University of Toledo axing nine majors in response to controversial Ohio higher ed law

[Coventina]

The University of Toledo will stop offering nine undergraduate majors in response to Senate Bill 1, the controversial higher education overhaul legislation signed into law last month.

Africana Studies, Disability Studies, Philosophy, and Women’s and Gender Studies majors will all end, according to an April 21 news release. The university is also cutting Asian Studies, Data Analytics, Middle East Studies, Spanish and religion.

Senate Bill 1 calls for many changes to Ohio’s campuses, such as ending diversity, equity and inclusion (or DEI) programming. It also mandates cutting academic programs that graduate five or fewer students annually over any three-year span.

School officials specifically noted these cuts came in response to the new law. But they have not yet responded to Signal Ohio’s request to clarify whether the university eliminated these programs strictly because of low enrollment or if because content was deemed to be DEI-related.

https://signalcleveland.org/university-of-toledo-axing-nine-majors-response-ohio-sb1/

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Idiocracy is here!

Ohio and Florida racing to see who can become the dumbest state in the USA!

[Basso8vb]

1. So just be assholes instead....

[LonePirate]

2. Cutting data analytics is bizarre as there is significant demand for people with skills in this area.

Perhaps the field did not draw enough student interest to make it worthwhile for the college to offer it.

[Mister Ed]

5. And Spanish?

That's a tremendously important tool for people in a vast array of businesses.

[Deep State Witch]

3. Okay, I can see them cutting the liberal arts stuff

But Data Analytics?? That's a growing field of study, and graduates with that kind of degree are in high demand.

[spanone]

4. We are fucked when trmp is telling universities what to teach.

He doesn't know shit and that's a fact.