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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My name is Jonah Katz; I'm an associate professor of linguistics at West Virginia University.

skyrocketing administrative personnel costs and excessive debt associated with a failed growth strategy [and] (declining enrollment, COVID, and inadequate state funding).

To be honest, I don't know if anything that we can do will help the situation.[/quote]

Hey Jonah, sorry for your loss (and WVU's).  I'm a professor, and hate the administrative bloat, where administrative spending exceeds faculty spending.

Due to demographics, declining enrollments will hit many schools.  Students are not majoring in humanities, and the state is not willing to fund them.  I don't blame them.  Let's face it, in a nation with millions of immigrants, there are much cheaper ways to learn languages.

It appears this was done in a rough way.  But you are not suggesting alternative cost cuts, nor tuition increases.  It seems like you need to go to an institution that values linguistic scholarship more than WVU.[/quote]

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