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The majors that were dropped accounted for less than 100 students.
It was 22 BA/S, 20 minors and 16 graduate programs. The programs cut represented less than 2% of the degrees awarded at UNI. The list can be found here: http://www.iowaregents.edu/media/cms...dfF33AB662.pdf
It was programs such as:
BS Applied Phsyics
BA Physics (The BS program was saved...yep, we had a BA and BS program in it)
BA Microbiology
Most of the "emphasis" majors in Geology and Geography. The majors still exist but now there isn't 7 "emphasis" degrees.
The world languages - french, teaching French, German, teaching German, Russian. These program still exist as certificates.
The MA programs there were cut were much the same. Though the STEM programs were hit hard here.
Sadly, what happened in the BOR approved stripping our science department.
The link also shows how few students were in that specific area of emphasis in the major and how few were graduating. We are talking able to count on two hands the number of students from each program and one hand for graduates from each.
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So yes, the headlines of "UNI CUTS 60 PROGRAMS ALONG WITH CLOSING THE LAB SCHOOL" did a lot, and I mean a lot, of damage across the state. The true negative impact of going "You can still get your biology major, it just won't have "such and such" emphasis attached to it" is minimal. The impact of those headlines, plus the attempted censure by the faculty, plus the ISU/Iowa lobbyist taking full advantage of that? Immense.
As I mentioned, you can see the immediate impact. At the start of that year there were 13,100. Fall enrollment, just 6 months after all of this, was 900 students less.
It's now been 5 classes. We have a new president with a directive to grow the university. We have 4 straight freshman classes bigger than the last. We have the largest freshman class on campus since 2008. We have a chance, though it will take a ton of work, to grow back to 14,000+. We HAVE to get over 14,000. To be involved like a conference like the MAC we need to be about double the size we are. The smallest MAC school is 18,700. The average is is about 25K. Strides MUST be taken to get to 15,000 or 16,000 at a minimum.
Heck, look at our conference mates that are public schools in the MVC
MSU 25K
ISUR 21K
SIU 16K
WSU 15K
ISUB 14K
Add in the MVFC and we are the second smallest school, a head of only the University of South Dakota - and all of the Dakota schools are growing at an astonishing rate.
The decision to scale back to the scale that Koob made was short sided. It's 2017 and we have made significant improvements to on campus housing options, and have more off campus options. We have to make a push to get back to 14,000+.
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It was 22 BA/S, 20 minors and 16 graduate programs. The programs cut represented less than 2% of the degrees awarded at UNI. The list can be found here: http://www.iowaregents.edu/media/cms...dfF33AB662.pdf
It was programs such as:
BS Applied Phsyics
BA Physics (The BS program was saved...yep, we had a BA and BS program in it)
BA Microbiology
Most of the "emphasis" majors in Geology and Geography. The majors still exist but now there isn't 7 "emphasis" degrees.
The world languages - french, teaching French, German, teaching German, Russian. These program still exist as certificates.
The MA programs there were cut were much the same. Though the STEM programs were hit hard here.
Sadly, what happened in the BOR approved stripping our science department.
The link also shows how few students were in that specific area of emphasis in the major and how few were graduating. We are talking able to count on two hands the number of students from each program and one hand for graduates from each.
.
So yes, the headlines of "UNI CUTS 60 PROGRAMS ALONG WITH CLOSING THE LAB SCHOOL" did a lot, and I mean a lot, of damage across the state. The true negative impact of going "You can still get your biology major, it just won't have "such and such" emphasis attached to it" is minimal. The impact of those headlines, plus the attempted censure by the faculty, plus the ISU/Iowa lobbyist taking full advantage of that? Immense.
As I mentioned, you can see the immediate impact. At the start of that year there were 13,100. Fall enrollment, just 6 months after all of this, was 900 students less.
It's now been 5 classes. We have a new president with a directive to grow the university. We have 4 straight freshman classes bigger than the last. We have the largest freshman class on campus since 2008. We have a chance, though it will take a ton of work, to grow back to 14,000+. We HAVE to get over 14,000. To be involved like a conference like the MAC we need to be about double the size we are. The smallest MAC school is 18,700. The average is is about 25K. Strides MUST be taken to get to 15,000 or 16,000 at a minimum.
Heck, look at our conference mates that are public schools in the MVC
MSU 25K
ISUR 21K
SIU 16K
WSU 15K
ISUB 14K
Add in the MVFC and we are the second smallest school, a head of only the University of South Dakota - and all of the Dakota schools are growing at an astonishing rate.
The decision to scale back to the scale that Koob made was short sided. It's 2017 and we have made significant improvements to on campus housing options, and have more off campus options. We have to make a push to get back to 14,000+.
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