Utah State University is the first school in the state to announce which majors, certificates and emphases it plans to discontinue under legislative-mandated budget cuts. It has published a list Friday of 14 academic programs to be axed.
The northern Utah school is the first in the state to list specific majors, certificates or emphases on the chopping block. Utah State University in Logan on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. USU is the first school to announce which majors and certificates it will cut under HB265 ; it published a list of 14 programs on the chopping block in April 2025.
is the first school in the state to announce which majors, certificates and emphases it plans to discontinue under legislative-mandated budget cuts for public higher education.One cut that stands out is the bachelor’s degree program for environmental engineering — which comes as lawmakers have said they want schools to expand engineering programs because there’s a high workforce demand for those graduates.in the state’s eight public colleges and universities. This year, lawmakers slashed $60.5 million across the board from institution budgets, with the demand underA university can get its share of its cut back only if it proves it’s reinvested in high-wage jobs that the state needs.. The decisions, he said, were based on many different data points that the state asked schools to look at, including graduation rates, wage outcomes and program costs, as well as discussions with deans and faculty feedback. “No single metric determined the activities to be discontinued and no specific algorithm could be generated that would produce the list of activities for us — making decisions in context necessarily requires the application of human judgment,” he said. Smith added that while the programs are being discontinued, it “does not necessarily mean” that all faculty and staff positions in those fields will be affected, though some “rightsizing” will occur. More likely, he said, there will be position adjustments, including new roles, duties and job descriptions.That list details cuts to five bachelor’s majors, four areas of emphasis, one master’s degree, two graduate certificates, one area for doctorate specialization and one associate degree at the school’s campus in Price. The programs cuts are:• ASL/deaf education teacher prep program, bachelor’s degree• Theater program, associate degree offered at the Price, Utah, campus The school did not release numbers for how many students had been studying in those fields. But each university and college will be given three years to “teach out” programs so students can complete their degrees. Additionally, Smith said the Logan campus’ College of Humanities and Social Sciences will merge eight departments into six. And the Department of Geosciences will also now be joined into the previously announced merger that’s combining the College of Natural Resources with the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences. All of the Engineering Education Department, he said, will be shuttered and research efforts from that will be recentered into the engineering disciplinary departments that already exist. Smith urged faculty and staff in his letter to “assume the best intentions of decision-makers” with the closures. “Please be reminded,” he said, “that our proposal will be a living document and will involve changes over the next three years. It is to our advantage to leave space for us to advance our thinking as a community over that time frame and beyond.”next month, with a formal presentation to follow in June. Final approval from the Legislature will come in August and September.This Utah university is adopting a unique tuition plan to save students money. Could it be a model for all schools?University of Utah pleads with faculty not to violate state pride flag ban, says Legislature has ‘a lot of power over us’What’s next for Utah’s school voucher program after judge declared it unconstitutional? Here’s what we know so far.
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