GREENSBORO, N.C. — On Wednesday afternoon UCCG students, faculty and staff came together to protest against proposed program cuts on campus.
In total, 19 programs at UNCG are on the chopping block. If removed it could impact 200 students.
This comes after the university faculty senate met to discuss the Academic Program Review (APR).
UNCG's Faculty Senate expressed disapproval of the Chancellor and Provost for not consulting the faculty senate at the start of the APR process.
The senate agreed that they did not receive a clear understanding of the reasoning why certain programs were chosen to potentially be cut.
WFMY News 2 spoke to a student in anthropology, one of the largest programs proposed to be cut.
"My favorite part about this program is the professors I've had. Because it's such a small program we've been able to develop these connections with our professors. For them to be let go within the next few years is very unfortunate." Sophie Wilson said.
UNCG's Chancellor Franklin Gilliam Jr. told WFMY News 2 previously that any student in an affected program will be able to finish it...even if it takes years to complete.
"People will have really quite an extended period of time to make decisions about what it is they want to do. We will continue to teach those courses in those majors until the students have graduated or leave the university," Chancellor Gilliam Jr. said.
For faculty and staff, they'll have a choice to stay or leave.
Today UNCG's Faculty Senate passed a resolution to protect tenured and tenured-tracked faculty who work in some of the proposed program cuts.
UNCG's Chancellor previously said some cuts are due to low enrollment.
"We have lost essentially a whole class of students. Enrollments dropped around 2500 students since 2019. Enrollment equals budget and we are budgeting on the number of students," Gilliam said, "We budget by the state and we've lost a significant portion of our budget."
The university plans to announce a final list of programs to cut on Feb. 1.