Portland State University is proposing a budget plan that would cut 52 jobs, according to a report on actions and reaction from faculty governance. The university’s American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapter criticized officials’ deficit projection and vowed to fight faculty layoffs. The dispute centers on a reported $35 million deficit projection and the consequences for academic staffing, with faculty leadership framing the layoffs as an immediate threat to program continuity and shared governance processes. The episode is another signal that campus budgeting—particularly where enrollment and research trajectories remain uneven—continues to translate quickly into staffing risk and intensified faculty-labor confrontation.