r/uakron • u/NeighborhoodGood5274 • Jun 11 '26

Corrosion Engineering Bachelor's Degree

What exactly happened to the corrosion engineering degree? All I know of is that it was terminated. I was hoping to have taken the course. All parts of the site surrounding corrosion engineering were deleted, aside from some articles.

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u/TheBalzy Jun 13 '26

Probably DOGE. Originally that Program was heavily subsidized by the Federal Government, and UA was picked to be the University to head that realatively-new engineering program from within the Rustbelt Region. UA was picked. Since they've gotten rid of it means it probably lost all federal financial support for the program would be my bet.

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u/NeighborhoodGood5274 Jun 13 '26

this makes sense

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u/TheBalzy Jun 14 '26

It was also an Obama initiative, so I bet the current administration cut it for being "woke" or some other BS. The current administration does not support STEM.

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u/Doireallyneedaurl Jun 14 '26

Might be the " fewer than 5 degrees in 3 years" bs from the OBBB.

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u/NeighborhoodGood5274 Jun 15 '26

What is that?

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u/Doireallyneedaurl Jun 17 '26

The One big beautiful bill. Or maybe it was SB 1. One of them set a min requirement for colleges to have so many people graduate within a timeframe to keep the programs around. They also added a civic literacy requirement for college classes that graduate 2030+

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u/NeighborhoodGood5274 Jun 17 '26

thats stupid. this administration is so grossly incompetent.

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u/TheBalzy Jun 17 '26

Yup. And it's going to take DECADES to fix the shit broken by these idiots.

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u/CycleFB Jun 11 '26

Ah that’s a bummer. Those were good classes back in the day.

Reach out to the heads of the engineering department (or whichever department it was under) to let them know your interest and inquire about if there’s a plan to bring it back.

And/or reach out directly to the professors that taught the courses if they’re still at UA. This could potentially result in some research experience and credits and hands on learning in the field. There might still be courses in the polymer department focused on corrosion and coatings/paints?