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A dozen majors recommended to be axed are undergraduate-level, while 20 are graduate-level majors. The university said the proposed cuts would represent a total of 434 students, or 2% of its total enrollment.

There are 169 potential reductions in faculty, or 7% of the total in Morgantown, WVU said in a news release.[/quote]

This part says it all. 169 faculty members to support the majors of just 434 students. These were not popular majors, but you have overhead to run a department, thus leading to a crazy It's a wise place to cut. 1:2.5 faculty-student ratio, compared to 1:18 WVU-wide.

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1. a lot of people are taking languages, but not majoring in them. I took French because I needed a language for a philosophy major. You also have students coming in who need to take a year to hit graduation requirements.

2. They are cutting faculty in other departments too. The Math department is slated to take a take a big cut, so for everyone saying 'but STEM' in response to language cuts, who teaches all of the math requirements for STEM degrees? They are totally eliminating the graduate school component of the math department which means no more graduate student TAs [/quote]

They will either need to hire more math profs or, more likely, they will just offer fewer classes and have students take longer to graduate.

I don't get the feeling most people are going to WVU for STEM education either, if they have a choice.

More state universities are going to be cutting back to only the most popular, money making programs. [/quote]

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