An open letter to Wayne State's Board of Governors from Stuart Henry, professor and chair, and Roslyn Schindler, associate professor and deputy chair of Wayne State's Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, is included on the editorial page. The letter addresses the recent proposal to close the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs and to relocate its constituent units to other parts of the university. Specifically, the writers focus on the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and calls for its relocation into an academic college such as the College of Education or College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.