200 more students - impact on housing and dining?

interesteddad
Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:26:10 +0000

I can’t cite chapter and verse, but Amherst had just finished construction of several new dorms with plans to take old buildings off-line or convert to other uses. So, right now, they have a surplus of dorm rooms.

Faculty is a different issue. They cut the number of non-tenure track faculty for this current year, will maintain those cuts next year, and cut a few more the following year. They had approved 18 new tenure track slots to match the first part of the expansion (before the market crash). They’ve now cancelled 15 of those 18 new tenure-track slots and will expand by just three.