No ‘sacred cows’ as U of Toronto slashes arts budget - Elizabeth Church, Globe and Mail

Faced with a deficit that is set to reach $60-million by the end of the coming school year, the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts and Science cannot afford any “sacred cows” in its efforts to find savings and preserve the quality of education, says the dean in charge of plotting the future of the largest faculty in Canada. That future, laid out in a new five-year plan that provoked protests even before it was released on Wednesday, includes shutting or consolidating high-profile units, including the Centre for Ethics, the Department of East Asian Studies and the Centre for Comparative Literature, a unit begun more than 40 years ago by one of the country’s most accomplished scholars, Northrop Frye.