http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2003/08/2003082501n.htm

Clark Atlanta U. Plans to Fire 75 Faculty Members

Clark Atlanta University plans to fire 75 faculty members as part of an effort to eliminate a $7.5-million budget deficit.

Clark Atlanta recently mailed letters to all 157 of its nontenured faculty members to inform them of the plan. The university has not decided which faculty members will lose their jobs at the end of the spring-2004 semester, according to Sheila Jack, a Clark Atlanta spokeswoman, but officials felt it was necessary to notify all those who might be fired.

The universitywide cuts may cost some tenure-track professors their jobs, according to Ms. Jack. Some departments may be eliminated entirely, she said.

The university's budget shortfall also led to the dismissal in June of 112 nonacademic staff members. "This is part of a whole repositioning that the university is going through," Ms. Jack said, "with the goal of strengthening the university fiscally and academically."