{"id":461449,"date":"2026-09-12T07:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461449\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T07:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:54:20","slug":"usc-cuts-65-workers-at-viterbi-school-of-engineering-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461449\/","title":{"rendered":"USC cuts 65 workers at Viterbi School of Engineering \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Southern California said it will lay off 65 workers in its Viterbi School of Engineering as it restructures amid budget cuts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The school is \u201crestructuring its information technology operations\u201d due to \u201cnecessary budget reductions,\u201d wrote Melissa Gerdes-Leonard, associate vice president of client services with USC\u2019s human resources department, in a Sept. 1 letter filed with the state\u2019s Employment Development Department.<\/p>\n

Notifications began the week of Aug. 31 with layoffs happening between Nov. 4 and Dec. 3.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we position USC for the future, we are aligning our teams, talent, and resources with the university\u2019s long-term strategic priorities and the evolving needs of our community,\u201d a USC spokesman said.<\/p>\n

The EDD filing was made as part of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act \u2014 commonly referred to as WARN, which is required when an employer lays off more than 50 employees.<\/p>\n

The layoffs mentioned in Gerdes-Leonard\u2019s letter include programmer analysts, software engineers, program directors, web developers, computer services consultants, network engineers and distance education operations engineers.<\/p>\n

USC has had fiscal challenges in the past year. The most recent layoffs in fall 2025 cut 259 jobs during an operating deficit of more than $230 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In February, USC President Beong-Soo Kim told a crowd at the Health Sciences Campus that the university was on track to generate a roughly $30 million operating surplus for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, according to the Daily Trojan student newspaper<\/a> at USC.<\/p>\n

Last year, USC laid off nearly 1,000 people throughout the university system. It currently has 23,942 faculty and staff<\/a> \u2014 about 500 less than last year\u2019s count. That tally doesn\u2019t include 9,632 student workers.<\/p>\n

In last year\u2019s round of job cuts, Viterbi laid off 55 professors, academic program directors, adjunct and clinical instructors and student services advisers.<\/p>\n

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