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doing away with the doctoral math program. ... who needs a ph.d. in math anyway? It's not like there are any other fields besides math that use higher math skills...right?[/quote]

Yes, Math departments provide many service courses on calculus and differential equations for engineers or science majors.  But the Ph.D. math classes are extremely abstract.  Most WVU Math Ph.D. graduates probably spend five years to get jobs in industry as glorified programmers.

Ph.D. students will flounder without enough research mathematicians in their area of interest.  It is expensive to staff enough research mathematicians to guide Ph.D. students through modern research in number theory, topology, algebraic geometry, and stuff I don't comprehend.  It appears that WVU math is not large enough and good enough to support a functional Ph.D. program.   It will be better to consolidate math into fewer large Ph.D. programs than small dysfunctional ones.

WVU can continue to teach graduate math and undergraduate languages without offering the Ph.D. math degree and undergraduate majors in languages.[/quote]

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