Today UA's Board of Trustees approved President Nemer's recommendations related to the proposed retrenchment process. It sounds like retrenchment will hopefully not be happening thanks to alternative cost-cutting measures and voluntary resignations. (It's important, however, to mention that faculty voluntary resigned, likely under pressure, in order to help protect other faculty and their departments from the retrenchment process.)

https://www.uakron.edu/im/news/president-nemer-gives-perspective-on-today-s-special-board-meeting

https://www.uakron.edu/president/news-and-messages/nemer-retrenchment-recommendations-BOT.pdf

I copied the section of the recommendations pertaining to SPSPE below. 

President recommendation:

• No retrenchment in SPSPE at this time
• To better mirror the policies and practices of R-1 institutions, as self-described by
SPSPE, reassign workload, update workload requirements and implement a
research support buy-out policy.
• The University will explore the Frontier Fund and task the Office of Research
Administration (ORA) to identify and develop more opportunities in conjunction
with the Polymer Innovation Hub.
• Together, the Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) and the SPSPE will explore
alternative structures that will best support pathways for new and expanded
research activity

Hopefully this is good news and this will be the last update you hear on this topic. Fingers crossed.