At Small Colleges, Smaller Departments

[...]Blanchard is the department chair as well as the utility instructor, serving the 1,450-student college’s general-education needs and at the same time offering enough different religion courses to graduate a handful of religion majors and minors every year. At Mills College, in Oakland, Calif., a 2017 reorganization cut the number of departments from 18 to 13 — and merged Margaret Hunter’s department, sociology, into the new department of social and historical studies (which also includes philosophy). [...]she says she is one of just a handful of small-college faculty members nationally whose research is in nonhuman primates — in her case, studying how chimpanzees, gorillas, and capuchin monkeys make decisions when they’re surrounded by other members of their groups.