UF eliminates some Ph.D. programs

Colleges & Universities University of Florida
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<p>"To meet its share of a $47 million budget cut, UF’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will reduce its foreign language offerings, lay off more than 30 faculty and staff and eliminate three Ph.D. programs…</p>

<p>…The faculty layoffs stem mostly from the closing of the Korean and Vietnamese language programs and the Ph.D. programs in philosophy, French and German…"</p>

<p>[The</a> Independent Florida Alligator: News - CLAS faculty upset as college bears brunt of layoffs](<a href=“http://www.alligator.org/articles/2008/05/13/news/uf_administration/080513_clas.txt]The”>http://www.alligator.org/articles/2008/05/13/news/uf_administration/080513_clas.txt)</p>

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<p>I’ve known about the impending Ph.D. cuts for a while, and all I have to say is</p>

<p>how do you end the PHILOSOPHY Ph.D.???</p>

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<p>The Trustees are just freezing new Doctoral students until 2012. They are not ending the programs. This was ruled on last week.</p>

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<p>■■■■■</p>

<p>I can’t believe I didn’t realize that.</p>

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