How To Save Your University Planning Program
9 June 2004 - 7:00am
Graduate planning programs across the nation are in danger of being cut to save funding.
"Master's-only planning programs like those at Arizona and Rhode Island are increasingly under fire as universities struggle to make ends meet in an era of rising costs, increased tuition, and reduced state and private financial support. Smaller programs are increasingly at risk, simply because when they are analyzed from a cost-benefit perspective, they aren't worth the cost to the universities, says Frederick Steiner, dean of the University of Texas-Austin School of Architecture."
Full Story:
Keeping Afloat
Source:
Planning Magazine, October 24, 2005
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