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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is completely nuts to think that a flagship land grant university should replace its entire foreign language department with duolingo.  They also are decimating the English department.

These are the bread and butter courses of an undergraduate education.

[b]Gordon Gee is a disgrace who keeps failing into more jobs. The WVU he leaves behind will be slowly collapsing shell rather than an important pillar of the economy. [/b][/quote]

I never see anyone think anything negatively of him. He's really not been great for the university, tbh. I'm a '07 graduate of WVU and loved my time there. I received an excellent education and was able to go on to a top graduate program and then top med school to become a Psychiatrist.

I have not kept up with the WV state policies, but when I was a student there, WV residents who passed certain exams (like the VA SOLs) with a particular score received a Promise Scholarship to attend WVU for pretty much nothing. I know when I attended, my roommates were both WV residents and paid less than $1000 each per semester to attend. I think I paid $14k-ish. The problem with the policy is that the resident graduates didn't stay in the state of WV and help the state economy. They received a great education for next to nothing and then moved to better states to secure jobs. https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/education/majority-of-wv-public-college-grads-leave-state-for-work/article_a9f5cfa3-69b6-5276-8302-e1943406cf16.html.

Enrollment across all colleges is down. It's not special to WVU. Most universities are seeing the decline because Gen-Z has mostly realized that going into debt for an education is not worth it.

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Plenty of people think very negatively about Gee. He used to regularly insult Catholics and schools he thought were lesser. Personally, I love the irony of him presiding over a terrible school becoming a joke after complaining that SEC students need to learn how to read and write. [/quote]

Yeah he spent like $8 million of Ohio state’s money on redoing his mansion and buying bow ties[/quote]

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