Monday, April 19, 2021

Change in budget and demand led to WMU major and minor removal - Mya Vassal & Chloe Miller, Western Herald

Western Michigan University’s Board of Trustees voted to remove a major and minor for the upcoming academic year during their Thursday, March 18 meeting. Satish Deshpande, dean of the Haworth College of Business, said the removal was in response to the marketplace. “When you come into a program, you want a state of the art program where there’s a demand in the marketplace,” Deshpande said. “It’s like selling products. You could be selling the best VCRs out there, but the market doesn’t want VCRs anymore. They’ve moved on to other things.” The Health Informatics and Information Management (HiiM) major and the Automotive Systems minor were the programs removed for next year. Desphande said changes like these in programs are a healthy sign of an institution. 

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