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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]32 majors are under review. They won’t all get cut.

As another post stated, some will be merged, some will remain the same but with less faculty, some will remain the same and be re-evaluated in the future, and some will be cut.

Many other universities have been doing the same for budget reasons and due to less interest in some majors. It is what it is, they need to keep up with the times. I think it’s a good thing, WV is a poor state. Students should not be going into debt majoring in areas that will not make them enough to pay back.

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Yeah, poor kids don't deserve a rich array of classes, that's true. Limit them, because they don't need any of that fancy stuff.[/quote]

I am from WV and went to a non-flagship state college.

I think they do a huge disservice pushing History and Lit majors, and I am both.  I was valedictorian of my college and it worked out for me.  But for most of my colleagues, it didn’t.

One works at the Greenbriar, so that is OK.  A few others went to grad school and do well.  A few are dead of opioid ODs. The others work in the same mines, factories, or Walmarts they would have anyway.

It’s not wrong to limit the availability of posh majors for non-posh people.[/quote]

Yes because a life of a mind is only something for rich people. And those history and lit classes definitely lead to opioid addiction if you are poor and don't know how to handle them.

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PP here.  Your privilege is showing.  College is expensive and people need it to lead to opportunities.  History and Lit majors need to go to grad school to do much of anything.  A poor person who is a B student at a state school is taking debt for no advantage.

The mid-low end of my majors aren’t living a “life of the mind.”  They are working at gas stations and Walmart, with nothing to show for it.

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My grandad never got a high school diploma, worked his entire career as a clerk. Yet he always had a book to read. He did have a life of the mind, despite having what you'd consider a dead-end job. What a classist, elitist thing to say that only the rich and hoity toity can care about ideas and like to think and read and enjoy culture.

A poor person should be getting a free ride to college anyway. You know how I know? Because I went to college for almost free. My parents paid nothing because they had no money to pay for it, so I relied on financial aid for all 4 years. I did one of those majors you sneer at. And I am grateful for what it taught me.

People who major in subjects you sneer at can become a teacher in those subjects, an honorable and important profession (which I'm sure you think is a dumb choice because it doesn't make enough money to impress you).  But no one even has to pursue a career in their major - only someone without critical thinking skills believes you can only pursue a job in the field of your major.  How many lawyers studied philosophy or history as undergrads? Some of my most capable colleagues studied the humanities, and even though their current jobs have nothing to do with their majors, they still rely on skills honed in college, such as how to write and craft arguments, how to think critically and analyze.
 
It seems you think poor kids should only go to trade school. What a snob. I knew people like you when I was applying to colleges and they told me to be practical and go for the local state schools, that the big name schools I was interested in were beyond my reach. So glad I didn't listen to them.
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