The University of Idaho’s College of Art and Architecture is back in business, just four years after the university merged it with the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences to help save money, the Associated Press reports.
Alumni, students, and faculty and staff members had protested the 2002 merger, ordered by the university’s president at the time, Robert A. Hoover. The State Education Board decided to re-create the College of Art and Architecture last fall, and in April approved the university’s business plan to get the school up and running by this fall.
Officials say the college will have about 700 students.
