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WKU Announces Second Round Of Staff Cuts

College Heights Herald

  The president of Western Kentucky University unveiled phase two of the school’s budget cuts on Thursday. 

WKU President Timothy Caboni says this second round of cuts will result in a $14 million saving. 
The personnel cuts include 10 filled staff positions and the elimination of 20 vacant  positions. 

Caboni says he avoided across the board cuts, but instead put the responsibility on deans and division heads to recommend positions for elimination. 

“I would stay there’s not a pattern based upon revenue generation or expenditure. But we did try to protect those areas focused on enrollment, retention, persistence graduation and also academic areas. So what you’ll see when the position list is released is that they are spread across the enterprise.”

In the first round of budget cuts, WKU eliminated 119 positions.

President Caboni says no additional staff cuts are expected in the upcoming two-year budget.

Rhonda Miller began as reporter and host for All Things Considered on WKU Public Radio in 2015. She has worked as Gulf Coast reporter for Mississippi Public Broadcasting, where she won Associated Press, Edward R. Murrow and Green Eyeshade awards for stories on dead sea turtles, health and legal issues arising from the 2010 BP oil spill and homeless veterans. She has worked at Rhode Island Public Radio, as an intern at WVTF Public Radio in Roanoke, Virginia, and at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Rhonda’s freelance work called Writing Into Sound includes stories for Voice of America, WSHU Public Radio in Fairfield, Conn., NPR and AARP Prime Time Radio. She has a master’s degree in media studies from Rhode Island College and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Rhonda enjoys quiet water kayaking, riding her bicycle and folk music. She was a volunteer DJ for Root-N-Branch at WUMD community radio in Dartmouth, Mass.
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