An administrator at University of North Carolina at Greensboro is stepping down to protest the way the public institution is going about eliminating 19 academic offerings. In a resignation letter made public, Charles Bolton, associate dean of UNCG’s College of Arts and Sciences and interim head of its anthropology department, accused university officials of not being transparent in how they determined which programs they plan to cut. UNCG is seeking to drop a range of undergraduate and graduate offerings, including bachelor’s degrees in anthropology and religious studies. Bolton accused Debbie Storrs, the university’s provost, of pressuring John Kiss, the College of Arts and Sciences’ dean, to add certain programs to the list of those up for elimination — despite them meeting administrators’ expectations. University spokesperson Kimberly Osborne did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.
