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Most students don’t want to attend university longer than they have to, and theatre students are no different. But following the Ministry of Advanced Education’s recent decision to postpone UFV’s theatre major program, students who were planning to graduate this academic year with a theatre major now can’t, and are writing letters to the ministry in response.
The UFV Senate announced at its October 16 meeting that the ministry had decided to not approve six new programs as planned, but send them to the Degree Quality Assessment Board (DQAB) for further review instead. These programs included the theatre major, a peace and conflict studies major and minor, a bachelor of media arts program, a bachelor of education program, and an agriculture major.