New School administrators plan to reduce the university’s employees by 20% through buyouts and layoffs by June, according to documents obtained by the New School Free Press.
The figure suggests hefty reduction efforts. Additionally, because buyouts, or “voluntary separation” and “voluntary early retirement” offers, so far have only resulted in a 7% workforce reduction, layoffs are expected to be significant.
Administrators have said since November that buyout efforts would not be enough, according to multiple documents and emails, and that layoffs are contingent on how many employees participate in the buyouts…