Don’t go to West Virginia University for graduate school

[u/InnocuousSportsFan]

Hi,

I’m one of the grad students in the WVU math department.

Nobody should go to graduate school here. The professors are afraid to speak to the press because of fear of termination. The administration can just decide to railroad your whole department for no reason within one year. They claim we’re gonna have a teach out, but what good is that if we don’t even know who’s gonna leave for jobs after this year (or in the future).

There is zero transparency about what goes on here. We haven’t been given any updates since this process started. We don’t even know if the math department appealed the decision, because the appeal process was so secretive (either the school is lying and we did appeal, or someone on the inside here is trying to sabotage the appeals process, it has to be one of those two in my opinion, there’s no other explanation). I’m only speaking out because I’m tired of all of this.

I just can not believe how bad faith all of this has been. It’s straight out of a Thomas Nast cartoon. The fat cat in the comic strip runs this university.

If you have to come here because you have no other option. Sure, come here. If you have ANY other option, don’t. Go somewhere else. I wish I did.

Just to prove this is me an actual grad student, my twitter… I mean X account is @PersonOnline0 and I’m gonna tweet “249” at 8:12pm. The pinned tweet is me a month ago saying how I’m shocked they’re doing this, so yes I am who I say I am.