Faculty members at Loyola University's largest college overwhelming voted no confidence in its president and chief academic officer, but the school's governing board of trustees said it stands behind the Rev. Kevin Wildes and the radical restructuring his administration engineered last year.

Faculty in Loyola's College of Humanities and Natural Sciences on Tuesday passed a resolution of no confidence in Wildes by a margin of 61-19. They passed a similar motion of no confidence in Provost Walter Harris by a wider margin of 70-10.

Their discontent with Wildes has spilled into the current academic year, months after the trustees approved a Wildes plan to reorganize the university into new colleges, cut 17 tenure or tenure-track jobs and eliminate 14 majors, including those with a long local heritage, like education and broadcast journalism.

The administration said the changes were required to stave off a post-Katrina deficit variously reported at $10 million to $15 million, and to position Loyola to survive with fewer students for the forseeable future.

But faculty critics protested from the very beginning. They said faculty had little input in the planning and almost no time to comment on the plan, which was released just a few weeks before being submitted to the trustees. They also questioned the accuracy of data behind decisions to lop off programs.

Tuesday's vote was confined to faculty in the new college of Humanities and Natural Sciences, where much of the downsizing was most deeply felt. The college is one of the university's five colleges, but contains slightly more than half its 202 faculty members, according to university figures.

Several faculty, including some who opposed Wildes, said they did not think the no-confidence vote was part of a larger strategy to topple Wildes.

"I think we were just trying to get the attention of the trustees," said Thomas Spence, an associate professor of chemistry. "The faculty is not being listened to. We disagree with a lot of the decisions made..., and that's what we're trying to get them to understand."