Miami: You’re a Liberal Arts College, Not a Polytechnic Institute

Liz Wilson teaching a religion course, one of the several majors targeted by Miami University. Photo by Sarah Frosch | The Miami Student

Miami: You’re a liberal arts college, not a polytechnic institute

"The new system changes how funding for departments is calculated. Now, 40% of instructional revenue will be given to a student's primary major, a large increase from the 25% set aside previously. This means that a department will get far less funding for offering courses to students from other majors, emphasizing ones that mostly offer courses to its own students and punishing ones that participate heavily in the Miami Plan."

This was my first opinion piece for The Miami Student. It involved a lot of research into trends in higher education and the changes at the university and broadly discuses my general discontent with the way Miami University has been operated and the path I see it going down. This piece picked up a lot of traction and was shared on social media by the university’s union.

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