Centennial College cutting more programs, staff after suspending 49 programs earlier this year

Julia Alevato · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 02, 2025 6:43 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Centennial College is cutting further programs this autumn aft announcing erstwhile programme suspensions aboriginal this year.  

The schoolhouse would accidental what programs were being affected by the cuts, but confirmed to CBC Toronto it was making a "handful of further adjustments" to programs for Fall 2025. 

Centennial would besides not accidental however galore jobs would beryllium eliminated, but Centennial College president Craig Stephenson said successful the connection that each affected employees person been personally informed and provided with entree to the school's Employee Assistance Program.

In January, the assemblage said it was suspending 49 programs arsenic it dealt with fiscal challenges related to the national government's headdress connected planetary survey permits.

Student Evelyn MacLeod-Dutt's program, creation plan fundamentals, was among those affected aboriginal this year.

She applied for 2 different programs, merchandise plan and improvement and good arts studio, to proceed her education, but recovered retired connected Friday that they were besides suspended.

"To perceive that, it was some shocking and precise upsetting. I had spent astir of Friday conscionable benignant of successful a authorities of daze and upset astir it," she said. 

Last month, the assemblage said it planned to merge 2 of its 5 campuses owed to declining planetary pupil enrolment and "stagnant authorities funding." 

In a connection astatine the time, Stephenson said the assemblage volition relocate each programs from its Story Arts Centre successful East York to its Progress field successful Scarborough by the summertime of 2026.

In a connection Wednesday, Stephenson said Centennial "has made the hard but indispensable determination to calibrate our workforce."