USC’s social work school, the largest in the world and one of the oldest in the nation, might be forced to lay off nearly half its staff and eliminate the vast majority of its part-time teaching positions.
to reform the scandal-plagued university. Folt formally takes over USC on July 1 but has been working behind the scenes to address a raft of challenges, including the college admissions scandal and fallout from sexual abuse claims against campus gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall.
The task force Sadan helped lead made recommendations in April to begin addressing the budget problems. They included slashing up to 45% of the staff over two years and doing away with hundreds of posts for adjunct professors and mid-level deans. Their recommendations also included ending study abroad and international programs.
The virtual program launched under Flynn in 2010 nearly quadrupled the student body to 3,500, a size that even exceeded the enrollment of many liberal arts colleges. FlynnBut the program did not prove a panacea long-term. Additional teachers were costly, a digital learning company took a large portion of revenues, and other universities began cutting into USC’s market with their own virtual social work programs, according to interviews with faculty and administrators.
Data that emerged after Flynn’s departure corroborated faculty concerns, professors and administrators said. Up to 40% of admitted students in the final years of her tenure were “conditional” admissions, meaning they lacked the minimum 3.0 GPA for full-time undergraduate study or failed to meet other stated requirements, the sources said.
At about the same time, a whistleblower alerted administrators to what the employee considered a suspicious financial transaction handled by the dean. He had stepped down abruptly from the state Assembly after learning he was the subject of a sexual harassment probe. He denied the accusations, but legislative investigators later found that several allegations “more likely than not” occurred. USC’s schools of public policy and social work bothand the social work school also gave him a scholarship to study for a master’s degree.
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