Is the provost the guy I need to be talking to?

Long story short, we have a lack of funding in my specific college, and even worse of a problem in my department. This has caused a lack of teachers, and now a lack of elective classes. I'm actually trying to learn about what I'm interested in, so taking completely unrelated electives seems pointless to me.

I do know that 60% of our funding was taken over the past couple of years, and obviously that has fricked us. Now, I am having grad students that haven't ever taught before teaching me junior level classes.

I have talked to a couple of teachers, the dean of my department, and the dean of my college. I am basically hitting a wall with everyone. Just teling me that the state doesn't have money isn't sufficient of an answer. Why in the hell do people need to major in English and Literature? That just wastes money and throws out completely unproductive students. Most of the people I have classes with don't even know how to correctly write lab reports. I don't need to read a book about some chick that hid in an attic while hiding from the Nazis. That has no benefit to me, and I suspect most other people.

Is the provost the guy who controls the money within the university? Do I just need to raise hell with everyone I can, or should I focus directly on him? I don't know the structure of university administration, so I don't know where to concentrate my efforts.