A week after Martin University announced it would “pause operations” at the end of the semester, the university terminated all staff and is encouraging students to transfer to other local colleges.
In a meeting with staff on Monday, interim president Felicia Brokaw told employees the university was terminating them because it could not pay them. She also said the university had not submitted payroll because it did not have the funds to pay staff for hours they had already worked.
“The reason why we’re doing a termination letter is so that I’m not digging deeper in debt,” Brokaw told staff, according to an audio recording of the meeting obtained by Mirror Indy. “Once the money gets in, everybody will be contacted, and we will go ahead and send the money out.”…