Southern Oregon University will eliminate a German major, lay off five faculty members, and merge three schools into one, but will save three programs, in a budget-retrenchment plan that the president, Mary Cullinan, described as “a less painful approach than what we unveiled in January,” the Mail Tribune, a local newspaper, reported. Ms. Cullinan originally spoke in November of the need for sharp cutbacks to close a looming $4-million budget deficit that stemmed from falling enrollment, declining state support, and rising costs. Most of the cutbacks came out of academic programs.
March 14, 2007
Southern Oregon U. Cuts Academic Programs Sharply to Close Deficit
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