Divorce = Spending More Money

From a Reader:

So, did you hear that the English dept will be split in two? It will become a "Department of Writing & Rhetoric" and a "Department of English."

The new dept will begin with 7 tenured faculty and approximately 10 instructors. It is to have at least 6 administrators: Director of Composition, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, Director of University Writing Center, all of whom will be overseen by a Director of Writing Outreach Programs; also a Director of Writing Degree Programs who will oversee a yet-to-be-created BA, MA, and grad certificate. And of course a chair, who has the Director of Writing Outreach Programs and Director of Writing Degree Programs reporting to him. Over the next four years, the new dept will hire 6 new tenure track faculty and 30 more instructors. All of this is to be announced tomorrow and will be in place by next fall.

Good thing UCF saved all that money by laying off faculty in engineering and COHPA, isn't it? Now UCF gets to have two English departments. Isn't that a joke--that in hell, the provost manages two English departments?