FIU Slashes Budget by $32 Million; Closes Education and Other Programs
Sunday June 15, 2008
Florida International University announced significant budget cuts on Thursday that will close many academic programs and eliminate approximately 200 faculty and staff positions. These cuts hit the College of Education especially hard and will close a number of critical programs that our communitiy schools depend upon, including Math Teacher Education, Science Teacher Education and English Teacher Education. The full list of programs on the chopping block are:
- Dance, BA
- English Teacher Education, BS
- English Teacher Education, MS
- Environmental and Systems Engineering, MS
- Exercise Science, BS, MS
- German, BA
- Health Sciences, BS
- Health Information Management, BA
- Humanities, BA
- Insurance and Risk Management, BBA
- Industrial Systems Engineering, BS, MS, PhD
- Logistics and Materials Management, BBA
- Mathematics Teacher Education, BS, MS
- Music Teacher Education, BS
- Science Teacher Education, BS, MS
- Social Science Teacher Education, BS, MS
- Technology Management, MS
- Tourism Studies, MS
- Travel and Tourism Management, BS
- Center for Economic Research and Education
- Center for Health Research and Policy
- Future Aerospace Science and Technology Center for Space
- Center for Ethnobiology and Natural Products
- Institute for Children and Families at Risk
- Intercultural Institute for Educational Initiatives
Comments
takin all this away will kill these student’s dreams. IT’S TOTALLY UNFAIR. something has to be done.