WVU cutting 32 majors, all foreign languages

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/tenure/2023/08/11/west-virginia-universitys-unprecedented-proposed-cuts-become

“It’s hard to imagine any university, anywhere in the world, not teaching world languages, let alone the state flagship, land-grant, R1 university in a state like West Virginia,” said Lisa Di Bartolomeo, a teaching professor of Russian studies at West Virginia, noting that the state has faced a brain drain for generations and has low “intercultural competencies.”

Why would anyone take Russian studies at WVU?

Because they are in-state at WVU and that's their flagship? There's a lot of military kids who might be particularly interested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/tenure/2023/08/11/west-virginia-universitys-unprecedented-proposed-cuts-become

“It’s hard to imagine any university, anywhere in the world, not teaching world languages, let alone the state flagship, land-grant, R1 university in a state like West Virginia,” said Lisa Di Bartolomeo, a teaching professor of Russian studies at West Virginia, noting that the state has faced a brain drain for generations and has low “intercultural competencies.”

Why would anyone take Russian studies at WVU?

Because they are in-state at WVU and that's their flagship? There's a lot of military kids who might be particularly interested.

Apparently not. People get upset at cuts like this bc it's just what they are used to and what they know and they can't imagine things changing. Look at Marymount. They are cutting majors that are under subscribed and they have had one of their largest incoming classes this fall that they have had in years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/tenure/2023/08/11/west-virginia-universitys-unprecedented-proposed-cuts-become

“It’s hard to imagine any university, anywhere in the world, not teaching world languages, let alone the state flagship, land-grant, R1 university in a state like West Virginia,” said Lisa Di Bartolomeo, a teaching professor of Russian studies at West Virginia, noting that the state has faced a brain drain for generations and has low “intercultural competencies.”

Why would anyone take Russian studies at WVU?

Because they are in-state at WVU and that's their flagship? There's a lot of military kids who might be particularly interested.

Apparently not. People get upset at cuts like this bc it's just what they are used to and what they know and they can't imagine things changing. Look at Marymount. They are cutting majors that are under subscribed and they have had one of their largest incoming classes this fall that they have had in years.

It's different at a place like Marymount--but this is WVU is the primary state flagship. I know it's not a well-regarded one, but still.

[Anonymous]

WVU is the state flagship university of West Virginia, you all are expecting far too much.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Yeah these programs and professors needed to be cut. Do you think Gee woke up one morning and said goodbye liberal arts… No. He put together a team and removed the cancer from the uni. Bravo nice work, tenure ship is hard to dissolve but not impossible