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Ojibwe language professor Anton Treuer said the university could play a more significant role in saving the language, which has few fluent speakers. In fact, they'll announce a capital campaign in the next few months. While the programs won't receive additional staff yet, administrators want to expand them so they become nationally distinctive. Both programs are attracting more students.Īnother winner at BSU is the American Indian Resource Center and the Ojibwe language program. They're looking for ways to make their campuses more distinctive.Īt BSU, for example, a so-called "recalibration" of resources will add faculty positions to the business and mass communication departments. Boise State University CAMP-This program is funded by the U.S. Administrators are shifting dollars into emerging programs. College Scholarship Department-Each college and university has a. But it doesn't mean all programs are taking a hit. The new reality for college campuses across the state means fewer resources. But that's one of the responsibilities of leadership, is to define reality. "When it comes to your ox that's getting gored, if it's your program or your reality, people react." Hanson said.
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But Hanson said the moves were necessary to fix a two-year, $5 million budget shortfall. In all, the moves eliminate some 50 jobs.Ĭritics of the cuts have labeled Richard Hanson, newly appointed president of BSU and Northwest Technical College, a hatchet man. At Northwest Technical College, officials eliminated the massage therapy and environmental landscape programs. College officials cut 33 faculty jobs from 18 other programs, including history, mathematics, computer sciences and modern languages.īSU also dropped its men's indoor and outdoor track teams. But it's not just the fine arts that suffer. But I will fight tooth and nail, every last gasp."īudget cuts will also eliminate the art history program at BSU. "It sucks how when there's cuts in Minnesota, arts is always the first on the chopping block," Villarreal said. When it's gone, two assistant professors will lose their jobs. The program will run one more year to allow juniors and seniors to graduate. The budgetary retooling includes both winners and losers.Īmong the losers was the theater department, which costs BSU $250,000 a year. Anticipating funding cuts as lawmakers deal with a $6.2 billion dollar state budget shortfall, many campuses have already chopped programs and positions.Īt Bemidji State University and its sister campus, Northwest Technical College, administrators have eliminated academic programs, dropped sports teams, and cut faculty and staff positions. The theater department at BSU is one of the casualties of an effort by Minnesota state colleges and universities to tighten their belts. "To see it get cut is extremely frustrating," he said. He sees theater as an important part of a liberal arts education. That's disheartening to Villarreal, one of 18 theatre majors. He's a senior at BSU and rehearsing the part of Theseus in the spring production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." But the play will be one of the final productions for BSU theater students, as the theater department was axed as part of a big budget overhaul. 24-25 at 2:30 p.m.Bemidji State University theater major Jesse Villarreal is passionate about acting. One of the characters joins their high school debate team in hopes of solving the scandal mystery, involving the mayor and a teacher.
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The story is centered on three teenagers in Salem, Oregon who come together in the midst of a sex scandal.
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"Speech and Debate" was written by Stephen Karam and directed by Emily Kipp. Curriculum The musical theatre option is a rigorous and extensive interdisciplinary program that offers comprehensive, conservatory-style training. Monday-Friday and one hour before each performance, or by calling the box office at 76. Ball State University is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre and National Association of Schools of Dance. Tickets are $6 for the general public and can be purchased at the University Theatre box office noon-5 p.m.
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The performance is part of the Cave Studio series featuring Ball State Department of Theatre and Dance students. MUNCIE- Ball State University students will open the latest student workshop production, "Speech and Debate," inside the Cave Studio Theatre at 7:30 p.m.