Saint Leo College Pronounces Main Cuts

Saint Leo College introduced a collection of cuts Thursday “to enhance efficiencies and improve its future choices for college kids.”

Among the many cuts:

• The college, which is predicated in Florida, will not supply programs in Charleston, S.C.; Joint Base Charleston–Naval Weapons Station, S.C.; Columbus, Miss.; Corpus Christi, Tex.; and Jacksonville, Lake Metropolis, Ocala and Mayport, Fla. College students presently taking lessons at these facilities will be capable to transfer to the college’s on-line program to proceed their coursework.
• Six of its 23 NCAA Division II sports activities groups will probably be eradicated. The college didn’t identify the sports activities.
• The college will discontinue three diploma applications.

A complete of 111 school and employees positions had been eradicated, of which 27 p.c had been not too long ago vacant.

The college plans to develop its bachelor’s diploma program in nursing and lots of the applications in its newly established Faculty of Computing, Synthetic Intelligence, Robotics and Information Science.