That statement coming from president of the Association of New Brunswick Teachers, Miriam Jones, in response to the announcement that U-N-B is making cuts to academic programming. Jones, who teaches at U-N-B Saint John tells CHSJ News the budget cuts threatens UNB's status as a comprehensive university and means the school will graduate fewer teachers, nurses, engineers, lawyers, computer scientists, biologists and psychologists in years to come.
Jones says if we don't have a reputation as a comprehensive university, granting agencies aren't likely to look favourably on applications from people from UNB, meaning the school will get fewer grants and less research will get done.
She tells us that resources are already stretched too thin on the academic side, and if they get even thinner, UNB would be in danger of not actually being comprehensive enough to call itself a real university, it would be more like a polytechnic or professional school.
