More Cuts coming to Akron ...

[GP1]

If Akron cuts half of the professors in the Polymer Engineering School, they can still maintain the core research that drives funding and churn out a decent number of PhDs. 

 

For easy math, let's round up to 20 professors. Because of their own research and teaching responsibilities, a single professor can sit on a PhD committee for at most 4 candidates. That's 80 candidates. If the field is narrowed down to 40 in the core fields, it's still a pretty good number. 

 

It is true this will make the ABJ, which almost nobody reads. It is also true it will be reported on the local TV news which almost nobody watches. Seems like it would be easy enough to explain to the public with little effort.

[ZipCat]

On 11/4/2024 at 8:03 PM, ClevelandZip said:

That’s fair. I’m sure many programs can just be a matter of how much effort is put into learning the material, and some may be a waste of time. But my point is if other colleges are picking up easy revenue from this, why not Akron? I believe Akron launched an online MBA recently, but should have 10 years ago and gotten ahead of the curve to differentiate themselves. Now they’re playing catch-up with established “brands.”

 

Well there's the whole problem where Akron cut a majority of it's Master's programs.

 

I hold a master's in chemistry from Ohio University because Akron was dumping most of its programs. Akron has chem, but not the supporting staff or courses for what I needed/wanted.

 

It takes staff to make a decent program. You can't just cut them, scatter them to the wind and then expect to make decent master's programs. So, like GP1, unless you actually hire (and fairly compensate) the people running master's programs, it absolutely is just a shameless money grab.

[egregiousbob]

Cut first, think second. Seems to be the norm in our nation right now. Wait until Social Security and tax refund checks don't show up in citizen's bank accounts on time. Then the impact of these decisions will begin to hit home.

[Hilltopper]

The pathway we are on as a nation is not sustainable. The interest payments on our national debt is destroying our economy. The reckless spending of the last 10 years cannot continue. The past administrations strategy of essentially just printing more money is about to have the bill come due. Trillions of dollars in low interest rate short term debt will need to be refinanced soon at double the rate. The IRS has 45,000 employees. The few new hires that DOGE is trimming are not going to delay tax returns unless the remaining employees decide to take some type of work action to slow things down.