During this pandemic, the higher education sector has taken a hit. Just like several other Liberal Arts colleges across the nation, Monmouth College is watching all economics they are facing, including their offered programs, says Dean of Faculty Mark Willhardt:
“We have gone through across the college and looked at our budgets and reduced those. We have made some changes in other areas across the way and I think as we look at staffing, staffing is one of those areas where not because we want to change the program necessarily, but because there is an economic necessity sometimes to look at that. Our faculty have been involved in discussion all along the way about these things and I think no matter what happens, we feel good about the programs that we are offering, we feel they are the right programs that we should have. Liberal Arts colleges change their curricula, they change what they offer all the time and if we feel like there is a shift that needs to be made, that will be a decision we take together,” states Willhardt.
As for studying abroad, Willhardt reports that has been halted, but the College has partnered with the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and opened a Field Museum in Chicago for students to go study and intern at the museum.
