University of New Orleans announces layoffs and building closure [Video]

Massive cuts, layoffs and building closures are in store for the University of New Orleans.More than 70 jobs will be eliminated by the university for the upcoming year.This layoff comes after a historic downsize in enrollment, where 17,000 students once attended the school, and now that number is just over 6,000.The gap between the tuition revenue from the current student population and budget expenses has gotten too large to ignore.An incoming transfer student from Miami, she said she enrolled at UNO for the one-on-one attention she thought she would get at the university due to its small classroom size, and now, she’s not so sure if she’ll get that luxury.”With a lot of layoffs, there’s going to be bigger classrooms. And with bigger classrooms comes more disconnection, comes more, you know, distractions,” said Christina Roque.President of the University of New Orleans, Kathy Johnson, says the quality of learning is always …