SOU has suffered a series of financial crises in recent years. This latest is a collision of multiple factors, including what ...

A major announcement from Southern Oregon University (SOU) in the face of a $5 million shortfall. The institution said it’s ...

Similarly, financial exigency shall not be used as a means of endangering academic freedom or discriminating against persons on grounds of sex (including sexual harassment, sexual violence, sexual ...

Declaring financial exigency is one of the most serious steps a financially strapped college can take, and it’s typically used only by institutions facing such imminent and severe financial ...

Here's what to know about TSU's financial state, what financial exigency would mean and what state and university officials are saying about it all. $2.1 billion: Biden administration says ...

Declaring financial exigency basically acknowledges that a college cannot meet its contractual obligations and allows it to take unusual cost-saving steps, like firing tenured faculty members.

In most cases, exigency will not be the best means for dealing with the economic consequences of this emergency. It is too extreme, too blunt a tool that’s likely to lead to a cascade of ...

Widespread exigency declarations may still be unlikely, according to experts. Researching exigency procedures is an administrator doing his or her homework, but following through with formal action ...

Exigency comes from Medieval Latin exigentia, from the present participle of Latin exigere, to drive out, to force out, to exact, to demand, from ex-, out of + agere, to drive. The adjective form ...

Florida State University, without declaring financial exigency, is currently moving ahead with layoffs for 21 tenured faculty members (along with many more who lack tenure). Clark Atlanta University ...