Catholic U. Is ‘Playing With Fire’ by Trying to Lay Off Tenured Professors, Committee Declares

A faculty committee at Catholic University of America (DC) this week resisted a controversial cost-cutting proposal that would eliminate 35 full-time professors, including those with tenure. The report of an ad hoc committee, published late Wednesday night, is a forceful rebuke of key components of a long-simmering layoff plan that has sown division at the university, which was founded by American Roman Catholic bishops.