Western Illinois University plans to cut 57 faculty positions — 40 of which are tenured or tenure track — and 32 staff positions as part of an effort to become more fiscally sustainable, the institution said Friday. The public university will also move 16 positions from its Quad Cities campus to its main Macomb campus in 2025 as the university streamlines operations and adjusts its offerings at Quad Cities to focus on select areas. Those moves follow earlier budget initiatives by the university that included a hiring freeze, reducing student aid, elimination of 100 vacant positions, the nonrenewal of 35 faculty contracts and departmental consolidation.
