Laurentian University Files For Bankruptcy Despite Record-Breaking Double Digit Class Sizes

By Scott Slute

Sudbury - Laurentian University made headlines this week after laying off hundreds of professors, cutting nearly 70 programs, and filling for creditor protection, a first in the province. All this despite Laurentian reporting record breaking class sizes for the 2020/21 school year, with some 101-level classes seeing class sizes of nearly 27 students.

The increased student attendance at Laurentian is believed to be a result of the school’s shift to online learning due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. With students not actually having to live in Sudbury to attend the Laurentian, enrolment was at an all time high. Unfortunately the years the school spent as the second reason people would want to go to Sudbury, living in the [literal] shadow of a giant nickel, has caught up to them and resulted in devastating financial losses.

Members of the student body claim to feel embarrassment and shame about attending Laurentian, wearing clothes with Laurentian’s logo, and wondering if their degree would be respectable, and that was from a poll conducted months before all the financial problems surfaced publicly.

In n effort to shed the image of being in Sudbury, Laurentian is reportedly in talks to be absorbed by Trump University and go entirely online for the 2021/22 school year.

Scott Slute is the Editor in Chief at The Toronto Harold