Purdue University May Cut Dozens of ‘Low-Enrollment Programs’
“Any potential decisions would follow in accordance with that future list by the end of the 2025-26 academic year”
There is a lot of this going around right now. Schools are going to have to figure out how to make due with less funds.
The College Fix reports:
Dozens of ‘low-enrollment programs’ at Purdue could be cut
Purdue University could cut dozens of “low-enrollment programs” to comply with state law in the coming years, according to reports.
Current law requires public universities to cut smaller programs unless they obtain a waiver. The threshold is typically 10 students in an associate degree program and 15 in a bachelor’s program, with graduate programs given more leeway – doctorate programs must have at least three students, according to various analyses.
However, the university said a list circulated by the campus newspaper is “outdated.” The public university said a list of potential programs under scrutiny will not be ready until the next of this upcoming school year.
“Any potential decisions would follow in accordance with that future list by the end of the 2025-26 academic year,” a June 10 news release shared with The College Fix stated. “Lists recently shared by the media are not accurate.
Purdue also said there will be “no immediate program changes” and students would be allowed to finish their degree. The Big Ten university in West Lafayette, In. said programs could also be merged.
Many of the degrees that were listed by the student newspaper as being on the “chopping block” fall under the School of Languages and Cultures. Jen William, the head of the school, gave similar responses to The Fix as provided by the university.
“Actually there are no plans for languages to be cut at Purdue, although the degrees might take a slightly different form in future,” William wrote in an email. “All students will be able to finish their language degrees and there are no plans to cut faculty.”
She said “due to the new state legislation, we need a way of reporting our number of language majors and number of degrees completed, which has remained stable in recent years, in aggregate rather than as separate degree programs.”
William also said her school “remains strong.”
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Just cut. Cut the programs. Cut the faculty. Cut the studies programs. Cut Cut Cut until it hurts and then cut some more!
If many of the degrees potentially on the chopping were listed in the student newspaper how about some of them in the story?