Alex is back and sorting through some serious reactions to the announcement of WVU's "transformation" that includes the erasure of 32 programs, hundreds of students, and seven percent of the faculty through reduction-in-force measures (0:00). Then Lisa Di Bartolomeo, Teaching Professor of Russian Studies and Slavic and East European Studies, joins the show to detail what's next for those hoping to keep WVU's world language programs alive (10:36). Up next, Lori D'Angelo, a former teaching assistant with the MFA Creative Writing program, discusses her shock to see the entire program on the chopping block (27:18). Alex wraps the bottom-of-the-show with a brief discussion on the origins of WVU's $45 million budget crisis (36:18).
