The administration at U of All Individuals has suffered lengthy sufficient with the underperforming Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Its varied departments, packages and whatnot have grown arcane to the purpose the place the scholars themselves now not perceive the distinction between, say, philosophy and psychology, save that each start with the letter p. And since many college students now not have interaction in studying or writing with out the help of AI, we should always cease supporting distinct majors that encourage each. Consequently, we’re restructuring the varsity to mirror the present dictates of educational administration.
Listed here are some points we now have made as much as justify the restructuring:
- There was a current lower in enrollment, or not less than there must have been.
- These are perilous occasions for the humanities, and smushing them collectively will assist.
- Merging departments will make the infrastructure extra economical, notably if we dispose of pesky division places of work and workplace workers.
- Simply saying the phrase “interdisciplinary” makes us really feel related to the twenty first century.
SSSH presently consists of English, historical past, philosophy, faith, sociology, anthropology, trendy languages, linguistics, political science, psychology, classics and a number of other others which will have escaped our discover. Nonetheless, we now have employed a consultancy agency that may listing all of them. Already, the consultants have put collectively a PowerPoint presentation advising what they’ve inferred we wish.
The restructuring will characteristic packages akin to philohistenglish-religiosophy (PHER), anthrosociopsychology (ASP) and maybe two different smushes with higher acronyms. The brand new, versatile majors could also be grouped below the Program for (Considerably Restricted Freedom of) Speech, the Program for World Consciousness of What Bother We’re In and the Program That Resembles a Seize Bag From a Children’ Social gathering. As an alternative of a bunch of quarrelsome division heads and a dean, a triumvirate of armed SSSH directors shall be answerable for protecting the peace.
We’ve got already polled the school and college students in a metric calculated to show our level: On a scale of 1 to 10, please price how dissatisfied you’re with the present setup, with one being “very” and 10 being “extraordinarily.” The 12 respondents answered that they had been very dissatisfied. Be aware that we’re completely keen to take heed to ideas from the school and actually have invited all of them to attend a suggestions session to happen yesterday at 3 a.m. within the Scholar Middle Ballroom (convey your personal flashlight!). Nonetheless, we urge the school to not suppose exterior the field we now have positioned them in whereas additionally being nimble relating to downsizing.
Throughout this course of, the SSSH constructing itself, shabby in comparison with the shiny new STEM complicated, shall be restructured, probably to a multilevel parking storage with spots reserved for U of All Individuals directors. It has additionally been prompt that the school themselves may use some restructuring, beginning with their mouths, which will be sealed by means of a painless surgical process.
Don’t consider it as a lack of autonomy and shared governance. Take into account it a acquire for this administration!
