For the second time in three years, U-W Superior is dropping a sizable number of academic programs. The school said Tuesday that more than two dozen programs in sociology, political science, theater, and other areas will be suspended — which means they’ll end when current students complete them, and the suspensions will run for ten years before final decisions are made to shut the programs down. In 2014, the U-W’s smallest four year campus suspended a dozen programs and put 50 on review — and declining enrollments were blamed at the time along with budget deficits and Governor Scott Walker’s tuition freezes. A two-point-five million dollar budget deficit remains for this year, but online courses helped Superior increase its fall enrollment slightly to about 25-hundred. The Duluth News Tribune says faculty and students didn’t know the cuts were coming — and faculty and staffers were not involved in choosing the cuts like they were in 2014 because the process caused stress and low morale.
UW Superior Suspends Two Dozen Academic Programs
Nov 1, 2017 | 4:30 PM
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