Last week, the Board of Regents at University of Colorado voted to close the journalism school at the Boulder campus. This marks the first time the university has closed an entire college.

Although the school itself will no longer exist, the university is stressing that its journalism education will continue. The university will no longer have an independent journalism undergraduate program but will instead have a “Journalism Plus” program that will allow students to major in journalism as long as they major in another undergraduate program as well. Students will also be able to minor in journalism or earn a certificate in journalism.

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The university president, Bruce Benson, wrote in a memo to Boulder’s chancellor Phil DiStefano:

While technology is driving rapid change in the field, journalism’s fundamental values of fairness, balance, accuracy, ethics and law remain. Any program we offer should promote those values, regardless of administrative structure.

You can read an article about the closing on the Columbia Journalism Review website.

What are your thoughts on the closing?