In order to address a $16 million deficit, the University of Akron is phasing out 20 percent of the school’s degree programs. Surprisingly, no faculty or staff will lose their jobs in the process, so there will be no objections internally. All the programs selected for termination were low enrollment, with about 965 students currently pursuing degrees in these areas.
According the Chronicle of Higher Education the cuts will free up about $6 million and allow the school to continue to offer its students “eSports” (video game competitions).
The programs chosen for elimination, Here
80 degrees is too high, IMHO. 78 degrees is more comfortable for me.
A quick scan of the terminated studies show no wymens studies, LGBYLMNOP studies, or advanced macrame etc. that will be done with. Just hard science. OK then.
What’s it matter? They teach/indoctrinate 180° in the wrong direction anyways.
Will give the professors more time for activism and indoctrination.
By the time Lebron’s kids get there, they might have nothing to aspire to outside of a degree in Basketball Appreciation or Video Gaming with a specialization in Paystion, Xbox, Desktop/Laptop or Handheld.
Do they have Bernie Sanders wife on the staff?
@organgrinder, the previous administration sure behaved like Jane Sanders. If you read the article linked at the $16 mil. debt, you’ll see they were in way deeper than that before the President was removed. They had to cut a lot more than academic programs to get to the debt down to $16 mil, including the baseball team.
They keep blaming all their woes on low enrollment. It makes me wonder if this is the first indication that the education bubble is near bursting.
Cut some faculty and staff, they could make up most of that $16mil.
I had hoped it would be the brainless, worthless degrees but they’re engineering, hard sciences, health care, education. Looks like another college that’s a hollow shell.
@Vietvet – it’s the humidity that’s getting to me. 🙂
Looking through the list it’s a mix, but such a specific major as Fashion Merchandising/Fiber Arts suggests that they may just be making some majors a bit more general. Which would explain the lack of layoffs.
What, no degrees in underwater BB stacking. That must’ve gone out with OJ Simpson.