UCR considers eliminating athletics department and School of Public Policy in response to coronavirus budget cuts
Richard Carpiano, a professor of sociology and public policy as well as a representative for the SPP on UCR’s Academic Senate… feels as if the BAC’s recommendation makes it appear that the SPP, “is a financial burden to the campus which is not the case.” Carpiano noted that the SPP is relatively new. In 2018, UCR transferred the undergraduate program in public policy from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences to the SPP. Carpiano noted that “it doesn’t make sense to eliminate a college that is only a couple of years old, thriving and plays a tremendous role to the campus.”
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by Amani Mahmoud, The Highlander.