Widener Library, Harvard University (in full dress for the inauguration of the new university president. (Credit: Joseph Williams)
Woke colleges and universities across the country are being forced to do with less and are slashing thousands of jobs. This is a good thing.
Higher education in America has become fat and bloated. At some schools, there are almost as many administrators as there are students. And people still wonder why tuition has gone up so much in recent decades.
There is no need for an ‘assistant vice president of campus diversity’ yet many schools have them. Maybe they should start cutting those positions first.
FOX News reports:
Universities slash 9,000+ positions in 2025 as Trump targets federal funding and foreign students: report
A new report from Inside Higher Education says the university system is bleeding jobs.
The report, published Tuesday, found that the higher education sector lost 300 jobs in December, and a total of over 9,000 positions were cut through layoffs and buyouts in 2025, which the report stated is “undoubtedly an undercount due to unreported personnel actions.”
The report cites President Donald Trump’s restriction of federal research funds, the priority of limiting enrollment of foreign students, and clashes with universities over infractions of alleged civil rights violations as well as increasing operational costs and “an uncertain federal policy environment” as the culprits.
“While many of December’s job cuts were not attributable to Trump, others seemed directly connected, including the loss of hundreds of international students at DePaul University, which undercut tuition revenues, prompting layoffs,” the report reads…
According to the report, Chicago-based DePaul University slashed 114 staff jobs last month, and has reportedly lost hundreds of international students.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln has a plan to cut 51 jobs. Western Wyoming Community College did away with 33 jobs and reorganized 30 others, and almost three dozen faculty members at the University of Kansas chose to take buyouts offered by the school.
Hopefully, this is just the beginning.
Higher ed has been bloated for decades. Administrative expansion and declining student demand made this outcome inevitable. pic.twitter.com/qgIPZOXXRO
— Nicki Neily (@nickineily) January 8, 2026
American colleges and universities are not just overpriced. They have become little more than radical leftist indoctrination centers that impart no real life or job skills, unless you are studying for a professional job like doctor or lawyer and even in those cases, schools are injecting their left wing politics.
Higher education needs a massive overhaul and the people involved in that industry are not going to do it voluntarily.
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