Each of Iowa’s public universities is working to close and consolidate academic programs after a review identified degrees with low enrollment.
Provosts from the University of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University presented to the Iowa Board of Regents during its Wednesday meeting in Iowa City on efforts they’ve initiated to review and change their low-enrollment programs where necessary. Some programs already slated for closure are set to come to the board for approval as soon as its next meeting in April.
“There were nine recommendations, if you’ll recall, in that report that we gave in November,” Board Chief Academic Officer Rachel Boon said. “There is progress happening on almost all of those right now, in different ways, some of that through a collaboration with the board office, some of that is on their campuses specifically.”…