The Chronicle News Blog: 9 Tenured Faculty Members Are Laid Off at San Francisco Art Institute
The San Francisco Art Institute has laid off nine tenured faculty members in the latest in a series of cutbacks aimed at stemming the institute’s cash-flow problems.
The financial crisis and credit crunch have hit the institute particularly hard, said Bob Gamboa, a spokesman. Lenders have been stingy since 30 percent of its endowment disappeared last fall in the stock-market crash. Since then, the institute has taken a number of belt-tightening measures, including a blanket salary freeze for nonunion faculty and staff members, compulsory furloughs during semester breaks, and a 25-percent pay cut for senior administrators.
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The layoffs at SFAI at totally at odds with every guideline in the tenured faculty Union Contract. It appears to be an attempt by amateur administrators to clean house–to remove faculty that they don’t want.
There’s also a good chance that they are violating laws against discrimination (gender, age, disability) and retaliation for normal union activities. Legal actions are in the works to bring justice to the targetted faculty.
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