Proposal #48
Proposal Title: re-organize departments for lower
overhead
Anticipated Savings/Revenue: @$30,000 per set of combined units
Units affected: Potentially many
Impacted Degrees/Courses: Probably none, this is about administrative reorganization,
not curricular
Brief Description of Proposal:
Combine related departments under a single chair
with a single office staff. At one point, for example, there was some talk
about combining music, theatre and dance (all performing arts) into a single
administrative unit. Saves on staff and on chair salaries. This is basically
already the School of Business model and it works fine there. Too much money
seems to be going into giving every discipline and every degree its own department,
no matter how small the unit is. We probably have a dozen departments that
could be successfully merged with other small units without changing any
degrees, curricula, or deep structures at all.
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