Posted on 08/12/2023 6:19:32 PM PDT by CFW
I took the time to check out their undergrad course catalog.
http://catalog.wvu.edu/undergraduate/courses/
In just looking at the first few courses, I see they offer a lot of accounting courses and courses in sports management. One offering in the latter category is:
ACE 305. Diversity and Sport. 3 Hours.
“Covers historical and current topics relevant to diversity in sport as it relates to current sport practices. Practical strategies for facilitating acceptance of diversity within individual/team sports are discussed.”
Scrolling through the offerings, I could find several courses to cut.
Nick Johnson (YouTube Vlogger) says pretty much the same - The Young kids are leaving (WV is a creepy place)
Eliminate education in all foreign languages along with doctorate degrees in mathematics but keep PUPPETRY. The priorities of the left on full display.
Puppetry
Bachelor’s / Morgantown Campus
Puppetry course work includes intensive study in children’s theatre, the practice of puppetry as a theatrical art form, and educational and creative dramatic activity as methods of learning and self-development for children.
So the Bull Shit majors remain! I wonder what the ROI are on those majors?
The Mathematics degrees are the two degrees that, in part, make a university. It might be a lack of demand. But it has zero to do with any math taught at the high school level.
I’ve see a number of videos online about what they are doing at Hillsdale. Their major initiative is to make it incredibly difficult to be matriculated. They require SATs or ACTs when other schools are eliminating the requirement. They have no identity quotas. You get in based on high school GPA, standardized test scores, an essay and an interview. Because of the high standards they have for students, they do not have remedial courses.
West by God could be doing the same - increasing their standards, cutting remedial courses, and eliminating junk studies and identity Marxism majors. You don’t cut advanced degrees in mathematics. That waters down all the hard sciences degrees you have because advanced mathematics is required for hard sciences, particularly physics, chem, and bio chem. I’m not writing about Newtonian physics or quantum, by the way. The best schools are beyond that and have been for the past 20 years.
“No, but they are cutting Mathematics.”
Of course, they are. Math is racist.
Those are for the football players.
learn to code, mofos
Terminate all of the programs whose names start with “diversity” and end with “studies “, then they will have a functioning university.
It’s possible the graduate programs in mathematics aren’t bringing in enough students. It’s a limited pool of candidates and there are probably better schools.
It never, NEVER occurs to them to cut prices, lower tuition. Real businesses know how to run and stay in business.
If, after lowering prices, some majors / courses still do not attract ‘customers’ then canceling makes sense.
Canceling any courses linked to the woke insanity would make the university a go-to destination.
Gender studies would be fine if they taught only two genders and everything thing else is a psychiatric disease caused by liberalism.
How refreshing to see a university actually cutting expenses to meet income as opposed to saying just give us more funding.
Thinking about this university keeping a Bachelor’s degree in Puppetry makes perfect sense to the left. It provides them unlimited access to the innocent children who escaped the ‘Killing Fields’ of Planned Parenthood while also keeping a steady bench of players capable of pulling the strings of Democrat politicians: the Resident, the Vice Resident, Feinstein, AOC, just for starters.
I dunno but Spanish, Mandarin and Russia languages might be needed.
Bet trade schools are booming.
I wonder if Duolingo is pretty much the same as taking a college language course?
Yeah, you’re right.
People do eventually figure out that you offer crap services or products and avoid you.
That will damage all their science & engineering programs.
Potential employers will look at future WVU science & engineering grads and question whether they are properly trained in math!
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