Ithaca College is making deep cuts to its faculty and staff for what they say is due to steadily declining enrollment.

The college put together a committee to study the numbers, and they've found that enrollment has dropped for 10 years running. It currently sits at 5,200, and they expect it to drop to about 5,000 moving forward.

Faculty, on the other hand, has increased over that same time. It's a formula that the college says is no longer sustainable.

Over the next three years, they're planning to eliminate 116 positions. About 69 of those are in-faculty positions, where non-tenure employees are going to lose their jobs. The rest are retirements and jobs lost through attrition.

Each department has been given a specific number of jobs they need to eliminate. In the end, the staff will drop from 542 to 426.