The University of Northern Colorado officially completed layoffs of 50 employees this month, attempting to manage a $14 million budget deficit projected to stretch into 2027.
Fifty filled and 35 vacant staff positions were among those impacted by the workforce reduction, which officials say was required due a variety of factors, including an altered enrollment forecast this summer, a lower-than-anticipated employee turnover and a lack of state funding.
Of the 50 filled staff positions reduced, 20 were classified employees, who are generally paid hourly wages, and 30 were professional administrative employees, who are salaried employees in administrative roles. Of the vacant staff positions that were eliminated, seven are classified and 28 are professional administrative personnel.
Nine faculty positions will be not be filled when the jobs are vacated at the end of the academic year. Four are tenure or tenure-track positions. Five of the faculty jobs impact contract-renewable positions, which are one-year positions.
In October, UNC President Andy Feinstein and Chief Financial Officer Dale Pratt announced the layoffs during a lengthy town hall attended by more than 700 from the university community. They said then faculty will only be reduced through retirement or non-renewal of temporary contracts.
Permanent, tenured faculty are not included in the layoff process.
The academic departments impacted by the faculty reductions are in four of the five colleges, the university said: College of Education and Behavioral Sciences; College of Humanities and Social Sciences College of Natural and Health Sciences; and Monfort College of Business. Only the College of Performing and Visual Arts was untouched by the faculty reductions.
The layoffs will not affect the planned 3% raises for faculty and professional staff scheduled for January.
The layoffs will reduce UNC’s operating costs by about $8 million with the biggest impact coming in fiscal year 2027, Feinstein said last week. UNC is currently in the middle of its fiscal year 2026 budget, which ends in the summer.
UNC received a slight increase in state funding for the current year. The university was to receive to $70.6 million this year, an increase of 2.2% from the previous year.
Feinstein said UNC plans to reach the $14 million mark by also implementing non-personnel reductions and being “very vigilant” about employee turnover in the near future
The most recent cuts will amount to a 6.5% reduction in the UNC operating budget through June 2027. UNC is looking at an estimated $7 million deficit for the current fiscal year that ends June 30, 2026. Anticipating needs and expenditures beyond 2026, the university is also targeting about $7 million in cuts stretching into mid-2027.
“We have too many employees for the number of students that we have,” Feinstein said Thursday. “We’ve talked about this, and we’re spending too much money, so we need to reduce our employment, our employees, and we need to reduce our budget.”
Health, life and dental insurance costs are up 13%, Feinstein said Thursday, and adjusted inflation in Colorado is about 3%.
“We want to be able to provide our employees with a living wage and support our community,” he added. “We can’t do that with this kind of pressure.”
Feinstein said the university wants to save another $6 million through non-personnel reductions. Non-personnel reductions will cover a variety of expenses and will be different from unit or division at UNC, according to university spokeswoman Deanna Herbert. Some of these reductions are still being identified, but they may include areas such as travel and professional development.
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