Posted on 08/12/2023 6:19:32 PM PDT by CFW
West Virginia University leaders have recommended discontinuing 32 of its majors at its Morgantown campus as the school is feverishly working to make up for a multi-million budget shortfall.
The preliminary recommendations, released Friday afternoon, said 12 of those programs are undergraduate majors and 20 are graduate-level majors. Other programs were told to reduce their faculty size — 169 faculty jobs are on the line for cuts.
Programs marked for discontinuation included: master’s and doctorate in Mathematics; master’s and doctorate in Higher Education Administration; master’s of Public Administration; master’s of fine arts in Creative Writing; and a bachelor’s in Recreation, Parks and Tourism Resources.
The Department of World Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, which includes Spanish, Russian and Chinese studies, was marked to be completely dissolved.
“My colleagues and I are still in shock; it’s inconceivable that our state flagship, R1, land-grant university, the place where we’ve all built our homes, careers and lives is completely eliminating the teaching of languages,” said Lisa Di Bartolomeo, a teaching professor of Russian Studies.
(Excerpt) Read more at westvirginiawatch.com ...
I don't see any DIE or Women's Basket Weaving studies being canceled, but maybe this college had not yet added those courses.
It's a shame to see Mathematics cut but it may be that these are courses that should have been taught in high school. Or, that no one is signing up for the math classes so it is a waste of funds to pay faculty to teach those courses. But, I'm glad to see these two on the chopping block:
PhD Higher Education
EdD Higher Education Administration
Is gender studies on the cut list?
Well, bye.
related article from 8/8/23:
“WVU president Gee to step down in 2025 “
https://westvirginiawatch.com/briefs/wvu-president-gee-to-step-down-in-2025/
“Last week, the WVU Board of Governors voted to extend Gee’s contract through June 20, 2025. His base salary is $800,000.
University leaders plan to cut 12 graduate and doctorate programs and is evaluating nearly half of its academic programs to make up for the budget deficit. Additionally, officials identified 590 full-time faculty member positions they will review under the departments up for evaluation; roughly 130 jobs will be cut as part of a $7 million in staff reduction.
Academic department leaders have turned in their self-evaluations, which university leaders will use to determine what programs will be cut.
The board is expected to vote Sept. 15 on what programs to discontinue and an appeals process will follow. “
“Is gender studies on the cut list?”
I didn’t see gender studies on the list. Is there hope that they did not have such a course in the first place?
I went there for a four day weekend. I almost died.
I have no clue how anyone graduates.
No, but they are cutting Mathematics.
The decisions regarding which programs to discontinue were based on student enrollment trends, enrollment in majors and departments, and department-level metrics including full-time faculty-to-student ratio and programs’ financial status.
No indication wokeness eliminated though.
But where will the next generation of “Dr.”
Jill Bidens, EdD come from?!?
The MS and PhD in Math are the only real loss, and I'm guessing that is because they do not have sufficient enrollment to justify faculty / infrastructure.
Women’s and gender studies seems to be going strong:
https://womensgenderstudies.wvu.edu/faculty-and-staff
Once schools went remote during the COVID-1984 lockdowns, how would such a school come back?
“No, but they are cutting Mathematics.”
I wonder whether the Masters and Doctorate was in real math or (ptui-ptui) math eddikashun? You know, the type that’s supposed to compensate for all that corrupt white supremacist real stuff that’s quite difficult.
WVU has experienced a decrease in enrollment over the past seven years due to population decline in the state of West Virginia
It’s all about the bottom line. If students were paying for the classes, they’d still be offered. It has nothing to do with ethics or practicality.
The courses being cut in Mathematics are graduate level courses which are not expected to be taught in high school. The likely reason is that there are few if any applicants for grad degrees. The subject matter can be very esoteric.
My granddaughter goes there Ag business major.
Board of Governors voted to extend Gee’s contract through June 20, 2025. His base salary is $800,000.... That is at least double that of the President of the USA, if I am not mistaken. They cut in the wrong place to begin with.
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