A chilling act of retribution or typical budgetary constraints?
That’s the question being asked at the University of South Carolina-Upstate this week after the administration announced $450,000 in cost cuts for the next school year. The most notable elimination is the shuttering of the school’s Center for Women’s and Gender Studies.
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