Rozema, now a senior, was doing just that, rehearsing on stage for the department’s performance of “The Tempest” when she heard the news: University leaders had proposed ending the theater program she loves. They also wanted to end UNK’s philosophy program, where her father, David Rozema, has taught for 30 years. “It was tragically poetic being in the middle of something that UNK wanted to take away,” Rozema said. The University of Nebraska’s most small-town campus has proposed axing 13 majors, many of them – like theater, French, German and music performance – in the areas of the arts and humanities. These proposed cuts, which would help close a $4.3 million budget gap at UNK, are just the start of even bigger slashes into the university budget at each of its four campuses.
