The decision to lay off staff was the “last option,” Arnal said.
“Of course there will be an impact on Campus Saint-Jean — we are losing, and will certainly miss, 12 excellent people — but there will be little impact on mission-critical work as both the layoffs and the service reductions have been carried out according to the University of Alberta principle of protecting the quality and scope of academic programs and student services,” Arnal said in the release.
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The dean of campus saint-jean is not named Marc Danal. It’s Marc Arnal. Get it together guys.
Posted by Teefonz on Aug 24, 2012
Thanks for posting the correction, Teefonz. We’ve amended the article.
Posted by Editor-In-Chief on Aug 24, 2012
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