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After picking through its academic programs for nearly a year in search of cost savings, UTC administrators identified five under-producing academic majors to cut.
The UT board of trustees in June is expected to vote on UTC’s proposal to drop its math education, theater education, foreign language education, music education and art education majors.
“They are not producing enough graduates,” University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Provost Phil Oldham said. “It’s stuff we’re doing that shouldn’t be done.”
The majors are among 14 UTC programs that produce fewer than 10 graduates each year over a five-year period, according to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. Fewer than 50 students will be affected when the programs disappear, Dr. Oldham said.