Editorial: UA Board of Trustees Making Decisions Based on Their Own Interests, Not the Students’
By The Buchtelite Editorial Board
September 17, 2018
The Board of Trustees is not making decisions based on the interests of the students and faculty, but instead on trends that will ultimately destroy the credibility of The University of Akron. On Aug. 15, the board decided to phase out 80 “underperforming” academic programs, which were taken from ...
Analysis: Digging Deeper into the Report Behind the Cuts
By Megan Parker, Copy Editor
September 17, 2018
Since The University of Akron stated plans to phase out 80 programs based on the results of a year-long Academic Program Review, several questions have been raised regarding the results of the APR and their correlation with the programs cut. In attempts to answer those questions and bring attention to the true nature of how the APR R...
