The administration of Simmons School has mentioned that it’s planning to shut the college’s Department of Philosophy and finish its main program.
Philosophy is one in all a number of departments focused.
“No choices are last but,” experiences The Boston Globe, including that “a last plan might be offered to the college’s board in October after college leaders meet with all departments.”
The college, which is women-only on the undergraduate degree (however not for its graduate levels), is dealing with monetary constraints owed partly to what looks as if a really unhealthy deal it made with the web studying firm 2U, in keeping with which the corporate will get 50 to 62 % of the schooling paid by every scholar in its on-line packages. In response to the Globe, greater than half of Simmons’ graduate college students are in such on-line packages. The contract with 2U was made in 2013 and renewed (!) in 2018 for an additional 21 years.
College have been apparently instructed by the administration to not speak to the press. One professor, talking anonymously to the Globe, says: “Slicing out the humanities and social sciences is like reducing out the guts after which seeing if the physique will nonetheless stroll.”
The present president of Simmons, Lynn Perry Wooten, has an instructional specialization in “disaster management.”
