The campus of UNC-Greensboro (Photo: UNCG)
An associate dean and department head at UNC Greensboro resigned Wednesday in protest of the process used to identify programs that may be cut on the campus , pointing to a lack of transparency and “egregious behavior from senior administration,” according to a resignation letter obtained by Newsline.
Charles Bolton, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and interim head of the university’s anthropology department, tendered his resignation in a scathing letter to the college’s dean, John Kiss. Programs in Bolton’s own department were on a list of 19 potential eliminations the university released last week. That list , and the process university administrators used to create it, has been hotly debated since.
Charles Bolton, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at UNCG, resigned Thursday in protest of the process of identifying programs to be cut at the university. (Photo: UNCG)
“I have come to understand that some of the decisions made to place programs and courses on the discontinued list — specifically, the BA in Anthropology, the MA in Mathematics, the minors in Russian and Chinese and the course in Korean — have not been made in a fair, transparent and collaborative way in which the university has repeatedly described the APR [Academic Portfolio Review] process,” Bolton wrote in his resignation letter.