Penn State plans to lay off about 50 full-time, non-contract employees as it looks to shrink a budget deficit, but that does not account for how many fixed-term employees or research and teaching assistants might be affected.
The university would not specify how much it expects to save by eliminating the roughly 50 positions. Penn State also said it does not have an estimate of the number of research and teaching assistantships that could be cut.
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