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that says the campus, as well as University of the District of Columbia, are gutting academics to solve budget problems:

The article is referring to Moorhead's attempts to close a $5 million budget shortfall.

Campus officials have identified 18 programs that could face the largest cuts.

Faculty union leader Ted Gracyk says the administration is looking at the cost and enrollment trends for those programs, as well as their role at the university:

Among those on the list are theater arts, philosophy and American multicultural studies. (You can 

President Edna Mora Szymanski said years of declining enrollment and state funding caused the shortfall.

She said some programs have faced larger enrollment drops than others.

Gracyk says faculty members expect to learn Dec. 5 what the cuts will be.

Meanwhile, MSU-Moorhead spokesman David Wahlberg wrote me about the Slate article:

Gracyk also said that given that faculty helped come up with the measuring system, he expects administrators to make some "intelligent decisions" in the face of a bad situation.

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Minnesota State University – Moorhead officials are taking issue with a Slate article that says the campus, as well as University of the District of Columbia, are gutting academics to solve budget problems: Soon these regional public universities may have no departments of English, physics, or history—nor a host of other programs often associated with 

Minnesota State University – Moorhead officials are taking issue with a Slate article that says the campus, as well as University of the District of Columbia, are gutting academics to solve budget problems: Soon these regional public universities may have no departments of English, physics, or history—nor a host of other programs often associated with Read more →


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