Jeff Schroeder: What we hear about meetings between University leadership and department heads is that there are plans to entirely eliminate the Departments of Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, German and Scandinavian, and Russian.
Presenter: For KEPW Reports, Jana Thrift:
Jana Thrift (KEPW): Hello, this is Jana with KEPW-LP 97.3 FM in Eugene, broadcasting online at KEPW.org and today I have a very important topic that I want to cover, and I have Jeff Schroeder here. He’s an associate professor with Religious Studies at the University of Oregon, and what is happening at the University of Oregon right now that you’re trying to let people know about?
Jeff Schroeder (University of Oregon): There are massive, drastic changes being carried out at the University of Oregon right now, during the summer. There are plans to eliminate entire programs, fire dozens—we don’t know the number—of faculty, including many tenured faculty…