The Hatchet’s editorial board encourages professors to take the buyout offered by SEAS, and discusses the student role in the school’s new vision.

The School of Engineering and Applied Science has taken on a new direction and as the old adage goes: out with the old and in with the new. For SEAS, research is definitely in.

Last month, the school offered buyout packages to 39 faculty members. The letters to these professors cited a renewed emphasis on research as the motivation for the offers. While this move represents a good one by the University, it also raises concerns over student representation in the process.