PHOENIX — Northern Arizona University will eliminate 45 jobs and close four satellite campuses as a result of cuts in state funding.
The positions eliminated are primarily in the distance learning and enrollment departments. No faculty members will lose their jobs.
The layoffs come as the three state universities — NAU, Arizona State and University of Arizona — are trying to balance their budgets after the state Legislature cut their funding by $141 million this year.
NAU lost about 13 percent of its state funding, or $21 million.
The state Legislature has cut funding for the universities, and many other services, because state-tax revenues are down. The state had to close a $1.6 billion shortfall this year, and the outlook for fiscal 2010 is even worse, with a projected $3 billion shortfall.
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