(Source: CAPPS - California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools) Many professors say that their administrations create and fund new, vocationally oriented programs at the expense of key academic fields, without asking for any faculty input. Not so at Montana State University, where the Faculty Senate recently rejected -- least for now -- a proposed hospitality management program, despite strong administrative and industry support for the new degree. Hospitality management is simply 'not a high priority,' said Gary Brester, a professor of agricultural economics at Montana State and a member of the Faculty Senate who opposed the proposal in 16-to-12 vote. 'If one funds the lines for...
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