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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A potential problem at small schools can happen when one develops a specialized interest in a particular subject area for which no major or no courses are offered.

Many LACs publish faculty rosters and course offerings that are wildly inaccurate in order to give the appearance of having a variety of professors in each dept. and of offering a wide array of courses in each major.

One small LAC lost almost all of its econ profs suddenly, but the school's website falsely claimed to have over a dozen econ profs even though it really only had one or two.[/quote]

Yikes. That sounds like a rare event though. Perhaps it was a school that was on the verge of closure? Or the public one in Florida that the governor imposed all those curriculum changes at? Nothing like what you describe has occurred at our kid’s LAC. [/quote]

No, it is an SLAC based in New England.[/quote]
You are just boldly lying about the Bates college event. They had many profs leave the successive semester, but not "only had one or two." They rebuilt the department and could hire faculty at a whim. To be so bold in lying is what is astonishing.[/quote]

I am not the previous poster, but I do remember that incident at Bates, which was terrible - 4 Econ professors all quit abruptly and the Econ majors did not find out until July I think. For the seniors, it meant they could no longer write a senior thesis (the culmination of their 4 years) because there was not enough faculty to support them. I would have been horrified if I were one of those students or parents - you have to admit, it was devastating for that senior class. You could look it up in the school paper - they covered it well.

My dd is at a SLAC that she loves, but Bates was the least favorite of the ones we saw - it felt small and under-resourced and Lewiston is pretty grim. I love SLACs and find it a little annoying when people call them boarding schools, but tbh Bates did not even strike me as a nice as a boarding school.[/quote]

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