Kwantlen Polytechic makes cuts to music program

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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – The Music Studies program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University will be looking a bit thinner next year – because of budget cuts, no new applications are welcome.

When the Langley campus had to cut 25 Fine Arts courses, they cut them all from the music program.

Kwantlen Music Students Association president Emma Dotto says the decision will absolutely impact the school’s reputation.

“This is going to tarnish the program, it’s going to tarnish the ensembles,” she says. “I think the numbers will drop, students will stop applying because they can’t trust an institution that betrayed them.”

She’s encouraging her fellow students to write to the Dean and hopefully reverse the call.

It’s her third year in the program, but Dotto says it won’t be as great as she imagined because there’s no one to mentor.

“They are not only affecting a handful of students, but they are affecting a community of music supporters and music educators and musicians,” she says.

For its part, KPU says it wants to keep the program strong, but it also needs to be financially sustainable.

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