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...Bryn Mawr College may have to eliminate most of its graduate programs, cut back some student services, and increase its enrollment and its student-teacher ratio in order to overcome a financial crisis in which the school is slowly eating into its endowment, administrators said this week...
...point, faculty members, fearing that increasing enrollment would result in a decline in student quality, even suggested making Bryn Mawr a coeducational school, but students were "incensed" by that idea, said junior Mili A. Cisneros, president of the Student Government Association...
...proposed cutting back of most of the college's graduate school programs has caused unrest among students. Under the new plan, only Bryn Mawr's "most prestigious" programs, such as Classics, Archaeology, and Art History, would continue to exist, Cisneros said. There are currently graduate programs in 26 fields...
...Students are very concerned about [grad school cuts] because one of the special things about Bryn Mawr is that it's a small school with a graduate school," Posner said...
Another proposal that bothers students is the possible cuts in financial aid, Posner said. Even if the plan goes through, financial aid at Bryn Mawr will still be above the national average, she added...