Really not loving all the “well of course *regional publics* should be cutting humanities programs” language this news is bringing out.
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Equally as devastating when we lose programs, maybe even more, since our students just go home rather than go to Wash U.
aug 13, 2025, 7:11 pm • 5 0 • view
I have a history degree from Truman State. That department has lost 75% of its faculty since I graduated. I only know this because other alumni and faculty I'm still in touch with have pointed it out
aug 13, 2025, 7:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Truman is the model of how most of these cuts happen: don’t replace lines when people retire, cut their 75-80 enrollments each semester out of the department’s totals, use those “reduced” enrollments to justify not hiring, repeat until one day the program’s just gone.
aug 13, 2025, 7:21 pm • 2 0 • view