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Tag Archives: queensacrifice
Today’s grim higher education indicators
Today I’ll take a break from blogging and tweeting about the growing COVID-19 outbreak and return to the state of American higher ed. (Note to self: really try harder to get more cheerful topics) I’d like to share several stories … Continue reading
More queen sacrifices in Michigan, Texas, and Arkansas
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
Alaska gears up to clobber its universities
The University of Alaska system just learned it will experience a 41% budget cut. This goes far beyond my queen sacrifice chess analogy and into “sweeping whole ranks of pieces off the board” terrain. Here’s the story, from what I … Continue reading
Queen sacrifice in Pennsylvania
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
Another college commits to a queen sacrifice
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
Another campus closure, another queen sacrifice
This season has seen quite a few bad news stories for American higher education. Let me address two developments from my ongoing environmental scanning work in this post, as datapoints for academia’s future. (I’m trying not to be too glum … Continue reading
Casualties of the future: college closures and queen sacrifices
For years I’ve been thinking about ways of explaining higher education’s present and future. My peak higher education model is out there, for example, notorious and grim. Beyond that, I wonder if we should think of our time as a … Continue reading
One queen sacrifice proceeds while another campus launches the opposite
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
One university to close, another lays off faculty, and two more will merge
How is American higher education faring in an era of sustained challenges and possible decline? This morning Inside Higher Ed offered three (3) stories about campuses taking drastic steps. First, Iowa Wesleyan University’s president floated the prospect of closing that … Continue reading
Simpson College commits to a queen sacrifice
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
