Wright State University is adding and eliminating program offerings to better align with regional and student needs, and has made progress on a state-mandated plan to get students to graduate the university ready to work.
The university’s “completion plan,” a state-required, biannual report requiring public universities to consider how to best serve students, also showed some success from 2024, when the last report was submitted.
Ohio’s Senate Bill 1, passed last summer, requires Ohio’s public universities to cut programs with fewer than 15 graduates over three years.
Wright State previously eliminated 15 programs under S.B. 1, including bachelor of arts degrees in African-American studies; women and gender studies; philosophy; chemistry and several others.
Dawn Wooley, the university’s faculty president, said the faculty has been doing ongoing work to better the curriculum going beyond meeting requirements in S.B. 1. Several changes were approved to individual courses, she said, and while incremental, they are important, such as keeping with latest licensure requirements.
