"The mock funeral was a protest against the university administration's plan to overhaul the college by consolidating its departments into four thematic schools including one devoted to human narratives and creative expressions, encompassing what was previously taught in the English, classics, languages and Latino Studies departments, among others. Fears over the future of the humanities aren't limited to New Jersey's second-largest public university."
"In Indiana, lawmakers passed legislation last year forcing the state's public universities to cut or consolidate some 400 academic programs, or nearly 20% of the system's degree programs most in the humanities and social sciences. At the University of Texas at Austin, staff are bracing for cuts they expect will take aim at ethnic and regional disciplines such as African studies, Latina/o studies, and gender studies."
Students at Montclair State University held a mock funeral outside the college of humanities and social sciences to protest a plan to consolidate 15 departments into four thematic schools. Protesters carried flowers and a tombstone inscribed with departmental names and read a eulogy emphasizing nonmonetizable dreams, problems unsolvable by algorithms, and words that cannot be generated artificially. The consolidation would group English, classics, languages and Latino Studies into a school devoted to human narratives and creative expressions. Similar threats appear nationwide: Indiana lawmakers required cuts or consolidations affecting about 400 programs, UT Austin staff expect cuts to ethnic and regional disciplines, and UNC plans to close several area-studies centers.
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