CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland State University is suspending admissions to 42 programs this fall that officials say weren’t popular among students as it copes with declining enrollment and loss of revenue.
“We have a number of language majors – French, Spanish – and so the college and the department is actually working on taking the different majors and merging them into a new major that we might call, let’s say, ‘Cultural Studies,’ for want of a better name, that actually does provide students the opportunity to explore these different languages, but not necessarily have the silos that our current structure requires,” he said.
CSU is looking at degree duplication among nearby public colleges as well and whether less-popular degrees need to be offered on every campus. Ohio is in the bottom half nationally in the rate of students dropping out without degrees, Bloomberg said.