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Youngstown State limits adjunct hours | Inside Higher Ed
Youngstown State University is the second institution to be public about cutting adjuncts hours to avoid Affordable Care Act-related costs.
The Ohio university announced its plans in a campuswide memo Thursday, hours after an internal department memo from an English professor warning colleagues about the cuts was leaked to the media.
A provision under the [Affordable Care Act] requires employers to share in the responsibility of providing health insurance to full-time employees, the campus memo reads. Effective this academic year, part-time faculty will not be allowed to teach more than 24 hours over fall, spring and summer."
Youngstowns announcement comes just weeks after Community College of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania announced it was preemptively cutting hundreds of adjuncts hours to avoid an estimated $6 million in employee health care costs when the Affordable Care Acts employer mandate begins in January 2014.
Youngstown State limits adjunct hours | Inside Higher Ed