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Philosophy at SUNY Potsdam Threatened (Again)

The president of SUNY Potsdam, Suzanne Smith, announced earlier this week a plan to eliminate 14 degree programs at the university, including philosophy, and cut an as-of-yet-unknown number of faculty. (more…)

ACU, Despite Citing University Finances as Reason for Cuts to Dianoia, Funds New Hires and Centers

Australian Catholic University (ACU) recently announced a plan that involves closing its Dianoia Institute of Philosophy and making 14 of its existing faculty compete through a re-application process for only 4 positions, as well as cutting faculty in history, political science, theology, and religious studies. (more…)

ACU Proposes Closing Dianoia Institute (multiple updates)

Australian Catholic University is apparently considering eliminating its Dianoia Institute of Philosophy (DIP), which it created in 2019 with hopes to “achieve a world-leading position for philosophical research in the analytic tradition.” (more…)

Petition to Save Philosophy & other Humanities at ACU

As reported earlier this week, Australian Catholic University is currently planning to shutter its philosophical research center, the Dianoia Institute, and eliminate or make cuts to other humanities programs. (more…)

Philosophy Survives West Virginia University Budget Cuts

Gordon Gee, president of West Virginia University, has proposed cutting 9 percent of the majors the university offers and 7 percent of its fulltime faculty. (more…)

Philosophy Threatened at Simmons University

The administration of Simmons University has said that it is planning to close the school’s Department of Philosophy and end its major program. (more…)

Philosophy & Other Humanities Fields at Kent Threatened

The administration of the University of Kent is planning to lay off faculty in its Department of Philosophy and other humanities and arts fields. (more…)

Urgent Appeal to Save Philosophy at Fresno Pacific

Fresno Pacific University (FPU) has just laid off Nathan Carson, director of the university’s philosophy program and its only full-time (and tenured) philosophy professor, and plans to eliminate the school’s philosophy major and minor programs. An appeal of the decision has been made and is currently being considered by the administration. (more…)

Philosophy & Others Threatened at Birkbeck (Updated)

The Department of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London may be stripped of up to six faculty members , and other departments face the prospect of similar reductions. (more…)

University of Roehampton Possibly “Closing” Philosophy

The University of Roehampton in London is one of several UK universities that have recently announced budget-related closures of programs and the laying off of faculty, including, reportedly, in philosophy. (more…)

Philosophy Under Threat at SUNY Potsdam

“Our department is being threatened with elimination even though by all measures, except number of majors, we excel.” (more…)

Nebraska Board of Regents Cuts Philosophy at Nebraska-Kearney

The ax came down on the philosophy major at University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) this past Friday. (more…)

Nebraska at Kearney Philosophy Major May Be Eliminated (Updated)

The philosophy major at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) “is being considered for discontinuation.”
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Philosophy Departments Under Threat: Information, Pro-Active Strategies, Defense

Many philosophy departments and programs have been targeted for cuts or elimination over the past several years, and many currently are undergoing reviews by administrators looking to make budget cuts or other changes that may end up negatively affecting philosophy departments. (more…)

Devastating Cuts at Laurentian University To Philosophy & Many Other Programs

Following years of extraordinary mismanagement by administrators, Laurentian University is attempting to address its current financial insolvency by eliminating a shocking number of academic programs and tenured positions. The Department of Philosophy and several of its faculty are among those slated for elimination. (more…)

To Help Avert University’s “Hunger Games,” A Philosopher Steps Down

Philosopher John Sutton will be voluntarily stepping down from his position as professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University as a way of helping his colleagues avoid a “Hunger Games”-style plan imposed by the university to cut faculty. (more…)

Cabrini University to Cut Philosophy Major

Cabrini University, a Catholic College in Pennsylvania, has announced that it is eliminating several programs, including its philosophy major. (more…)

Midgley on Dummett & Strawson on Closing Philosophy Departments

He told me flatly that it was wrong in principle to try to preserve all these provincial academic departments. Philosophy, he said, was a serious and highly technical subject which should only be studied at its own proper level. Any less professional approaches to it were useless and might even do harm. (more…)

Philosophy Threatened at Baker University

The administration of Baker University in Kansas has decided that in order to address the financial difficulties it is facing owing to the pandemic, its students should no longer be able to major in philosophy. (more…)

Cuts at Ithaca College Include Philosophy

Following up on a fall announcement of pending faculty and program cuts, the administration of Ithaca College has released a draft proposal specifying who and what is to be eliminated. (more…)

Philosophy Threatened at University of Evansville (updated)

Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz, the president of the University of Evansville, thinks it is a good idea to make sure future students at the school cannot study philosophy there, or computer science, or history, or music, or political science, or physics, or… well, the list goes on. (more…)

John Swallow, the president of Carthage College, a liberal arts college in Wisconsin that bills itself as “widely recognized for excellence,” has announced an academic restructuring plan that eliminates the school’s Department of Philosophy and, possibly, its philosophy major and minor. (more…)

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