Miami University students push back against plan to shrink the humanities department

Students at Miami University are speaking out after the university's provost announced intentions to shrink the humanities department and combine some of its majors due to low enrollment.

Provost Elizabeth Mullenix informed faculty in the department of the situation before the start of the semester and asked them to help develop a plan to keep some of its humanities majors alive.

Since then, the future of humanities at Miami has remained a mystery, according to students on campus who say they only found out about the situation through the university's student news outlet the Miami Student, which reported on the plan in late September.

The move puts majors like art history, critical race and ethnic studies, and Latin American studies in jeopardy, which inspired students from Miami's Latiné Student Alliance to speak out.