Just months after announcing it was laying off 6% of its total employees this summer, Meredith College removed all of its academic deans from their positions leading the college’s four schools in November. Students protested the layoffs Nov. 10, also citing poor campus conditions like pests and mold in the living facilities.
Weeks after the protest, claims emerged Dec. 3 on social media that the deans that once led the historically women’s college’s four schools were now being placed on administrative leave with pay, despite the college previously telling media the deans would be offered faculty positions and no further staffing changes were anticipated.
Meredith spokesperson Melyssa Allen told Carolina Public Press because the reassignment of deans is a personnel issue, she could not provide further information or verify the claims of administrative leave. But Meredith will be “returning to a department-head structure for the academic division,” she said, as it has utilized in the past…