Nine minors to be removed from Fredonia curriculum
After the removal of 13 majors, some students had remained hopeful that administrators would choose to keep the remaining programs....
Program Cuts
Professor Peter Tucker reflects on his time at Fredonia
MARIANA 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......
Digging into the impact of Fredonia’s faculty cuts
ALEX 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......
Students for Fredonia holds protest regarding 15 possible minor cuts
ALEX 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......
The students behind the art: The dynamic between history and photography: Rebekah Gerace
EJ 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......
Students behind the art: Jasper Glow
EJ 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......
The students behind the art: Henry Domst
DAN QUAGLIANA News Editor Every student at Fredonia whose major has been proposed to be cut is upset about it. But very few of them, if any, are doing more about it than Henry Domst. Domst is a senior double major in graphic design and art history with a minor......
Rumors swirl as proposed program cuts continue to threaten student livelihood
DAN 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......
What does the Student Association think about the program cuts?
DOMINICK CORSI Staff Writer As representatives of Fredonia’s student body, the executives of the Student Association (SA) are responsible for making sure that students’ voices are heard. But how do they respond to an academic crisis? One such situation arose on Dec. 6, 2023, when SUNY Fredonia President Stephen Kolison......
An overview of the proposed program cuts
DAN QUAGLIANA News Editor There’s 13 things that have been on everyone’s mind here at Fredonia — the 13 majors that have been proposed to be cut from the university’s offerings. What remains unclear is how things got to this point. It’s well-known to the campus community that Fredonia’s been......