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	"author_name": "CSU-AAUP",
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	"title": "Save Social Sciences at Western",
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	"description": "On October 6, 2022, the Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Western Connecticut State University recommended to the University President to eliminate or “park” from the Department of Social Sciences all of our majors and eight of our eleven minors.   If taken into effect, this would eliminate the study of Anthropology, Economics, Geography, and Sociology as well as threaten Political Science. It would cut a combined major in Anthropology/Sociology, and majors in Economics, Social Sciences: Social Justice &amp;amp; Policy, and Social Sciences: Global Studies; plus, it would freeze our major in Political Science. These terminations have been recommended on the basis of misleading &quot;low completer&quot; and enrollment figures. The elimination of Social Sciences, a mainstay of general education as well as encompassing four disciplines at the core of any university curriculum, will set a chilling precedent for others and irreparably harm the value of an education at WCSU. Most disturbing, therefore, is that this initiative poses a serious risk to our students, not only in terms of the integrity of a liberal arts education for whom credentialing and advancement in a diversity of career tracks depends upon exposure to more than lower division introductory curricula. It also jeopardizes the futures of other departments and their programs (for example: AACSB accreditation for the Ancell Business School, whose students fill the vast majority of those taking our classes in Economics). Please join your colleagues in demanding that the Provost rescind the recommendation, for the benefit of our university and community and to preserve the quality education we provide our students.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/save-social-sciences-at-western"
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