{"id":859,"date":"2007-02-07T06:46:29","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T10:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=859"},"modified":"2007-02-07T06:46:29","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T10:46:29","slug":"indiana-state-provost-holds-institutional-reputation-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=859","title":{"rendered":"Indiana State provost holds institutional reputation hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the only explanation I can see for C. Jack Maynard&#8217;s&nbsp;proposal <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/02\/07\/programs\">to eliminate physics and philosophy<\/a> majors for undergraduates. Maynard&#8217;s own research specialty is in higher ed, and according to the Educational Leadership, Administration, and Foundations <a href=\"http:\/\/elaf.indstate.edu\/faculty\/faculty.htm\">web page<\/a>, one of his interests is accreditation.&nbsp;Is this move the foundation for his next article, &#8220;How to Lose Accreditation and Influence People?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Other majors slated for elimination include art history and&nbsp;environmental life sciences. There are also associates&#8217; and graduate programs slated for elimination, and far more slated for consolidation. But what is a state university doing giving out terminal associates&#8217; degrees anyway?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the only explanation I can see for C. Jack Maynard&#8217;s&nbsp;proposal to eliminate physics and philosophy majors for undergraduates. Maynard&#8217;s own research specialty is in higher ed, and according to the Educational Leadership, Administration, and Foundations web page, one of his interests is accreditation.&nbsp;Is this move the foundation for his next article, &#8220;How to Lose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-dR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}