West Virginia University is facing a budget shortfall and is forced to make some cuts:
West Virginia University leaders have recommended discontinuing 32 of its majors at its Morgantown campus as the school is feverishly working to make up for a multi-million budget shortfall.
The preliminary recommendations, released Friday afternoon, said 12 of those programs are undergraduate majors and 20 are graduate-level majors. Other programs were told to reduce their faculty size — 169 faculty jobs are on the line for cuts...
The Department of World Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, which includes Spanish, Russian and Chinese studies, was marked to be completely dissolved...
The university is also reviewing plans to eliminate the language requirement for all majors. “Eliminating language instruction will close avenues of opportunity, career advancement, and personal fulfillment for current and future WVU students,” she added.
The cuts, if approved, will affect 147 undergraduate and 287 graduate students, which the university noted was less than 2% of total student enrollment.
In addition to the World Languages department, the following programs will be eliminated:
Not being touched are Women's and Gender Studies and other Aggrieved Victims Studies. No doubt the high standards and perceived status of such programs make them extremely popular with students.
- MA Higher Education Administration
- MA Multicategorical Special Education
- PhD Higher Education
- EdD Higher Education Administration
- MM Collaborative Piano
- MM Composition
- MM Jazz Pedagogy
- MFA Acting
- PhD Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences
- MLS Legal Studies
- MPA Public Administration
- MS Mathematics
- PhD Mathematics
- MFA Creative Writing
- MS Energy Environments
- PhD Resource Management
- BSR Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Resources
- BS Environmental and Community Planning
- BSLA Landscape Architecture
- MSLA Landscape Architecture
- BA Agribusiness Management — This program will be discontinued and merged with the BS in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics resulting in a single new program and major.
- BS Environmental and Energy Resource Management This program will be discontinued and merge with the BS in Energy Land Management resulting in a single new program and major.
- BS Environmental and Natural Resource Economics — This program will be discontinued and merge with the BS in Agribusiness Management resulting in a single new program and major.
Additionally, several programs were marked for the development of a cooperative program, including:
- BS Energy Land Management
- BSF Forest Resource Management
- BSF Wood Science and Technology
3 comments:
if they're not cutting administration jobs, then they're not serious.
I can see cutting some of the music and fine arts programs, because I'm sure that the number of students aren't with the cost.
That said, reading the program notes of Apollo's Fire concerts, I am both surprised (out of ignorance about musical education) and impressed by the scholarship of some of the performers.
They are cutting non-faculty too:
"West Virginia University is cutting a dozen graduate programs, as well as roughly 130 employees, as it attempts to correct a $45 million budget shortfall."
"Of the employee cuts, more than 30 were on the faculty side, though none were tenure or tenure-track positions."
https://www.highereddive.com/news/west-virginia-university-cuts-7m-in-staff-amid-budget-crunch/653913/
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