Expecting a budget shortfall of $9 million for the 2006-07 school year, Loyola administrators today proposed a major restructuring of the university.
The plan, to be formally presented at the Board of Trustees’ meeting on May 19, would suspend and eliminate 27 undergraduate and graduate programs beginning in the fall. Seventeen tenured and tenure-track faculty members would also be let go. Comments from university members – students and faculty – will be accepted until April 19 on Loyola’s Web site, according to a press release from the university.
Wow. They are losing two of the programs that they are known for in the city: Music and Broadcast Journalism.
Losing the Journalism program is huge. So is losing the Masters program in education.
And the computer science program too. Tulane also closed their computer science program. I guess UNO can pick up the slack? Do they even have a CS program?
Way to look towards the future, Tulane and Loyola. I guess they don’t see a need in New Orleans for computer science, as we will be in the dark ages for awhile.
I just don’t understand any of this. The public schools in New Orleans are the worst in the nation and now we are cutting the Education program.
I agree with you about the communication/journalism programs. This is another sad day for New Orleans.
I’ve heard folks saying that broadcast communications and computer science are very expensive majors to have, since they are so dependent on hardware and equipment. You have to have the latest hardware, and there’s no real return on the investment, since once the stuff is outdated, its useless. With lab equipment for the sciences, you can get a return on your equipment by using it for grants and research.
I’ll be starting at Tulane Law in August.
The Law school is supposedly the only part of the school that hasn’t seen a cutback in anything except enrollment, but even there they didn’t drop funding.
The women’s (liberal arts) college has been folded into the rest of the unversity.
Almost all of Engineering is gone.
Congrats!
Tulane is going to be in bad shape soon. Well, they are in bad shape now. But it will get worse. They won’t be able to hold on to their NCAA Division I sports rating for much longer. And once football goes, so does the money.