By Lilly Lampe and Amanda Parmer
Art and Education
Late in the day on Friday, September 14, Robin Forman, Dean of Emory
College of Arts and Sciences, released a letter to the Emory College
community stating that Emory University would be closing their Visual
Arts Program, as well as the Department of Educational Studies, the
Department of Physical Education, and the Department of Journalism. In
addition, the administration decided to suspend admissions to graduate
programs in Spanish, Economics, and the Institute of Liberal Arts
(I.L.A.)––Emory’s flagship interdisciplinary Ph.D. program. The tactics
used by Emory’s administration in arriving at these decisions and
announcing the news––delivering the decision to the heads of the
departments rather than engaging them throughout the process; blanketing
the rationality, reasoning and facts of the decision making process in
vague and ambiguous language; and sidestepping the impact this would
have on the Emory community––strike a corporate tone rather than one of a
democratic university. The effects continue to resonate throughout the
university community as details of the decision-making process surface
in an erratic and piecemeal fashion, stressing a need for greater
transparency and analysis.
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