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American higher education continues to exercise the queen sacrifice strategy.  Here I’ll share three recent examples from across the country. (If you’re new to the term, it’s one I’ve been using to describe a college or university strategy of cutting … Continue reading →

Another queen sacrifice appeared this week, this time in Pennsylvania.  Keystone College will end two academic programs and lay off both faculty and staff. The programs are majors in geology and the visual arts.  According to one local report, 16 … Continue reading →

A certain strategy is increasingly available to financially stressed American colleges and universities.  It involves cutting selected majors and programs while removing tenure-track faculty. I’ve dubbed this strategy the queen sacrifice, drawing on that desperate chess move whereby a player … Continue reading →

I’ve been tracking queen sacrifices ever since coining the term, and in this post I’ll share an update on one.  But I’ll also add what seems to be a story of the opposite, so perhaps a new term is in … Continue reading →

In the most recent example of a college or university cutting faculty, Simpson College of Iowa announced it will lay off thirteen people, including twelve professors.  Its art department (where George Washington Carver once majored) will be shut down, as will … Continue reading →

On Sunday I wrote about another American university preparing a queen sacrifice.  Since then – i.e., in just two days – more stories of institutional decline and stress have crossed my transom. ITEM: the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point‘s provost … Continue reading →