Fanshawe College cutting 400 jobs as student enrolment drops

CBC News

· Posted: May 08, 2025 11:21 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

The president of Fanshawe College announced that 400 employees volition suffer their positions arsenic the schoolhouse struggles with a melodramatic driblet successful full-time home and planetary students. 

Speaking to employees packed into a lecture theatre astatine the London main field connected Thursday, with hundreds much watching online, Peter Devlin said the schoolhouse is projecting a $72-million shortage successful the coming 2 years. 

"We are moving toward a people of a 35 per cent workforce reduction. That's a lot," Devlin said. "That amounts to astir 400 folks." 

In April, Fanshawe College said it would beryllium ending 40 programs effectual successful the autumn of 2025, including constabulary studies, applied aerospace manufacturing, operation task management, good creation and status residence management. 

Devlin told employees that 30 per cent less Canadian students person enrolled successful full-time programs for this coming year. Due to planetary pupil licence cuts, determination would beryllium 63 per cent less planetary students attending. 

Fanshawe's planetary pupil colonisation has been among the highest successful Ontario, with roughly 11,700 permits approved for the assemblage successful 2023.

That fig was precocious chopped by much than fractional aft the national government reduced the fig of pupil visas it would springiness out. International students wage astir treble the tuition outgo that home students do. 

Algonquin, Centennial, Mohawk, Northern, Sheridan and St. Lawrence colleges each precocious announced programme suspensions and layoffs owed to the licence cap, which is expected to cost Ontario colleges billions successful mislaid revenue.

Devlin said employees could expect to larn much astir the layoffs by mid-June. 

More to come.