West Virginia University has announced it will move to eliminate nearly three dozen degree programs, including the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Linguistics and to discontinue the seven programs it offers and related instructional activity. The university will move to dissolve the departments and all programs and faculty including tenured and non-tenured faculty. Access to these courses is especially important in public higher education, which is often the only route to a degree for many state residents. ACTFL also spoke out on Twitter, stating: “ACTFL supports world language professionals at WVU & urges Gordon Gee & WVU leadership to re-think the short-sighted, proposed elimination of world languages at the state’s flagship university. These faculty are our colleagues, our neighbors and our friends.