![]() ![]() Have wondered whether the layoffs were necessary to begin with, as In the intervening years, though, the people involved Middlebury administrators in 1991 that the college needed to cutĬosts quickly. That population decline would give rise to reduced enrollment at U.S.Ĭolleges and universities influenced the prevailing belief among Black Tuesday set off a dramaticīacklash at Middlebury and eventually spurred the resignation of the Of a Chicago-based outplacement firm to manage the process wasĪnother major source of outrage. Many nearing retirement age - largely unawares. Shocking staff cuts that caught 17 people - 14 of whom were women, Headlines described a community reeling from a round of So abruptly and executed so negligently that they made national news Image of stability that had long characterized staff life at theĬollege shattered in the wake of these layoffs, which were announced Tuesday” and unknown to or forgotten by many more. Remembered bitterly by some in the Middlebury community as “Black This year as she pored through her self-made archive of this moment, Like this should be told,” Weems explained on a morning earlier Wasn’t just administrative fact it was a story. ![]() Grey-green, weathered shoebox kept on her bookshelf. Stacks of letters, news clippings and photographs, is tucked into a Middlebury College, her employer of 11 years. Weems’ makeshift diary recounts the days after Tuesday, May 14,ġ991, when she and 16 others were laid off in a round of job cuts at Pencil on lined notebook pages that have been stapled together, Period of her life: a two-day stretch in May of 1991. Weems, who is almost 90 years old, has kept a diary for one brief A series of disastrous layoffs at Middlebury College in 1991 sparked debates, demonstrations and concerns about the institution's future. ![]()
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