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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. ” That is, undergraduate programs with fewer than 12 students per full-time faculty member over a period of five years are no longer accepting new students.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Faculty members at the College of William & Mary are concerned that the institution is purposely excluding them from conversations about the future. Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school.

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Why did Allegheny cut its Chinese program?

Inside Higher Ed

million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. ” Shi continued, “I wasn’t interviewed or consulted by the president or the provost throughout [the] process, or ever, actually.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass., The dean of the Becker School reports administratively to the provost office and is subject to all the normal graduate and undergraduate governance review boards, while the school itself has a designated faculty and its own academic leadership.

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Why Implementing a Richer, More Robust Academic Experience Is So Hard

Inside Higher Ed

Most faculty prefer to teach courses squarely within their discipline and preferably in their area of specialization. This discipline- and faculty-centric approach discourages the kind of collaboration across departmental lines that is needed to create more synergistic, coherent or integrated degree pathways.