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Program Cuts

Life & Arts

Professor Peter Tucker reflects on his time at Fredonia

Drew Paluch
Reading Time: 4 minutesMARIANA CRUZ Special to The Leader Warning: This article contains strong language. Sculpture professor Peter Tucker went on sabbatical for the Fall 2024 semester.  After a semester of knowing that half of the programs in the Visual Arts and New Media (VANM) department will be discontinued, he got a grant......
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Digging into the impact of Fredonia’s faculty cuts

Alex Bucknam
Reading Time: 5 minutesALEX BUCKNAM Asst. News Editor Warning: This article contains strong language. If you don’t live under a rock, then you know by now that SUNY Fredonia is currently facing a financial problem.  Everything is a mess, the future is unclear, and staff, faculty and students are lost with no idea......
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Students for Fredonia holds protest regarding 15 possible minor cuts

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 7 minutesALEX BUCKNAM Asst. News Editor ABIGAIL JACOBSON News Editor DAN QUAGLIANA Managing Editor In December of 2023, Fredonia President Stephen Kolison Jr. announced plans to discontinue 13 majors across the university’s curriculum. Discontinued majors include philosophy, Spanish and photography.  All 13 majors were officially discontinued by the administration on March......
Life & Arts

The students behind the art: The dynamic between history and photography: Rebekah Gerace

EJ Jacobs
Reading Time: 2 minutesEJ JACOBS  Life & Arts Editor  In a time of decrease and cancellation of majors, Rebekah Gerace has not given up on her commitment to being a double major in photography and history.  When it comes to being a double-major, some prospective students find it beneficial for a university to......
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Students behind the art: Jasper Glow

EJ Jacobs
Reading Time: 2 minutesEJ JACOBS Life & Arts Editor Every student has personal and unique experiences and feelings towards the 13 programs up for potential discontinuation.  With the changes to Fredonia’s academic offerings, some students are thinking about what got them to the SUNY Fredonia campus in the first place. “I actually originally......
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Rumors swirl as proposed program cuts continue to threaten student livelihood

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutesDAN QUAGLIANA News Editor Over the last few weeks, rumors have been swirling around Fredonia’s campus regarding the proposed program cuts, leading to an atmosphere of suspicion and mistrust between students and the administration.  One such rumor is that the proposed programs have officially and irreversibly been cut by the......

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