Linfield College (OR) is preparing to cut faculty positions to save costs, as the small, private college based in McMinnville adjusts to a smaller student body.  Linfield faculty members say up to 25 tenure, or tenure-track faculty positions are at risk as college leaders wrestle with tight finances.  The college wouldn’t confirm there are 20-25 positions on the chopping block, as faculty members allege. But that’s what members of the Faculty Executive Council emailed out to Linfield professors after a meeting with college leaders, including Linfield President Miles K. Davis.