Philosopher Neil Feit (SUNY Fredonia) writes:

SUNY Fredonia President Virginia Horvath has identified our BA program in Philosophy, my department's only major, as a candidate for elimination as a cost savings measure. If you are willing to post something about it on your blog, we would be grateful. Here are some links with recent developments:

Here is an article that appeared yesterday in our local paper, the Dunkirk Observer:

http://www.observertoday.com/news/page-one/2018/12/suny-fredonia-faculty-criticize-administration-possible-cuts/

Here is a petition that one of our current majors just launched:

https://www.change.org/p/students-of-fredonia-save-the-philosophy-department-at-suny-fredonia

As the Dunkirk article makes clear, the Administration is planning on wiping out many other majors as well.  This seems utterly unworthy of a campus that is supposed to be part of the State University system in New York.