{"id":69113,"date":"2018-03-15T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69113"},"modified":"2018-03-15T19:00:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T23:00:38","slug":"patheos-chris-gehrz-the-stevens-point-pathway-how-the-liberal-arts-will-die-at-christian-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69113","title":{"rendered":"(Patheos) Chris Gehrz&#8211;The Stevens Point Pathway: How the Liberal Arts Will Die at Christian Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, most college professors pay little attention to what\u2019s happening in higher education beyond their own discipline or institution. So last week it was remarkable how many colleagues came up and asked me, \u201cWhat happened at\u00a0<a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/Pages\/default.aspx\">UW-Stevens Point<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They were referring to one of the 26 campuses in the University of Wisconsin system, which\u00a0<a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/ucm\/news\/Pages\/Repositioning18.aspx\">announced last Monday<\/a>\u00a0that it was planning to address a $4.5 budget deficit by a combination of two strategies: \u201cadding or expanding 16 programs in areas with high-demand career paths as a way to maintain and increase enrollment\u201d and \u201cshifting resources from programs where fewer students are enrolled,\u201d to the point of cutting several majors.<\/p>\n<p>What will grow? Business programs like marketing, management, and finance, and STEM programs like chemical engineering, computer information systems, and aquaculture\/aquaponics.<\/p>\n<p>What will go away? Virtually every art, humanity, and social science major that isn\u2019t directly connected to a professional \u201cpathway.\u201d\u00a0Not just the languages (French, German, and Spanish at UWSP) and fine arts (art and music literature) programs that have been the first to go when smaller schools make such cuts. Stevens Point students would no longer be able to major in English, philosophy, political science, sociology,\u00a0<em>or history<\/em>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/anxiousbench\/2018\/03\/liberal-arts-christian-colleges\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, most college professors pay little attention to what\u2019s happening in higher education beyond their own discipline or institution. So last week it was remarkable how many colleagues came up and asked me, \u201cWhat happened at\u00a0UW-Stevens Point?\u201d They<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69113\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,175,111,168,133,108,619,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-religion-culture","category-state-government","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69115,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69113\/revisions\/69115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}