Northern Arizona University is eliminating 45 jobs and closing four satellite campuses as a result of recent cuts in state funding.
The latest round of layoffs primarily targets the distance learning and enrollment departments.
The university is awaiting a report due out in mid-April to determine whether any faculty members would be laid off. University spokeswoman Lisa Nelson says no tenured or tenure-tracked faculty would lose their jobs.
The layoffs come as the three state universities, NAU, Arizona State and University of Arizona,
are trying to balance their budgets after the state legislature cut their funding by $141 million this year.
NAU lost about 13 percent of its state funding, or approximately $21 million.
The state Legislature has reduced funding for the three state universities and many other services, because state-tax revenues are down. The state had to close a $1.6 billion shortfall this year, and the outlook for fiscal 2010 is even worse, with a projected $3 billion shortfall.
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