James Madison University to Eliminate Physics Major, Terminate Contracts

摘要

The administration of James Madi-son University, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, announced on 13 January that it will terminate the contracts of its ten tenured physics faculty in August 1996 and cease offering a physics major as of the 1995-96 academic year. JMU's is the largest US physics program to be eliminated in the last two decades, and the announcement generated intense debate throughout the university and on the other state campuses in Virginia. "It was really a bombshell," said physics professor Raymond Serway.