Sabine Foerg, Cynic News Reporter
• March 29, 2021
Despite thousands worldwide expressing their anger, UVM has announced its intention to cut one of its core liberal arts departments: religion.
During finals week of fall 2021, the UVM community received...
This past Wednesday, when I discovered that my beloved Religion department would be dissolved as a result of the budget cuts to the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)… my heart fell into my stomach....
Lilly Page, Cynic News Reporter
• December 3, 2020
UVM has proposed slashing 27 programs in the College of Arts and Sciences in another blow to the College, citing its mounting budgetary deficit of $8.6 million.
In two separate emails sent to the UVM...
Facing a nearly $10 million deficit, UVM is looking to cut faculty salaries and benefits in their latest contract proposal.
However, UVM’s faculty union is sounding the alarm, saying these cuts...
We, the undersigned, are recipients of the University of Vermont’s highest awards for teaching, scholarship, and community commitment.
Our group includes winners of the George V. Kidder Outstanding...
In response to already present financial challenges worsened by COVID-19, UVM has announced further budget cuts for fiscal year 2021.
Limited state support and a high reliance on out-of-state tuition,...
A nearly empty UVM campus erupted with the blasting of car horns as protestors drove their cars around campus, showing solidarity against imposed budget cuts.
The rally held May 14 was led by UVM United...
If you told me a few years ago that the guy that made the “Hangover” movies was going to make a film about the horrors of economic inequality, I would have laughed at you.
But that’s exactly what...
Howe Library will end the All Night Study program in the face of budget cuts, leaving some students without a study space.
Administrators decided to close the program after 16 years in an attempt to...
Mummies, pottery and ancient art are a classicist or archaeologist’s favorite subject.
All were found on a recent field trip to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
A bus full of students who were...
Last week, I distributed memes across campus, critiquing Provost David Rosowsky and the rollout of major cuts to the College of Arts and Sciences.
Though merely memes, they used facts from UVM’s 2017...
Incentive-based budgeting, or IBB, poses a threat to humanities and other programs and drives infighting instead of looking for other spending choices.
IBB, as used by UVM, is similar to running a business....
