Faculty group decries history program cuts Says state focus on science studies hurting courses
By Dave O’Brien
Record-Courier staff writer
September 11, 2007
Kent State University’s Faculty Senate overwhelmingly passed two resolutions Monday decrying a suggested reallocation of graduate studies funding that could doom the university’s history doctoral program, supporters say.
Both measures urged university president Lester Lefton, provost Robert Frank and Dr. John West, vice president for research and dean of graduate studies, to fight what critics say is a Gov. Bob Taft-era mandate from the state to put more money into funding graduate studies in the sciences at the expense of a true liberal arts education.
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On Monday, faculty senator Robert Twieg, a chemistry professor, held up what he called a “doctoral program hit list” of programs that would suffer from cuts in funding.
Jerry Feezel, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said “there was never a proposal to eliminate the history doctoral program” and if there was, it was the first he had heard of it.
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