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What universities have laid off tenured math faculty for financial reasons?

When a math department lays off tenured staff, people cry out loud. But, 10 years later, such memories are no longer popular discussion subjects, and so the information doesn't always spread. Those ...
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Ideas on how to prevent a department from being shut down.

[Please stop upvoting. I don't want to get a gold badge out of this...] [Too late... is there a way to give a medal back?] Dear community, the VU University Amsterdam, my employer, is planning to ...