In Reply to: American Taliban won't be happy until... posted by CoastalBruin on August 24, 2025 at 14:47:25
This move from an educator's point of view is short-sighted, but it's not a MAGA move. The merging or elimination of majors is driven by enrollment numbers, not by topic.
This looks more like a cost-cutting policy. You can consolidate departments and not have professors who support only a handful of students. You also don't have specialized classes with low enrollment, which is a budget killer for colleges. Instead, you have all of the science majors taking the same classes, so they are full regardless of whether you are focused on chemistry, biology, or physics.
They look to be creating more general subject majors, which imo is a bad tactic from a workforce development strategy.
If they had made this move 10 years ago, they would have done away with AI as a graduate major where whereas now it is skill for the new economy.