Article on job cuts at Walden University at http://www.news-press.com/biz/today/020420walden.html. Article says that job cuts are related to move of offices.
This seems a natural result of the synergies involved with one company acquiring another. Walden was originally located in Florida. They opened their academic offices in Minneapolis, IMHO, to get out from under SACS and under NCA--a much more liberal accrediting agency when it comes to DL. I'm surprised they've maintained any Florida operation at all. It appears they're absorbing some of the administration into other administrative activities conducted at Sylvan's corporate offices in Baltimore. Universities and businesses have been in bed together for decades. The difference here is that the business actually owns the university, instead of just pulling its (funding) strings. Notice that the Minneapolis academic operations are not affected.