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...Much of MSU's problem can be traced to what Mackey calls its attempt to "be all things to all people." Founded as the original land-grant college. MSU has based its development and curriculum on the philosophy of providing good education for a wide variety of people. Today, the university serves more than 40,000 students, boasting the second-largest on-campus population in the nation...
...land-grant philosophy has caused the university problems on what it must offer students. While every part of the state budget is trimmed to save costs, MSU is expected to increase appropriations for its agricultural programs. Cuts in other areas lead some to cry that MSU is reneging on its duty to serve all kinds of people. As a result, many identify MSU as an "overextended" university...
Never in academic history have such cuts been envisioned as MSU now proposes. At the outset of the crisis, more than 200 tenured positions were threatened with elimination. Now, even with the scaled-down proposals, 108 tenured faculty members may fall victim to fiscal austerity in 1982-83, although some observers think that only 50 tenured professors may lose their jobs...
Horne, who serves as chairman of the steering committee of the faculty, plays down the long-range implications, maintaining that tenure cannot always provide job guarantees. "It's difficult, almost impossible, to get tenure at Harvard. At MSU, its been very easy to get tenure, almost automatic. So its in a different context altogether...
...pitted department against department, college against college, students against faculty." Collette Moser. MSU associate professor of agricultural economics...