'My colleagues and I are still in shock.' 32 majors marked for elimination at WVU

[Warpy]

49. I moved out here from Boston

and, while I can't say I never looked back, I know I'd never go back, and I loved Boston.

The state has some jewels, like the Institute of Mining and Technology. I'd stack the life sciences programs at UNM against others, anywhere. The local U isolated hantavirus far ahead of the CDC. Until the cluster of cases here, no one had thought any form of hantavirus existed in N. America. Now we know it's rare but widely disseminated.

So I know these places and programs exist. Money follows money and for wealthy kids to make contacts to make them even wealthier, it takes networking at a big name school that draws other wealthy kids. It's why Bill Gates went off to Harvard. It wasn't a superior education, it was for the superior connections.

That's really the bottom line and why people in WV with the money are going to send their kids out of state.