In what university officials acknowledge will be deeply unpopular cuts, Emporia State University will begin a process of sweeping changes to the university’s program offerings after receiving the all-clear from the Kansas Board of Regents.
The Regents on Wednesday unanimously approved a proposal, presented by Emporia State University President Ken Hush, that will allow the university to suspend its regular program review process and discontinue some majors, and lay off otherwise protected, tenured faculty.
Hush told the Regents that years of a status-quo mentality toward falling enrollment and declining revenue, in which budget cuts had been applied uniformly across the campus, have put the university on a path toward a financial crisis by 1,000 cuts.
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