Photo from IHE article. Not sure where this is.
Inside Higher Ed ran a column yesterday on a plan to overhaul a hypothetical small college. In “The State of St. Bridget’s, July 2017” Aden Hayes describes this plan in detail, including a queen sacrifice move.
These are putatively “fundamental changes”, also known as “streamlining”. They include a variety of practical steps to save and/or generate money: outsourcing some operations; selling a campus building; entering a purchasing co-op with other campuses; going after adult learners; going after online students; joining a library consortium. I note the canny shift of overseas attention from Britain to China.
The queen sacrifice, cutting academics, is also here.
We have closed two academic programs that had been underenrolled for years — including the interdisciplinary program in Northeast Studies, which competed directly with a similar program at the nearby state university. Three departments had their…
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