Six months after news broke that the New School was offering voluntary retirement and severance packages to large number of faculty and staff, the New York university has handed out layoff notices to around 15 percent of its employees. The layoffs, first reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education on Tuesday, affect 19 full-time faculty members, 10 of whom were tenured, with dozens more taking the early retirement or buyout offers. As part of the restructuring, the school will go from four colleges to two, has discontinued over a dozen academic programs, and paused most doctoral admissions. 30 faculty members were “re-homed” from discontinued programs to other departments. As previously reported in December by the New School Free Press, among those programs to be discontinued are its masters in Arts Management and Entreprenuership, while its liberal arts programs at the School of Public Engagement and at the Eugene Lang College will be merged. Related Articles In a statement to the Chronicle, the New School chapter of the American Association of University Professors called the layoffs …