The Chronicle: Program Cuts Loom at 4 Public Universities
Financially strapped public colleges and universities are living in the shadow of the ax this semester, enduring a renewed stream of announcements of potential or actual faculty layoffs and program closures.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal: University removes engineering dean
College chief was critical of UNLV’s plans to eliminate programs
The dean of UNLV’s College of Engineering, whose programs are expected to be among the hardest hit in the next round of budget cuts, has been removed from his job and reassigned to the provost’s office, the university confirmed Monday.
Eric Sandgren took over as dean of the college in 2003. His contract, which pays him $193,596 a year, expires in June.
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The Chronicle: U. of Iowa Lists 14 Graduate Programs at Risk for Cuts or Elimination
Worried faculty members at the University of Iowa now have a report from a provost-appointed task force that names 14 graduate programs — half in the humanities — that could be restructured or eliminated as the university seeks to save money.
In a process that began last spring and triggered some angst among faculty members, the task force categorized the institution’s 111 graduate programs into five groups. The 14 programs are in a category called “additional evaluation required” and have “significant problems,” with no “viable plans for improvement,” the report says.
The programs the group said needed to be evaluated further are: American studies, M.A. and Ph.D.; Asian civilizations, M.A.; comparative literature, M.A. and Ph.D.; comparative literature (translation), M.A. and Ph.D.; film studies, M.A. and Ph.D.; German, M.A. and Ph.D.; linguistics, M.A. and Ph.D.; educational policy and leadership studies (educational administration), M.A., Ed.S., and Ph.D.; educational policy and leadership studies (social foundations of education), M.A. and Ph.D.; health and sport studies, M.A. and Ph.D.; teach and learn (elementary education), M.A. and Ph.D.; stomatology, M.S.; integrative physiology, Ph.D.; and exercise science, M.S.
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The Chronicle: When Tenured Professors Are Laid Off, What Recourse?
At Southern Mississippi, fights against program cuts are hampered by the lack of a formal process, professors find
If the University of Southern Mississippi seeks to fire a tenured faculty member for cause—that is, for allegedly sleeping with a student or some other malfeasance—that faculty member has recourse to a long sequence of hearings and appeals, spelled out in 48 paragraphs in the faculty handbook.
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Calif. budget crisis forces schools to slash programs, fire teachers, expand class sizes
Budget crisis forces deep cuts at Calif. schools
RICHMOND, Calif. — California’s historic budget crisis threatens to devastate a public education system that was once considered a national model but now ranks near the bottom in school funding and academic achievement.
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