MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY--SOME VERY INTERESTING COMMENTS (SEE ESP. #1 AND #2); MORE WELCOME
We noted earlier this summer the mismanagement that precipitated this crisis, but now the details are coming into focus, with dozens of programs, including philosophy, affected. As CHE reports:
In the face of a $45-million deficit, the university’s leadership has decided to cut the entire department of world languages, literatures, and linguistics, among much else. Twelve undergraduate majors and 20 graduate programs will disappear. You will no longer be able to get a bachelor’s degree in German, Spanish, French, Russian, or Chinese, or a graduate degree in mathematics. There will still be some art-history classes, but no art-history major. The recommendations would result in 169 potential reductions in faculty lines. The master’s and doctoral programs in higher-ed administration will also be discontinued.
On top of that, the WVU President Gordon Gee is also proposing contractual conditions for new faculty that are both unconstitutional and violate academic freedom. What a disgrace! Comments are open for links and more information about what's going on. (You must use a valid email address, which will not appear.)
