Michigan State University’s College of Arts and Letters is facing a $7.1 million structural deficit amidst university-wide budget cuts.
The issue was discussed during a recent college town hall meeting, along with the college’s plans to pause most graduate admissions and the looming merger with the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities.
In an email summarizing the event obtained by The State News, Dean Thomas Stubblefield wrote that the deficit was caused by a combination of pandemic-era cuts, expensive retention packages, and rising costs…