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Alan Swank
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Posted: 10/10/2023 11:18 AM
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Posted: 10/10/2023 11:51 AM
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Alan Swank wrote:expand_more
If you can't get 35 students in a major in 4 years, what are you doing having a stand alone major in the first place? It's like having 12 High schools in Scioto County, or 5 in Athens County, it's a lot of redundancy in services, and I am sure they can spend money more wisely. Just my $.02
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Posted: 10/10/2023 1:53 PM
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BillyTheCat wrote:expand_more
https://www.fox19.com/2023/10/09/miami-university-conside... /
If you can't get 35 students in a major in 4 years, what are you doing having a stand alone major in the first place? It's like having 12 High schools in Scioto County, or 5 in Athens County, it's a lot of redundancy in services, and I am sure they can spend money more wisely. Just my $.02
I wonder if instead of cutting those majors, I wonder if thought was given to cutting athletics programs with only a small number of participants.
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Posted: 10/10/2023 3:18 PM
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Mike Johnson wrote:expand_more
https://www.fox19.com/2023/10/09/miami-university-conside... /
If you can't get 35 students in a major in 4 years, what are you doing having a stand alone major in the first place? It's like having 12 High schools in Scioto County, or 5 in Athens County, it's a lot of redundancy in services, and I am sure they can spend money more wisely. Just my $.02
I wonder if instead of cutting those majors, I wonder if thought was given to cutting athletics programs with only a small number of participants.
Yeah, I'd cut a sport like synchronized skating, which has 42 student athletes and no scholarships. That sport is bringing in more tution monies than those majors that are seeing 35 kids in 4 years!
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Posted: 10/10/2023 3:30 PM
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What is Miami trying to do having area studies centers and majors? I'm all for a strong commitment to the basic liberal arts departments at all levels of higher education, but when you're talking about things like Russian & East European Studies, you only really have a chance to be successful and attract corporate and government recruiters if you have AAU type resources to put behind them. Here's a list of the designated "National Resource Centers" and there aren't a lot of schools like Miami on it. Did Miami just think putting them out there and saying "public ivy" a thousand times would bring the World Bank or CIA to campus?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Resource_Center
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