Tag: budget cuts
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Philosophy at Dundee Saved—In Part, For Now (guest post)
“A small programme with a large international reach has bucked the trend of closures across the arts and humanities.”
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University of Wyoming to Drop Philosophy Major
As for Fall 2027, incoming students at the University of Wyoming will no longer be allowed to major in philosophy.
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Exeter’s Executive Board Proposes Massive Cuts; Petition Launched
The Executive Board of the University of Exeter has proposed cutting around 150 staff roles, reports the BBC, with with 115 of them in…
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Petition Against Dundee University Plan to Cut Philosophy Degree
“The University of Dundee has announced it plans to cease offering Philosophy as a named degree from 2027. This news has come as a…
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Petition to Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
Administrators at the University of Hertfordshire are eliminating not just philosophy (as reported last week) from the school, but also undergraduate programs in English…
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Hertfordshire to Eliminate Philosophy from Its Curriculum
In a couple of years, students at the University of Hertfordshire will be unable to take a philosophy course there.
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Georgetown Philosophy Suspends PhD Admissions for Fall 2026
The Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University will not be accepting any PhD students for the 2026-2027 academic year.
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Portland State Ordered To Reinstate Laid-Off Philosophy Faculty & Others
“Administrators who claim that their university is under financial distress must not be given carte blanche,” wrote members of the Department of Philosophy at Portland…
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Philosophy in College Beyond the Philosophy Major
It’s not just budget cuts that are leading some colleges and universities to get rid of their philosophy major programs. Sometimes its legislation.
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Harvard Cuts PhD Admissions
Harvard University is drastically cutting the number of PhD students it is admitting over the next two years.
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Monmouth College Eliminating Its Philosophy Major
The President of Monmouth College, a private liberal arts college in Illinois, has recently announced that students at the school will no longer be…
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Philosophy at Some Indiana Public Universities Threatened
The Indiana state legislature has passed a budget bill that will have the effect of closing programs at several public universities in the state,…
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USC Tells Philosophy Department It Cannot Honor All of Its Offers of Admission This Year
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Southern California (USC), like many departments, sends out offers of admission to its PhD program to…
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Philosophers in Administrative Positions
(Moving this to the top again; first published on April 18th, 2024). A few months ago during a discussion here about the demand for…
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Kingston Plans to Close Its Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy
The administration of Kingston University has announced plans to close its Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP).
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Cuts to Philosophy Are Part of Massive Layoffs at St. Norbert College
“The problem is, the administration keeps coming back for more, and more, and more, and it never stops.”
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Moratorium on Philosophy & Other Programs at the University of Puerto Rico
The president of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Luis Ferrao Delgado, has temporarily shuttered undergraduate major programs in 64 fields, including philosophy, across…
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Philosophy Major and Department at Risk in Sonoma State Budget Bloodbath (updated)
The philosophy major at Sonoma State University is among several degree programs slated for elimination at Sonoma State University, and the philosophy department is…
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Philosophy Departments Under Threat: Information, Pro-Active Strategies, Defense
-[Temporarily moved to the top of the page (again), as the issues discussed are still with us. Originally published in October, 2020.]- Many philosophy…