NCC faculty angered by plan to consolidate courses, merge departments
Joie Tyrrell, newsday.com/ Photo Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.
A plan to consolidate courses and merge departments at Nassau Community College to help meet a multimillion dollar deficit has angered faculty who recently approved a vote of no confidence in the school’s top leadership.
Officials with Nassau Community College in Garden City say that the school is facing a roughly $14 million deficit in the 2024-25 budget and have drafted a new academic structure that they say will make the college eventually run more efficiently in the long-term. The plan includes consolidating more than 20 academic areas of study down to six departments.