Western Illinois University fires 24 faculty, including 7 with tenure (one a philosopher)

The WIU news release and an article at CHE.   Brian Powell is the tenured philosophy professor who has been terminated, though he will get one more year of employment, under the terms of the union contract.   WIU now has only three philosophy faculty left, one of whom is already slated to retire in 2020.  

Needless to say, financial exigency is the proferred defense for all this.

I fear we will see more of this in the coming years.