Hoping to reduce annual base spending by $11 million, the University of Nevada at Reno announced a plan to remove several academic programs from its curriculum, Inside Higher Ed reported Wednesday. Thirty-five tenured and tenure-track faculty members would be laid off as a result, Inside Higher Ed reported. If instated, the University would join other higher education institutions in departing from widely-accepted policies enacted by the American Association of University Professors, which state that only institutions proclaiming "financial exigency" can lay off tenured faculty, according to Inside Higher Ed. The colleges of agriculture, German studies, French and Italian are included in the list of programs slated for elimination. Because the University has agricultural interests as Nevada's land grant university, however, the institution will continue to support agriculture studies through other means, Marc Johnson, University of Nevada at Reno provost, told Inside Higher Ed.
Most students found their high school guidance counselors unhelpful and said teachers provided more valuable advice on college and careers, according to a study by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Individuals who referred to their counselors as impersonal and inattentive had lower chances of entering a postsecondary program immediately after high school, the study said. Guidance counselors' administrative and disciplinary responsibilities have increased over the years, limiting the amount of time left for counseling, Jim Jump, a high school college counselor and president of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, told The Times. The study surveyed 600 high-school graduates aged 22-30 from around the country.
