With West Virginia University planning to eliminate its Department of World Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, students there who want to learn languages will be offered “alternative methods of delivery such as a partnership with an online language app or online partnership with a fellow Big 12 university.” In other words, they'll be outsourcing language learning to other institutions or to private companies like Duolingo (who will surely add this to their claims about having more learners than there are in public educational institutions in the United States). Yet the department "is teaching more than 2700 students this semester", over ten percent of the students at the university's main campus in Morgantown. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 20 August 2023)
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