N&R reports:

UNCG’s provost is recommending the university eliminate 42 academic programs as part of a review designed to free up resources.

Among the bachelor’s degree programs on that list are environmental biology, applied math, financial economics, and community youth sport development.

Provost David Perrin said no tenured faculty would lose their jobs. The university instead would try to reassign them.

But it’s unclear how many adjunct teachers would be let go. The university has not said how many personnel overall would be let go.

One professor questioned UNCG’s administrative bloat, putting Chancellor Linda Brady on the spot:

Deborah Bell, a professor in the School of Music, Theatre and Dance, asked whether UNCG has fewer administrators now than it did in 2008.

Brady said UNCG has cut 65 midlevel administrators over the past couple of years but could not give an exact answer to Bell’s question.

Bell also questioned why more UNC schools have not conducted reviews on their campuses.

“Are the others perfect or just lost in the wilderness?” Bell asked.

Another professor was quoted as saying ‘morale at UNCG is considerably worse than it had been.’