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Colleagues at #WestVirginiaUniversity (#WVU) are suffering the closure of their department *despite* meeting all neoliberal/corporate university funding goals (i.e. the department is a profit center through grants, etc). The bloated administration apparently faces structural problems in its budget and the only way to fix it is to close whole programs.
Horrifying. Jonah Katz, one of the affected profs, would like us to help spread the word: https://community.wvu.edu/~jokatz/Closure/