[game_edu] Game studies and the economy

[Brena Smith]

So it seems I've started quite the conversation here...just to steer it back
to education a little - do you all think there are too many programs out
there?  Do you foresee some schools shutting down programs altogether?
Someone early on in this thread stated that he knew of a school that had
prepared to hire faculty - only to shut down the search due to the budget.

This kind of thing is happening all over universities and colleges - from
history departments to the sciences - and libraries for that matter (I'm a
librarian).  But I wonder if the fall-out for game studies might be greater
in the long run due to its "new-ness" (for lack of a better term).  Once the
economy recovers (here's hoping), and endowments and grants gets back on
track (again, here's hoping), history and science departments will continue
to grow and develop - for the most part, this is hiatus.  Will it be the
same for game studies?

And thanks for all of your thoughts - they have all been interesting.

Best,
Brena


On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Mike Reddy <Mike.Reddy at newport.ac.uk>wrote:


> Games Grads in UK has been cancelled. I talked to the head of Tandem, who

> fortunately still have the Develop Conference to fall back on, and he

> confirmed that only 5 companies were prepared to exhibit, compared with over

> 1000 registered students for the Manchester event. Other potential

> exhibiters either had job freezes or were making people redundant. Sent a

> really chilling message to more than the 17 students I was going to drive up

> there! Morale is lower than low now!

>

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