‘Preparing for the worst:’

Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies faculty at Eastern get warning letters about possible cuts

By: Aaron Hedge

Outlets: RANGE Media

Published: June 24, 2026

Words: 1,122

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago

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Editor’s note: Before this story published, EWU Provost Lorenzo Smith and President Shari McMahan recommended seven of the nine original programs for discontinuance, including Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies, which faculty has recommended for preservation. You can read McMahan’s recommendation here.

At Eastern Washington University, there’s a new metric to determine whether certain kinds of degrees should survive: 10 graduates annually on average for the previous five years. It’s the brainchild of Lorenzo Smith, the …

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