Boise State University will merge two colleges and close down a third college, in a major restructuring plan announced late Tuesday afternoon.
It’s not immediately clear how many positions will be cut, but one dean has already left the university. It’s also unclear how much money Boise State expects to save with the restructuring.
“While we understand that change can be challenging — and our campus has experienced a lot of it — we are confident that these changes will strengthen our university for the future,” interim President Jeremiah Shinn and interim Provost Zeynep Hansen said in an email to the Boise State campus community, obtained Tuesday afternoon by Idaho EdNews…