Help Save the Only PhD Mathematics Program in West Virginia - Support our Petition to Protect WVU's Mathematical Legacy!
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The West Virginia University Provost’s Office is recommending closing the MS and Ph.D. programs in Math. It is the only Ph.D. program in Math in the entire state, and about 10% of all WVU Ph.D.'s are in Math.

Please consider signing this petition to save the program.

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  • ask@kbin.social
    2·
    11 months ago

    Hard to believe they want to shut down the program. A few years ago I did a summer research program with the WVU math department and it was a really great experience.

  • Turkey_Titty_city@kbin.social
    22·
    11 months ago

    no. they don’t. there are too many phd programs. Graduate studies outside of applied fields is a ponzi scheme.

    all a phd program is cheap labor for universities. which is precisely why they want to expand them, so they don’t have to hire faculty.

    there should be far less phd programs in academia period.