NEWS
Saturday, August 23, 2003
... "The University of Illinois has canceled 1,000 classes on hundreds of subjects this year. Up to 1,000 students at the University of North Carolina will be shut out of beginning Spanish. The University of Colorado has eliminated academic programs in journalism, business and engineering. The University of California has put off opening an entire campus.Virginia Tech is scrapping an education major and suspending mandatory history classes because it does not have enough professors to lead them. The University of Nebraska is canceling Portuguese, closing agricultural research laboratories and off-site classrooms, shedding exercise science, paring down Russian and museum studies. Rutgers is pruning the arts and sciences.
The University of Missouri has reduced the number of class time slots across the board, cut its teacher training program in half, eliminated a nursing degree and trimmed international studies. The University of Michigan will nearly double the size of some classes, shorten library hours and offer fewer freshman seminars. At the California State University, up to 30,000 students will be turned away come spring." ...
> From NYTimes: "As state colleges trim classes, students struggle to finish" Although, as usual it's a mixed bag - the library just announced they will be upgrading the photocopiers in every U-M Library.
Posted by Rob at 2:41 PM
