‘Like solving low attendance rates at church by eliminating Sunday services’
By Bob Unruh
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A longtime Catholic liberal arts university has announced it plans to kill study programs in theology, math, English and more so that it can spend more money on programs that draw more student “interest.”
The plan that already has been announced to faculty and students at Marymount University in Virginia would eliminate bachelor’s degrees in religious studies, philosophy, math, art, history, theology, sociology, England, economics and secondary education.
The school announcement said it wants to “reallocate resources from those programs to others that better serve our students and reflect their interests.”
Constitutional scholar and popular legal commentator Jonathan Turley said the move poses several problems, including that student choices “are not the guide for universities on core academic standards. Universities are places where students come to be educated, not dictate the meaning of education.”