“Management cites a 20% fall in enrollment to justify laying off 40% of lecturer faculty. These cuts seem far out of scale and appear to be retaliatory for our union organizing,” said CFA San Francisco Chapter President Brad Erickson. At an August presentation to the San Francisco State Budget Committee, Provost Amy Sueyoshi outlined a plan to make up for a projected budget shortfall by slashing lecturer faculty positions. Starting in the spring, administrators propose to cut 125 full-time equivalent positions which would result in the layoff of approximately 325 of the 1,084 mostly part-time lecturers across the university. Lecturers faculty make up 60-percent of the university’s faculty. The presentation also outlined cuts of 23 full-time tenure-track faculty, and six full-time staff positions.
