Trimming Liberal Arts Faculty

Liberal Arts Minus Liberal Arts Professors

Colleen Flaherty | October 29, 2015

Many liberal arts institutions across the U.S. are feeling the squeeze of declining enrollments, interest in career-related education and other factors affecting their bottom lines. So some colleges are taking drastic measures in programs cuts. But how much change is too much? Put another way, after program cut upon program cut, at what point does a liberal arts institution cease to be one?

Excerpted from https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A8CGbG_TYwbSS36jdyEzrjojUuuOybvfNm5woEvHjjw/edit

<more at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/29/wartburg-college-and-other-liberal-arts-institutions-make-drastic-cuts-challenging; related links: http://www.communitynewspapergroup.com/waverly_newspapers/news/article_e88cc400-76ae-11e5-b88d-87b9ef022b05.html (Wartburg Cuts Faculty. October 20, 2015) and https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A8CGbG_TYwbSS36jdyEzrjojUuuOybvfNm5woEvHjjw/edit (Wartburg Petition>