INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) \u2014 Oakland City University on June 1 will lay off 167 employees, it said in a notice to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.<\/p>\n
University leadership attributed the workforce reduction to ongoing financial challenges.<\/p>\n
The layoffs affect 110 full-time employees and 57 adjunct and part-time workers. Employees received notices April 1.<\/p>\n
Ron D. Dempsey, president of Oakland City University, said in the notice to the state that the separations may become permanent.<\/p>\n
The university\u2019s website says the top five majors are business, criminal justice, education, university studies, and psychology. U.S. News and World Report says the four-year university had 502 students in fall 2024. The private, faith-based institution is operated under the guidance of\u00a0the\u00a0General Baptist Church<\/p>\n
Oakland City, a Gibson County town of about 2,300 residents, is about a 40-minute drive north of downtown Evansville.<\/p>\n
The university issued a formal notice about the layoffs to the state in accordance with the Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) \u2014 Oakland City University on June 1 will lay off 167 employees, it said in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-250088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}