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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tweets by a self-proclaimed WVU Faculty Member
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More cuts than just to foreign languages:

Computer science and electrical engineering: eliminate 4 of 32 faculty
Mining engineering: eliminate 1 of 6 faculty
Civil and Environmental Engineering: eliminate 6 of 20 faculty
Pharmacy: Eliminate 8 of 41 faculty FTE
Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering: eliminate 2 of 7 faculty
Chemistry: Eliminate 5 of 28 faculty
Plant and Soil Sciences: Eliminate 11 of 21 faculty

The above are "practical" majors, and I am surprised they're taking any cuts.

Meanwhile:

Women's and Gender Studies: No cuts

This is the opposite of what you'd expect a RW administration to do, but who knows.

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Cutting Engineering and Pharmacy is eating the seed corn. Cutting the fossil fuel departments in WV is really calling into question whether they are actually serious there about having a comprehensive 4-year public university in the state at all.

German, okay, Creative Writing, okay, it's not a lib arts powerhouse but the specialized state-specific professional tracks too?

Alabama and Mississippi have somehow figured out that big merit aid discounts and sports/fun reputation can still attract plenty of outsiders to your low-growth low-income state but yet West Virginia, which sits next to the best-educated most affluent region in the country (that's us, kids), and is like an hour from Pittsburgh, is going "welp better close up shop then".

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