Cabrini University Cuts Top Administrators to Balance Finances

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The sign at the campus of Cabrini University in Radnor
Image via Tyger Williams, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Cabrini University President Helen G. Drinan announced the Radnor university is coping with declining enrollment and a mounting deficit by eliminating some senior academic leadership posts, writes Susan Snyder and Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The cuts are expected to save the private Catholic university nearly $1 million this year. That is being matched with an effort to find new revenue sources, which would allow the university to break even financially within three years, said interim President Helen G. Drinan.

Cabrini has a $5 to $6 million deficit in its $45 million budget this year. Enrollment has fallen 36 percent to 1,500 from 2,360 in 2016-17.

 “We continue to lose money every year,” Drinan said. “That is no longer tenable. It can’t continue. We can’t hope for a better day. We have to work for a better day.”

The reorganization shifts Cabrini from three colleges to two. The School of Education will be absorbed by the School of Arts and Sciences with the School of Business and Professional Studies as the second college.

The provost, associate provost, and three deans will be eliminated, replaced by a dean of academic affairs and two associate deans.

Eighteen department chairs will be reduced to eight.

Read more about Cabrini’s deficit issues at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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