Life and death of courses, faculty
The Board of Curators raised questions on how the discontinuation of courses and the creation of new ones affect faculty.
“If a course has not been taught in five years, it is automatically pulled, and goes into a kind of depository, where it sits,” Curator Doug Russell said.
During the 2007-2008 academic year, UM added 55 new courses, added 325 to the depository and discontinued 164. Those figures led other curators to ask what impact the ratio of courses added to courses added to the depository has on faculty.
Russell said the number of courses added does not include modifications to current courses. Also, he said, the same faculty who teach deposited or discontinued courses also teach the new ones.
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