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Oct 10, 2023 | chronicle.com | Crystal Lake |in Dayton

By now most people who work in higher education have some awareness of the crisis unfolding at West Virginia University. This summer, for the first time in WVU’s history, administrators announced plans to lay off 143 faculty members, many of them tenured or on the tenure track. Twenty-eight programs are slated for closure, a lethal blow to a vital public institution in one of the nation’s poorest states.