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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They just announced they are cutting 20 majors. They’re not in good financial shape.[/quote]

This. They are this very minute in the process of eliminating a whole slew of programs. If your DC is interested in languages or the humanities, it's time to look elsewhere, and even if those aren't their preferred subjects, they're likely to find a demoralized faculty and greatly reduced liberal arts education. Once those programs are gone, they're not coming back in any recognizable form, since they'll lose faculty and they won't be making tenure-track hires in those areas, and they won't have cohorts of kids in those fields. Before this, I wouldn't have hesitated to recommend VT, but not under these circumstances. [/quote]

It's distressing. So much for a liberal arts education. It strikes me as extremely short sighted to cut humanities faculty and programs, including the Vermont Studies program at the flagship university. The university cut Classics, Religion (how do you understand politics without courses in religion?), Geology (in VT?!?), etc. Also, the administration seems to have cut these programs without faculty input. Sad all around.[/quote]

Bloated admin costs coming home to roost.  [/quote]

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