Arizona State Cuts 40 Programs, May Close Two Campuses
Arizona State president Michael Crow outlined even more drastic measures the university will undertake—which include cutting academic programs and capping enrollment— to respond to $88 million in the most recent state budget cuts, the State Press reports. Two satellite campuses could be closed entirely. Arizona State is already eliminating 550 positions through attrition and layoffs and forcing its employees take unpaid leave for up to 15 days.
Other planned moves:
Four dozen academic programs will be shut down. Most of these program cuts will be concentrated in the flagship Tempe campus. Students currently enrolled in these programs will be able to complete their degree "within a reasonable amount of time that has yet to be determined."
The school will cap enrollment to an unspecified number. Applications will no longer be accepted after March 1, five months earlier than usual.
The AIMS scholarship program, a merit scholarship that covers tuition for incoming freshman, will be suspended.
The West and Polytechnic satellite campuses could potentially be closed in fiscal year 2010.
For now, the program offerings at each college will either be eliminated or severely disrupted and rearranged. A truncated list of the changes, by campus (full list):
Polytechnic:
- The College of Technology and Innovation will become the only college.
- The School of Applied Arts and Sciences will be disbanded.
- The nutrition and exercise and wellness programs will become part of the College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation on the Downtown campus.
- Arts classes on the campus will be administered by the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts (Tempe campus), humanities will be administered by the School of Letters and Sciences (Downtown campus) and social science and science programs will be administered by the College of Technology and Innovation.
- The Morrison School of Management and Agribusiness will merge with and operate as part of the W. P. Carey School of Business.
- The fire service management program will close.
- The nursing program will be moved to the Downtown campus.
West:
- No graduate degree programs will be offered.
- The New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences will be the only college, and the campus' name will be changed.
- The nursing program will be moved to the Downtown campus.
- The College of Teacher Education and Leadership will move Downtown, although undergraduate courses will continue to be taught on the West campus.
- The School of Social Work will move to the Downtown campus and merge with the program there.
Tempe:
The Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering will reorganize and consolidate its programs, reducing the number of departments from 10 to 6.
The Clinical Laboratory Sciences program will be closed.
The W. P. Carey School's MBA sports business specialization will close.
The following are small sample of programs that have stopped accepting applications and have begun shuttering operations:
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- M.S. Kinesiology
- Master of Natural Sciences concentrations in natural science, life sciences geology and speech and hearing
Herberger College of the Arts
- Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art
- M.A. Music and Music Theory
Mary Lou Fulton College of Education
- Ed. D. and Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction
- Professional Studies
College of Technology & Innovation
- M.S. Tech. Electrical Engineering Technology concentrations including Instrument and Measurement Technology and Microelectronics
- M.S, Tech Mechanical and Manufacturing Tech concentrations including Aeronautical Engineering Technology, Security Engineering Technology, and Information Management Technology
- 15 other B.A.S. concentrations including fire service management, digital publishing, software technology applications, and semiconductor technology
Morrison School of Management and Agribusiness
- B.S. in agribusiness with concentrations in golf and facilities management and professional golf management
New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
- Masters of arts in interdisciplinary studies
- M.A. in communication studies
- M.A. in social justice and human rights
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Michael Crow
Emperor Crow has devastated ASU. He has been concerned with creating campuses all over the Valley of the Sun rather than caretaking the major campus in Tempe and the business college on the west side of the valley. (His scheme of one university many places). He has decided that older buildings must be torn down and replaced rather than modernized. (He had a list of over 100 buildings he wanted demolished). He has tried to get the state consititution cahnged several times to meet his whims. Now that the legislature has denied him a billion dollar building program (the state budget is over 1.5 billion in the red) he is threatening draconian cuts. He has embarked on a building spree in downtown Phoenix for the nursing school, however the students then must travel to Tempe to get core classes. And don't even start talking about the land deal along Tempe Town Lake... We need Lattie Coor back.
Ditch Crow; then reorganize
Take an anonymous survey of the faculty and Ph.D-level grad students and the effect Crow has had will become clear.
Any independent auditor can find where the money is or has gone.
As a nation we experienced alleged leaders whose leadership consists of "it's my way or the highway. Why would that be acceptable at ASU? We also saw how the nation's finances were ruined. Legislators and their staff are right on the scene. Why not find out what Crow's been doing under your noses?
Michael Crow
Michael Crow is the problem, not the solution at ASU. The university has plenty of money. He wastes it on frivolous items like the installation of granite and marble flooring in a new downtown campus building that looks more like a mausoleum instead of a state funded campus. Crow invites serious litigation by systematically denying tenure to African Americans and granting it to whites. He refuses to settle EEOC cases that profesors win. He carried his bigotry from Columbia to ASU and the taxpayers are stuck with the burden. Crow was a major player in the long running discrimination case of Chichilnisky vs Columbia which settled after sixteen years. Crow was vice provost at Columbia before ASU. Arizona cannot afford Michael Crow or his brand of bigotry. I am glad the state finally has a fiscally responsible legislature. The sky won't fall just because Crow says it will.
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