Straws in the Wind - Part 36

From Forbes: Indiana University-Bloomington is ending more than 100 of its academic degree programs. The massive restructuring comes after the state passed a budget bill introducing several new public higher education policies, including one involving minimum thresholds for degree productivity. The programs on the list to be phased out include those at the undergraduate and graduate level and span multiple disciplines, such as education, the arts and humanities, foreign languages and some sciences.

One of the budget bill’s provisions — inserted by the Republican majority as the legislative session reached its final hours — established a minimum average number of graduates that degree programs at Indiana’s public colleges and universities must produce over a three-year period. If that number falls below 10 students in an associate degree program, 15 students in a BA program, seven students in master’s degree program, and three students in a doctorate degree program, the institution would have to request permission from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education to continue offering the program. The university would need to eliminate the program if the commission does not grant that permission...

Full story at https://fortune.com/2025/06/30/ford-ceo-jim-farley-henry-ford-playbook-union-wages/.