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 ...
The Gee administration over the last 10 years pursued an explosion of building projects. If you drove through Morgantown, it seemed there was a new building or building renovation every block. It gave the impression to many that WVU was awash with funds. The Gee administration acted as if they were convinced that student population growth would go on forever. They bought the old Mylan pharmaceutic plant building supposedly for their “Innovation Center” all they’ve done with it is rent out space.
Gee should have resigned immediately after this announcement!
Note the state - WV has a “$1.1 billion above estimate” budget surplus. However, none of that should be used to bail out WVU unless Gee and his “administrative” straphangers are gone!
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