One university conducts another queen sacrifice

How do colleges and universities respond to enrollment and financial pressures?

One response is to cut tenure-track faculty members. Years ago I nicknamed this “the queen sacrifice” after the desperate chess move, when a player gives up the most powerful piece on the board (here tenure-track faculty stand in for the queen) in a big to win. I’ve tracked too many of these sacrifices, and today will describe another.

Cabrini University recently laid off six professors, three of whom were not just tenure-track, but tenured. For…