Sixty employees at the University of Oregon will find out this week that they’re losing their jobs as the university makes a second round of staff cuts this year due to a more than $25 million budget deficit.

The cuts, announced Monday, did not affect any tenure-track faculty members or eliminate any programs. That quelled vocal concerns from faculty and their unions that humanities departments would be gutted and tenured professors tossed aside.

Including the 57 people the university cut in early summer, the Eugene institution has culled 117 filled positions since last school year. It cut another 59 vacant positions.

Classified staff – who do everything from groundskeeping to working front desks — got hit the hardest, with 49 job cuts. The university also cut 42 “officers of admini

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