West Virginia University going down the Toilet

Oh no. Anyway

Cut the bottom five degrees and programs yearly until the budget balances.

Not that hard.

I think the traditional university model is dying and needs to die.


Spending a shite ton of money to live near/on a campus for 4 years doing a bunch of weird shite isn't cost-effective anymore.


College is too expensive for universities to waste so much money on ridiculous departments and courses.


It doesn't matter what the younger generations want, there isn't going to be enough money in the world to accommodate them. Emotional support centers, this service, or that, it all costs a pretty penny and 98% of the student body is paying thousands a semester for services they'll never use.

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it all costs a pretty penny and 98% of the student body is paying thousands a semester for services they'll never use.

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Seems like a good introduction to what being a contributor is like in today's society.

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Colleges need to move online. Cut 90% of costs, sell buildings, save taxpayers billions a year.

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This works for everything that doesn’t require labs, which are generally in demand roles. Nurses, engineers, etc. those jobs are what we should be promoting.

The number of kids enrolled in business, education and engineering is large and those programs are profitable.

The number of kids majoring in ballet, ceramics and Ancient Greek literature is small and losing money. Cut the five least profitable programs a year until the budget balances.

A kid can still major in ballet, just not at WV.

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West Virginia University going down the Toilet

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Is it 1892?

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Colleges need to move online. Cut 90% of costs, sell buildings, save taxpayers billions a year.

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I agree with you, but this is the opposite of what universities are doing. They are building recreational centers, luxury dorms and offering fashionable but worthless courses of study. The raising tuition and relying on government support and money from student loans. Very few benefit from this.

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Congelio reveals that they discovered a $14 million deficit in for FY 2023

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They could also improve their accounting department.

West fricking Virginia

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The number of kids enrolled in business, education and engineering is large and those programs are profitable.

The number of kids majoring in ballet, ceramics and Ancient Greek literature is small and losing money.

Cut the five least profitable programs a year until the budget balances. A kid can still major in ballet, just not at WV.

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I don’t know what kind of curriculum schools should offer, but I think you’re looking at it all wrong. First, the excess in redundant positions w/in administration should be cut. Then cut the crap that’s obviously not working. They pay 150,000 a year for degreeworks and still cannot keep up with who is graduating. Then they need to re-examine their model which includes curriculum. They are issuing a lot of debt though- selling the future, but the early results are pointing toward bankruptcy.


As for your plan-
Yes engineering should be fine, and universities should pour money into their top programs as always. But even business subsets such as office administration are risky considering AI. I wouldn’t cut programs based on anything other than demand though.