In order to save money and attract more students, the University of Toledo will be eliminating several undergraduate and graduate programs from its course offerings.
Scott Molitor, University of Toledo interim provost and executive president for Academic Affairs, said the programs being suspended have had low enrollment numbers.
“We decided that the better thing to do was to move professors to other programs and courses,” he said. “There was some duplication in the courses, and we felt it would be more efficient to not spread our faculty out all over the place.”
Mr. Molitor said the university supports health-related fields and aims to strengthen the master of public health program. The specialty programs being suspended will be combined under the general masters program.
“We believe it will make the program stronger,” he said. “The program will be more focused and we believe it will attract more students into the discipline.”
The bachelor degree programs targeted for elimination include French, German, media communication, urban studies, exercise science, pharmacy administration, pharmacology, and toxicology.