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Ten employees at MacEwan University, including the director of student financial aid, were notified on Wednesday their positions will be eliminated at the end of January in the wake of deep provincial funding cuts to post-secondary.

“This was an extremely difficult decision,” said acting president John McGrath in a Thursday emailed statement. “The position reductions are a necessary measure that we must take toward balancing this year’s budget and as we prepare to balance our 2020/21 budget.”

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The 10 eliminated positions were in IT and human resources, teaching and learning services, and academic and student affairs, among others, said MacEwan spokeswoman Samantha Power.

The UCP’s first budget in October saw MacEwan’s provincial grant slashed by $9.1 million — or 7.9 per cent — tying it with Bow Valley College for the largest proportion of funding cut from any institution in the province.