Program Cuts & Closures

2019

• Cuts Leave Concerns for Liberal Arts at Tulsa (IHE 6/6/19)
• What Really Happened at Stanford University Press: an Insider’s Account (CHE 5/10/19)
• Stevens Point Abandons Controversial Plan to Cut Liberal Arts Majors Including History and Foreign Languages (IHE 4/11/19)
• Stanford University Press—And All It Stands For—Is In Peril. (Save SUP 4/19)
• To Help Students, Colleges Are Dropping Remedial Courses. Will That Backfire? (CHE 2/18/19)
• Wright State Cancels Courses, Looks for Replacement Instructors as Faculty Strike Continues (IHE 2/6/19)
• College of Theseus (Timothy Burke 1/24/19)
• Colleges Lose a ‘Stunning’ 651 Foreign-Language Programs in 3 Years (CHE 1/22/19)

2018

• Gender Studies Scholars Say the Field Is Coming Under Attack in Many Countries Around the Globe (IHE 12/5/18)
• More Faculty Unrest at U Wisconsin Stevens Point (IHE 11/30/18)
• UW Stevens Point Faculty Oppose Restructuring (Academe Blog 11/27/18)
• Goucher College Says It's Eliminating Liberal Arts Programs Such as Math, Physics and Religion, in Attempt to Keep Costs Down (IHE 8/17/18)
• U of Akron Cuts 80 Degree Tracks (IHE 8/16/18)
• Marylhurst Professors Oppose Closure (IHE 5/21/18)
• Open University Plans Major Cuts to Number of Staff and Courses (Guardian 3/21/18)
• A University of Wisconsin Campus Pushes Plan to Drop 13 Majors — Including English, History and Philosophy (Wa Po 3/21/18)
• Faculty Members at Wisconsin Stevens Point React to Plan to Cut 13 Majors (IHE 3/13/18)
• U. of Wisconsin at Stevens Point Proposes Cutting 13 Programs, Mostly in Liberal Arts (CHE 3/5/18)
• Kentucky Governor Seeks to Kill State's University Press (IHE 1/29/18)

2017

• No Longer Superior? (Academe Blog 11/4/17)
• Plan to Phase Out 2 Dozen Programs Stuns Faculty at Wisconsin-Superior (CHE 11/1/17)
• Wisconsin-Superior Will End 9 Majors (IHE 11/1/17)
• Mills College Lays Off Five Tenured Professors (Academe Blog 7/4/17)
• DeVos Is Discarding College Policies That New Evidence Shows Are Effective (NYT 6/30/17)
• Proposed Cuts to Humanities at SUNY Stony Brook (IHE 5/9/17)
• Long Island University, Citing Need to Attract Students, Orders Faculty To Trim Core Curriculum (IHE 4/3/17)
• American Authoritarianism and Academic Administration (Academe Blog 2/28/17)
• Virginia Intermont's Campus Sale Begs Questions of How Colleges Close Accounts (IHE 1/5/17)

2016

• UMass Labor Center Saved from Shutdown (Academe Blog 12/30/16)
• The Death of ITT Tech, Part One: What Happened? (Student Activism 9/6/16)
• U Mass Amherst Threatens to Close Labor Center (Talking Union 9/5/16)
• How Can an Increasingly Popular Academic Review Process Seem More Meaningful to Faculty Members? (IHE 8/16/16)
• Should an HBCU Founded by Black Civil War Veterans Shutter its History Department, Against the Recommendation of a Faculty Committee? (IHE 7/20/16)
• Questions Raised About Cuts in Liberal Arts Programs at Western Illinois (IHE 6/14/16)
• At Small Colleges, Harsh Lessons About Cash Flow (NYT 4/29/16)
• UC Berkeley’s Public Health Undergraduate Major Faces Potential Elimination (Daily Cal 2/29/16)
• President Wins an Award for Cutting Tenured Faculty Jobs (IHE 2/29/16)

2015

• Saint Rose Cuts 23 Faculty Jobs, 27 Programs (IHE 12/14/15)
• Saint Rose Faculty Informed of Cuts Friday (Times Union 12/11/15)
• As Degrees Are Cut, Critics Continue to Decry Dismantling of U. of North Carolina (CHE 5/27/15)

2014

• The Plight of the Public Regional College (CHE 11/19/14)
• 2 More Programs to Be Cut at U. of Southern Maine (CHE 10/27/14)
• Is Closing of Gender Studies Center a Coincidence? (IHE 5/14/14)
• Sudden Reprieve (IHE 4/14/14)
• Beyond Program Closings, a More Significant Menace (Philip Lewis 2/10/14)

2013

• Private Distress (IHE 12/9/13)
• Wither Pennsylvania (IHE 12/2/13)
• MSUM Considers Cuts in Tenured Faculty, Program Closures to Fix Projected $5 Million Deficit (In Forum 11/20/13)
• Battle Over Budget Cuts (IHE 11/20/13)
• Southern Oregon U. Takes Steps to Open Faculty Contract and Cut Programs (CHE 11/6/12)
• Anderson U. Ends French, Theater, Philosophy Majors (IHE 11/5/13)
• Area-Studies Centers Are Vital but Vulnerable (CHE 9/30/13)
• Mammoth 2-Year College to Lose Accreditation (IHE 7/5/13)
• Program Closures in Singapore Suggest 'Maturation' of Its Ambitions (CHE 5/24/13)
• Federal Cuts to Force Closure of Fusion Project at MIT (CHE 5/20/13)
• The Distress of Program Cuts (CHE 1/17/13)
• New AAUP Guidelines Call for Faculty Input in Program Closures and Layoffs (CHE 1/15/13)

2010

• Anticipating And Managing The Legal Risks Of Academic Program Closures (CUA 11/3/10)