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Universities drank the kool-ade and thought that if they spent and unbelievable amount of money on administration, student perks and sports teams, that would ge

Universities drank the kool-ade and thought that if they spent and unbelievable amount of money on administration, student perks and sports teams, that would generate an exponential growth in enrollment. It did not. The WSJ did a decent article about this a few weeks ago. https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-university-tuition-increase-spending-41a58100 https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-university-tuition-increa... It was hard not to see this coming. Everyone has been talking about how the benefit of a Bachelor's degree is not worth the tuition cost. Covid drove that home when students were paying tens of thousand dollars just to watch videos at home. I could go on and on about this but it just breaks my heart to see how bad universities screwed this up.

BLanen 3y ago
The article clearly states that the programs are financially doing fine and the cuts are ideological. So why is your comment relevant?
- SkipperCat 3y ago
  The author does state what you say at the end of the 2nd paragraph, but in the same paragraph, he said "The reason given for this egregious violation of ethical and professional norms is that the university faces a dire budget crisis, and the administration has no choice but to cut academic programs in order to close their structural budget deficit." And in the third paragraph... "The story of how the university got into such a catastrophic financial position to begin with is a long and complex one" I do not doubt the author's claim that the linguistics dept at WVU was profitable. I also agree with him that these decisions (sensible or not) are born from the massive financial pit they've dug themselves into.
nunez 3y ago
The anonymous insider report linked within this article demonstrates that the financial issues ailing WVU are very specific to WVU and that other universities in its class are doing fine by comparison.
polski-g 3y ago
Gen-Z is 30% smaller than the generation that came before. Universities should be better at math.

BLanen 3y ago

The article clearly states that the programs are financially doing fine and the cuts are ideological. So why is your comment relevant?

SkipperCat 3y ago
The author does state what you say at the end of the 2nd paragraph, but in the same paragraph, he said "The reason given for this egregious violation of ethical and professional norms is that the university faces a dire budget crisis, and the administration has no choice but to cut academic programs in order to close their structural budget deficit." And in the third paragraph... "The story of how the university got into such a catastrophic financial position to begin with is a long and complex one" I do not doubt the author's claim that the linguistics dept at WVU was profitable. I also agree with him that these decisions (sensible or not) are born from the massive financial pit they've dug themselves into.

nunez 3y ago

The anonymous insider report linked within this article demonstrates that the financial issues ailing WVU are very specific to WVU and that other universities in its class are doing fine by comparison.

polski-g 3y ago

Gen-Z is 30% smaller than the generation that came before. Universities should be better at math.