[OPINION] SUNY budget shortfall and its effects on students
Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter years of reduced funding, campuses like Fredonia, Buffalo State, Potsdam and Geneseo have fallen into multi-million-dollar deficits. ...
Program Cuts
[SATIRE] The REAL reason behind the budget cuts
Reading Time: 2 minutesRYAN FINK Special to the Leader “Your major might get cut.” That’s a line that a lot of people might be hearing when they walk through the campus of SUNY Fredonia, but the question on everyone’s minds is, “Why?” Well, do I have the inside scoop for you. ......
Horowitz hosts town hall meetings to discuss cuts, deficit
Reading Time: 7 minutesHorowitz said she would not apologize for her $155,000 salary. "Would anyone here work for free? No. I won't either," the provost said....
Nine minors to be removed from Fredonia curriculum
Reading Time: 8 minutesAfter the removal of 13 majors, some students had remained hopeful that administrators would choose to keep the remaining programs....
Professor Peter Tucker reflects on his time at Fredonia
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......
Digging into the impact of Fredonia’s faculty cuts
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......
Students for Fredonia holds protest regarding 15 possible minor cuts
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......
The students behind the art: The dynamic between history and photography: Rebekah Gerace
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......
Students behind the art: Jasper Glow
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......
The students behind the art: Henry Domst
Reading Time: 3 minutesDAN 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......