UNLV Eliminates Academic Programs Which Don't Advance Football

Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum

UNLV .. does have experience with eliminating programs .. [which do not further] the university's mission.

The mission of UNLV is to play football. Very few jocks major in computer science or engineering. Those programs do *nothing* to provide jocks with the academic cover necessary to make them NCAA eligible. Therefore, they're prime candidates for elimination.

Smatrick must EXPAND the number of jock majors. It looks really bad when 90% of the jocks major in Interdisciplinary. BTW, here are the requirements for that Jockology department:

Notice they wouldn't challenge a 5th grader. Nevertheless, few jocks can get through the "program".