The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents overwhelmingly approved a plan Thursday to lay off numerous tenured faculty members as part of the closure of UW-Milwaukee’s College of General Studies. UW-Milwaukee administrators have pointed to declining enrollment as the reason to shutter the college, which means as many as 35 tenured professors may lose their jobs. Earlier this month, a UW-Milwaukee faculty member told Inside Higher Ed that 60 nontenured employees in the College of General Studies had already been given layoff notices.
