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Faculty: Open letter to CT Gov. Ned Lamont on irreparable harm to UConn
An open letter to Governor Ned Lamont on UConn’s budget:
We write to you as endowed chairs and as distinguished professors at the University of Connecticut to express our deep alarm over the drastic budget cuts proposed for UConn. This severe draining of resources from academic units at the university will inflict permanent, irreparable harm to the Research-1 standing of the flagship university of the state of Connecticut and threatens its accreditation in the long run.
The proposed budget cuts would destroy graduate programs and high-level research and scholarship in nearly all departments in the university and eventually its well-known sports programs. That in turn will have a direct impact on students of all levels. Last year, West Virginia imposed devastating cuts on its flagship public university. We now risk following them in a disastrous race to the bottom, jeopardizing UConn’s national and international reputation and risking its imminent inclusion into the list of AAU prestigious public and private research universities.
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Faculty: Open letter to CT Gov. Ned Lamont on irreparable harm to UConn
An open letter to Governor Ned Lamont on UConn’s budget:
We write to you as endowed chairs and as distinguished professors at the University of Connecticut to express our deep alarm over the drastic budget cuts proposed for UConn. This severe draining of resources from academic units at the university will inflict permanent, irreparable harm to the Research-1 standing of the flagship university of the state of Connecticut and threatens its accreditation in the long run.
The proposed budget cuts would destroy graduate programs and high-level research and scholarship in nearly all departments in the university and eventually its well-known sports programs. That in turn will have a direct impact on students of all levels. Last year, West Virginia imposed devastating cuts on its flagship public university. We now risk following them in a disastrous race to the bottom, jeopardizing UConn’s national and international reputation and risking its imminent inclusion into the list of AAU prestigious public and private research universities.
Faculty: Open letter to CT Gov. Ned Lamont on irreparable harm to UConn
As leading faculty members at the University of Connecticut, we are appalled at this dangerous undermining of the state’s educational crown-jewel.
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