West Virginia University is sparing some of its world languages programming as it slashes its academic offerings to correct a $45 million budget shortfall. Instead of cutting language offerings entirely, the public flagship institution said Tuesday it would preserve instruction in Chinese and Spanish — but not as full majors. It will offer elective classes, and potentially minors, in those languages while phasing out all other language programming and degrees, including in German and Russian. WVU offers eight languages. Initially, WVU said it would cut all of its 24 language faculty members. Now, it will look to keep five faculty members and move them to a yet-to-be-determined department.
