Charles Sturt University will "redesign its schools structure" this year in a continued effort to balance its budget.
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The changes will result in 16 full-time equivalent jobs being lost, the university has revealed.
CSU hopes to return to a balanced budget by the end of 2021 after the pandemic forced a forecast deficit of $49.5 million.
The university confirmed it would "reduce the overall number of schools by forming eight new consolidated schools".
Up to 17 of the current 26 schools across the university's campuses will be amalgamated. It is expected to remove 20 leadership roles within the schools. But a spokesperson for the university has said "nearly all" of the staff in these positions will remain in academic positions.
Those with roles that will be lost in the merging will be offered the chance to take "voluntary separation" packages, or will have priority when applying for other existing roles.
"It is important to emphasise that although we have had to reduce the number of positions, new roles have been created and there are also vacant roles, which impacted staff will have priority to apply for," said interim Vice-Chancellor Professor John Germov.
"We will continue to support all affected staff through this process, as we have throughout the Sustainable Futures program."
The changes have been announced ahead of the semester's start in March. A spokesperson for the university said it "does not envision any disruptions to student services".
Under the proposed arrangement, the information studies will be merged with the school of communication and creative industries. Accounting and finance will be merged with the school of management and marketing.
Computing and mathematics will be amalgamated with engineering. Agriculture and wine sciences, animal and veterinary sciences and environmental sciences will be rolled into the one school.
Exercise science, sport and health will be placed with community health. Rural medicine, dentistry and health sciences, and biomedical sciences will become one school.
The school of nursing, midwifery and Indigenous health will also now include the biomedical sciences paramedicine discipline. Meanwhile, another separate education studies school will be created.
When contacted a spokesperson for the National Tertiary Education Union at the Wagga campus of CSU said the union would be scrutinising the proposal to ensure its industrial compliance and would be "assisting the staff consultation process, particularly with regard to operational, educational and workload implications".