The music faculty of Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, have been informed that the department is to be eliminated at the end of the current academic year. Five full-time faculty and 17 part-time adjuncts will lose their jobs. There will be no freelance teaching. The department of World Languages and Cultures has also been scrapped.
Wittenberg is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and has been a nationally recognized school of music. Among prominent Lutheran musicians who attended Wittenberg are Susan Palo Cherwien, Wayne Wold, and Robert Hobby.
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