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March is the cruelest month: more academic cuts and closures
Some days I feel like I’m live-blogging my new book across a bunch of web browser tabs. That is, I’m working on Peak Higher Education in several web browsers across three machines, with tabs open to Google Docs, an RSS reader, a few pdfs, a library ebook, and more. Meanwhile, other browser tabs provide grim updates about colleges and universities cutting programs, merging, cutting staff, facing bad financial problems, or shutting down. I share these stories across still other browser tabs: social media platforms, email… and this blog.
I have other things to blog about (currently on deck: podcasting, demographics, video vs text, my great choice for the future idea) but these campus stories keep coming and I want to treat them both seriously and in a timely manner. I wrote one post on this topic a few weeks ago and thought it would surely cover cuts and closures for February and March. That post took some time to write as news kept coming. After the post went up more stories appeared, shared with me privately and publicly, so I assembled those into another post. Since then still more stories have crossed my radar, so many that Inside Higher Ed ran a column about how individual academics can prepare for being downsized. It seems March isn’t done with academia yet, and so here we are.
Here’s the latest, organized by my earlier headers.
