Moving Day 2025

[laker]

Add UND to the list.

Yep. North Dakota Athletics announces discontinuation of tennis programs - KVRR Local News

[Bballfan]

Tennis is an easy cut because there is both men's and women's, and you don't tread on any potential Title IX violations.

If I am on a golf scholarship in college, I would be worried about that next.

[laker]

From X: 𝟭𝟴 tennis programs have been eliminated in just the past 10 weeks.

[SW_Mustang]

Not necessarily sports related - but Penn State is looking at cutting forty-nine majors - affecting about 900 students. I'd have to imagine some of them are athletes in non-revenue sports, so it will be interesting to see if it impacts any rosters.

Penn State proposes cutting 49 undergraduate programs; final decision expected this fall

Not sure if we've discussed it either, but PSU is also going to shut down seven campuses next year. That will leave the PSUAC with only six colleges.

Penn State University’s board greenlights plan to close 7 campuses | Higher Ed Dive

I get all this stuff makes financial sense - but it stinks seeing schools closed and programs lost.

ECU is doing the same with 44 majors:

East Carolina University plans to cut 44 academic programs | Higher Ed Dive

[Bballfan]

Yep. Less programs. Less professors and staff. Less costs. Some of these programs have very few students and it doesn't make sense to keep them going. "Rightsizing" to the right curriculum makes sense. But now it appears athletic teams are getting the chopping block too. I can't imagine there not being a lawsuit or two coming. Doesn't matter whether it has merit or not. Just something for people to try and stop.

[TheBigCat2192]

Not necessarily sports related - but Penn State is looking at cutting forty-nine majors - affecting about 900 students. I'd have to imagine some of them are athletes in non-revenue sports, so it will be interesting to see if it impacts any rosters.

Penn State proposes cutting 49 undergraduate programs; final decision expected this fall

Not sure if we've discussed it either, but PSU is also going to shut down seven campuses next year. That will leave the PSUAC with only six colleges.

Penn State University’s board greenlights plan to close 7 campuses | Higher Ed Dive

I get all this stuff makes financial sense - but it stinks seeing schools closed and programs lost.

ECU is doing the same with 44 majors:

East Carolina University plans to cut 44 academic programs | Higher Ed Dive

The cut in undergrad programs at PSU is news to me, but the branch campus closures have been discussed quite a bit over at the PSAC board. Let’s just say there weren’t a lot of tears being shed by PASSHE grads or supporters over there when that news dropped.

[SW_Mustang]

The cut in undergrad programs at PSU is news to me, but the branch campus closures have been discussed quite a bit over at the PSAC board. Let’s just say there weren’t a lot of tears being shed by PASSHE grads or supporters over there when that news dropped.

Looks like it was announced last year, just wasn't sure if it had been brought up here since USCAA news is... pretty much non existent.

Not sure of the ins-and-outs of PA higher ed - but I like having a physical campus to go back too on occasion, so that's where I was coming from.

[TheBigCat2192]

Looks like it was announced last year, just wasn't sure if it had been brought up here since USCAA news is... pretty much non existent.

Not sure of the ins-and-outs of PA higher ed - but I like having a physical campus to go back too on occasion, so that's where I was coming from.

Long story short: we have state schools under the PASSHE (Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education) umbrella, which are your public PSAC members and Cheyney, and all stylized as [Name] University of Pennsylvania, and then a couple of “state-related” schools under the designation of “Commonwealth System of Higher Education” in PSU, Pitt, Temple, and Lincoln (the CIAA member) that are a sort of public-private hybrid; the specifics of what state-related means aren’t worth getting into for this. At some point in time PSU and Pitt were allowed to start building their branches, which from the perspective of PASSHE people are either “redundant”, or less charitably, “stealing our students.” As an example, there are two PSU branch campuses, Berks and Schuylkill, about 20 and 40 minutes away respectively from Kutztown U.

The branches closing has also turned into a bit of a PR boondoggle for PSU, because PSU likes to shove in-state students into the branches, but flood University Park (the main campus at State College) with out of staters and foreign students, so closing all those branches raises a bit of a question about whether they’re still meeting their obligation to serve Pennsylvanians as a Land Grant school. They might have to consider actually letting more Pennsylvanians onto the big campus to meet their mission.

[zimmy21]

Not necessarily sports related - but Penn State is looking at cutting forty-nine majors - affecting about 900 students. I'd have to imagine some of them are athletes in non-revenue sports, so it will be interesting to see if it impacts any rosters.

Penn State proposes cutting 49 undergraduate programs; final decision expected this fall

Not sure if we've discussed it either, but PSU is also going to shut down seven campuses next year. That will leave the PSUAC with only six colleges.

Penn State University’s board greenlights plan to close 7 campuses | Higher Ed Dive

I get all this stuff makes financial sense - but it stinks seeing schools closed and programs lost.

ECU is doing the same with 44 majors:

East Carolina University plans to cut 44 academic programs | Higher Ed Dive

Sucks that people are losing their jobs but 49 majors with 900 students between them? That's probably a smart financial cut.

[SW_Mustang]

Sucks that people are losing their jobs but 49 majors with 900 students between them? That's probably a smart financial cut.

Yeah. There can also be a lot of redundancy in major offerings too. Depending on what was dropped and what was left, it might not be all that bad.

That actually happened to me at MSU - my degree program was cut, so I jumped to a similar one. Basically the same degree without the language component (which meant fewer credits needed and made it cheaper as a result).

[SW_Mustang]

Long story short: we have state schools under the PASSHE (Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education) umbrella, which are your public PSAC members and Cheyney, and all stylized as [Name] University of Pennsylvania, and then a couple of “state-related” schools under the designation of “Commonwealth System of Higher Education” in PSU, Pitt, Temple, and Lincoln (the CIAA member) that are a sort of public-private hybrid; the specifics of what state-related means aren’t worth getting into for this. At some point in time PSU and Pitt were allowed to start building their branches, which from the perspective of PASSHE people are either “redundant”, or less charitably, “stealing our students.” As an example, there are two PSU branch campuses, Berks and Schuylkill, about 20 and 40 minutes away respectively from Kutztown U.

The branches closing has also turned into a bit of a PR boondoggle for PSU, because PSU likes to shove in-state students into the branches, but flood University Park (the main campus at State College) with out of staters and foreign students, so closing all those branches raises a bit of a question about whether they’re still meeting their obligation to serve Pennsylvanians as a Land Grant school. They might have to consider actually letting more Pennsylvanians onto the big campus to meet their mission.

That makes a lot of sense, actually. I can see why they aren't shedding a lot of tears over this.

[crixus]

From X: 𝟭𝟴 tennis programs have been eliminated in just the past 10 weeks.

If I were a college tennis player I'd be feeling rather anxious about my athletic future. ;)

[crixus]

Looks like it was announced last year, just wasn't sure if it had been brought up here since USCAA news is... pretty much non existent.

Not sure of the ins-and-outs of PA higher ed - but I like having a physical campus to go back too on occasion, so that's where I was coming from.

USCAA isn't on most people's radar but it is collegiate sports, so props for adding it to the mix.

[SW_Mustang]

USCAA isn't on most people's radar but it is collegiate sports, so props for adding it to the mix.

Kinda the reason why I like these threads - we cover just about everything!

[laker]

D2 University of Montevallo just voted to eliminate its Men's & Women's Tennis and Swimming programs.