{"id":231948,"date":"2026-06-30T16:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231948\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:33:22","slug":"temple-university-to-cut-staff-to-close-85-million-budget-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231948\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple University to cut staff to close $85 million budget gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Temple University&#8217;s president says layoffs are &#8220;inevitable&#8221; as the school tries to close an $85-million-dollar deficit due to falling enrollment.<\/p>\n<p>President John Fry said his goal is to return the school to a balanced budget within three years.<\/p>\n<p>The first step is cutting $ 60 million. He says he sent every school, college and administrative unit a &#8220;budget reduction target&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Some faculty, he says, have already accepted early retirement and some vacant positions have been eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>There are some encouraging signs of a turnaround in enrollment.<\/p>\n<p>Fry says first-year and transfer deposits are up year-over-year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Temple University&#8217;s president says layoffs are &#8220;inevitable&#8221; as the school tries to close an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20313,69,71,70,13468,10869],"class_list":["post-231948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-budget-deficit","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-temple-owls","tag-temple-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}