Carleton Clarifies New York Times Piece on Cost-Cutting Measures
Carleton issued the following clarification to a piece in the Friday, June 19 edition of the New York Times entitled “For Colleges, Small Cuts Add Up to Big Savings” in regards to the College’s switch from a six-course to a five-course teaching load for its faculty.
Carleton issued the following clarification to a piece in the Friday, June 19 edition of the New York Times entitled “For Colleges, Small Cuts Add Up to Big Savings” in regards to the College’s switch from a six-course to a five-course teaching load for its faculty.
The article reports, that “in a move that directly involves academics, Carleton, which recently eased teachers’ course loads to five per teacher from six, now plans to return to six courses to save money.”
This statement was inaccurate and the College has been in touch with editors of the paper to clarify. According to Associate Dean of the College Elizabeth Ciner, Carleton has actually delayed the move to five courses for tenured faculty only, half of whom will teach six courses in 2010-11 and half in 2011-2012. Beginning in the fall of 2009, all un-tenured, tenure-track faculty will teach five courses, as planned.