andrel's Journal: On the chopping block

The incompetents who run this university have released their latest list of programs to be eliminated. The press conference hasn't started yet, but I found the press release on the web early. Here's the list with my commentary:

• Extended university. (I've thought about teaching their GNU/Linux classes for the extra cash).
• Humanities program. (Not what you think.)
• School of landscape architecture. (Friend in the masters program.)
• School of planning.
• School of information resources and library science. (Friend in the MLS program.)
• School of health professions and medical technology program.
• Department of atmospheric sciences. (Anticipating this, the folks I know there have mostly already left.)
• Flandrau science center. (This is an interesting one. The current plan is to move it to the Rio Nuevo urban-renewal boondoggle downtown. The proposal is to only close Flandrau if the move fails. As I predicted, Rio Neuvo is already going down the crapper, and now the University has incentive to work against it.)
• Comparative cultural and literacy studies IDP.
• Undergraduate degree program in environmental hydrology and water resources. (Closing this is lunacy, but so is the rest of SE-AZ's water strategy.)
• PhD program in French.
• Masters program in Russian. (Know somebody there as well.)
• Institue for local government.
• Nuclear reactor lab. (Decommissioning the reactor can't be cheap.)
• Arizona cooperative extension office in Greenlee county.
• Marana ag center.

German survived this time; look for them to sink in the next round.

Already whacked:

• Arizona International College. (Friend there is in very good shape.)
• North central association office. (Some K-12 school accreditation thing, probably now handled by NAU or ASU.)
• Research support office. (Still unbelievable a year later.)
• American Indian graduate center. (Seems to still exist. They had a big party at homecoming.)

Notice football isn't first against the wall.

Of course public service is first against the wall

[LilituC]

I suspected it was going to happen to SIRLS. They've cut and cut an already tiny budget, consistently scheduled our classes in classrooms with blackboards and nothing else so that they had to be held in our conference room, etc. What gets me is how little money they're going to save by it. I know, I know, the ALA told them to spend more money. Still, it doesn't seem like much to me for a program that has so much benefit, if not rich alumni. Now I suppose people will have to go to California.