Staff at Rockhurst University found out last week they would be required to take five days of furlough before June 30 as part of a cost-cutting measure. Leadership at the private Jesuit school in Kansas City, Missouri, announced the decision, which is designed to help “lower a budget deficit for this fiscal year,” to staff on Jan. 30. The furlough decision does not affect faculty, whose employment is contracted, but Rockhurst professors “will teach one additional course next academic year,” a spokesperson for the university said in an email to KSHB 41 News.
