In addition to these fees, which could total close to $2 million in revenue if applied to both graduate and
undergraduate increase
programs. Swan
hopes by aggressively
revenue
to
recruiting transfer students to majors with low enrollment, such as the traditional humanities and business administration. The third strategy is a recommendation for reducing expenditures by limiting
faculty appointments to the academic year, and eliminating some administrators who are hired on a yearly basis, such as deans,
associate
deans,
and others. These than half
more
a
assistant
changes could
deans save
million dollars.
Strategy IV calls for "more dramatic changes," according to the report. These changes involve most of the university and are quite broad. Currently the university has nine colleges, but strategy IV proposes to merge them into six For there could be a college of arts
example,
and letters and
life-long learning, a college of life and health sciences, and college of marine and environmental
a
sciences.
report of the Joint committee. President Carothers had asked Swan to work on a for restructuring the developing plan university's curriculum. Swan said in the report that the revisions are necessary due to "eroded" Based
on a
Academic
state
Steering
allocations and
budget
a
general
lack of state support. Swan said that the University of Rhode Island has come to the
same
realization that has come to across the country that
other universities
possible to "be all things to all people" any longer. She said there is an "increased public demand to bee more it
isn't
our traditional audiences emerging constituencies."
relevant- to
well
as
to
Some
or
expected
as
all of these
to
be
proposals are implemented as early as college
this
summer.
The deans of each
are
expected
to
evaluate and initiate
plans by April 15. Students currently enrolled will still graduate with the degrees they intended. For example, a student planning to get a degree in botany two years from now will still get that degree even if the department is merged with the college of action
on
these
biological
sciences
.
.
All merger
affect students entering the
proposals would only University this fall.