HARTWICK REDUCES

WORKFORCE BY 18

Editor’s Note:  This is a new version of the story, revised to correct errors in the first posting.

ONEONTA – Hartwick College is eliminating 23 non-faculty positions – five that are vacant and 18 that are filled – to close an estimated $1.68 million shortfall in the 2015-16 academic year, college President Margaret L. Drugovich announced.

Also, five year-’round employees are having their positions reduced to nine, 10 or 11 months, the announcement said.

Eliminating the positions will help recoup $1.47 million of the $1.68 million budget shortfall, the college said.

The college will also make targeted reductions in non-personnel operating expenses.

The strategy, unanimously endorsed by the college’s Board of Trustees this week, is effective immediately.