HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. — In an email sent to the university’s staff and faculty on Tuesday morning, Northern Kentucky University President Dr. Cady Short-Thompson announced that several financial factors have necessitated “difficult but strategic adjustments” to the budget midyear.

The adjustments mentioned in the email included “eliminating some vacant positions, reducing operating budgets, and making a small number of staffing reductions, accounting for less than one percent of our total workforce.”

NKU has roughly 2,000 total employees, meaning 1% of the workforce accounts for a personnel decrease of around 20 positions. The university confirmed to the Northerner that 18 filled positions have been eliminated, but declined further comment.

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