S26 read an opinion piece on their newspaper (from fall 2024) about a student’s disappointment with Conn College’s treatment of their creative writing program faculty. The student expressed frustration over the loss of her advisor, a visiting professor who left the summer before the student’s senior year for a tenured position at another university. The student felt that Conn College was not providing enough job security to their English dept. faculty. The student expressed that since that opinion piece, her advisor’s replacement for her senior year has also left at the end of her senior year. While visiting professors add so much to academic departments and even tenured professors may come and go, my son (who’s a creature of habit) prefers a program where the majority of the faculty are tenured - something he learned from talking to a friend of mine who teaches creative writing at Fordham. With that said, one of the schools on his list may not last on his list due to this preference.
Conn College is a great school, no doubt, just not a good fit for my son.