This week, the UNC Board of Governors decided to cut some of the majors offered by universities. To me, as a student of Appalachian State University, the move is reminiscent of the "program prioritization" initiative that our previous provost did last year.
That's not a good thing - and that is an understatement.
I, like many of my professors and classmates, find the culling of programs to be symptomatic of the neoliberal assault on higher education. It is even more distressing because so many of the programs cut are education majors, further illustrating the lack of commitment to quality education in this state, as if that was not already painfully clear given the pitifully salaries that public school teachers receive. Perhaps the cutting of education majors is merely the result of the cutting of the NC Teaching Fellows program.
That's not a good thing - and that is an understatement.
I, like many of my professors and classmates, find the culling of programs to be symptomatic of the neoliberal assault on higher education. It is even more distressing because so many of the programs cut are education majors, further illustrating the lack of commitment to quality education in this state, as if that was not already painfully clear given the pitifully salaries that public school teachers receive. Perhaps the cutting of education majors is merely the result of the cutting of the NC Teaching Fellows program.
Without properly educated and compensated teachers, North Carolina cannot hope to properly educate its children. Without universities receiving adequate funding that actually reaches professors and students, the university system cannot thrive or even continue in its present state.
Is the goal of the legislature and the Board of Governors to completely eradicate public education? I'm afraid that I'm not exaggerating when I make that claim.
http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2015/05/26/unc-board-of-governors-moves-to-discontinue-46-degree-programs-list-included/
Is the goal of the legislature and the Board of Governors to completely eradicate public education? I'm afraid that I'm not exaggerating when I make that claim.
http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2015/05/26/unc-board-of-governors-moves-to-discontinue-46-degree-programs-list-included/