The University of Colorado has eliminated academic programs in journalism, business and engineering.
Last year, thousands of middle and high school students in Qinghai took to the streets in protest over proposals to eliminate academic instruction in Tibetan.
It would allow LSU to fire tenured faculty and eliminate academic programs.
The proposal would also broaden the power of administrators to eliminate academic positions and departments in the name of efficiency.
Do you really think our to-do list reads: dismantle tenure, eliminate academic freedom, turn professors into automatons?
The university, with about 4,500 students, declared a financial emergency this month to make it easier to fire tenured faculty, eliminate academic programs and take other extreme measures.
B3 SPORTSFRIDAY D1-10 OBITUARIES C15 WEEKEND E1-34; E35-46 ESCAPES F1-14 EDUCATulaneulane to Reopen Tulane University in New Orleans announced that it would reopen next month as a sharply scaled-back institution, coping with the effects of Hurricane Katrina by laying off more than 200 faculty members, eliminating some academic programs and carrying half as many varsity sports teams.
Despite growing pressure to improve retention, graduation rates, employment at graduation, and respond to heightened state and federal regulatory demands -- all labor intensive additions to staff -- most looked to areas like eliminating underperforming academic programs, reducing administrative positions, and outsourcing administrative services, among other options.
But it has also increased student-teacher ratios and eliminated some academic programs, like industrial engineering and dance, even as enrollment has surged.
The next year she became a founding member of the avant-garde Judson Dance Theater group, with which she made dances that eliminated bravura, academic technique, acting and musicality, which were the hallmarks of modern dance developed by Martha Graham and others.
