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Outside consultants are helping cash-strapped colleges cut majors, like foreign languages, that once seemed essential — and are taking the heat for those unpopular decisions.
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When Cost-Cutting Universities Hire Consultants (chronicle.com/article/nobody-knows-where-the-line-is?utm_campaign=che-pcm-pd-ep-sn-consultants-are-coming&utm_medium=aud&utm_source=mgp&utm_content=24-10-22-slnk-e008-l1) , Who’s Really Making the Decisions?
• Is Higher Ed Growing or Shrinking? (chronicle.com/article/is-higher-ed-growing-or-shrinking?utm_campaign=che-pcm-pd-ep-sn-consultants-are-coming&utm_medium=aud&utm_source=mgp&utm_content=24-10-22-slnk-e008-l2)
• Gordon Gee’s Last Stand (chronicle.com/article/gordon-gees-last-stand?utm_campaign=che-pcm-pd-ep-sn-consultants-are-coming&utm_medium=aud&utm_source=mgp&utm_content=24-10-22-slnk-e008-13)
Guest: David Jesse (chronicle.com/author/david-jesse?utm_campaign=che-pcm-pd-ep-sn-consultants-are-coming&utm_medium=aud&utm_source=mgp&utm_content=24-10-22-slnk-e008-14) , senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education
For more on today’s episode, visit chronicle.com/collegematters (chronicle.com/podcast/college-matters-from-the-chronicle?utm_campaign=che-pcm-pd-ep-sn-consultants-are-coming&utm_medium=aud&utm_source=mgp&utm_content=24-10-22-slnk-e008-l5) . We aim to make transcripts available within a day of an episode’s publication.
Outside consultants are helping cash-strapped colleges cut majors, like foreign languages, that once seemed essential — and are taking the heat for those unpopular decisions.
Related Reading:
•
When Cost-Cutting Universities Hire Consultants (chronicle.com/article/nobody-knows-where-the-line-is?utm_campaign=che-pcm-pd-ep-sn-consultants-are-coming&utm_medium=aud&utm_source=mgp&utm_content=24-10-22-slnk-e008-l1) , Who’s Really Making the Decisions?
• Is Higher Ed Growing or Shrinking? (chronicle.com/article/is-higher-ed-growing-or-shrinking?utm_campaign=che-pcm-pd-ep-sn-consultants-are-coming&utm_medium=aud&utm_source=mgp&utm_content=24-10-22-slnk-e008-l2)
• Gordon Gee’s Last Stand (chronicle.com/article/gordon-gees-last-stand?utm_campaign=che-pcm-pd-ep-sn-consultants-are-coming&utm_medium=aud&utm_source=mgp&utm_content=24-10-22-slnk-e008-13)
Guest: David Jesse (chronicle.com/author/david-jesse?utm_campaign=che-pcm-pd-ep-sn-consultants-are-coming&utm_medium=aud&utm_source=mgp&utm_content=24-10-22-slnk-e008-14) , senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education
For more on today’s episode, visit chronicle.com/collegematters (chronicle.com/podcast/college-matters-from-the-chronicle?utm_campaign=che-pcm-pd-ep-sn-consultants-are-coming&utm_medium=aud&utm_source=mgp&utm_content=24-10-22-slnk-e008-l5) . We aim to make transcripts available within a day of an episode’s publication.
