For weeks now, there's been an uproar at West Virginia University.

Students and faculty have been protesting big changes that the administration is trying

to push through.

There were hundreds of students and faculty and local residents who came out in the protest

to place outside what's known as the mountain layer, that's the student union, the hub

of the campus, and they had their bull horns and they had plenty of chance.

Our colleague Melissa Corn has been covering what's happening at West Virginia University.

Over the summer, the administration proposed a massive restructuring, scrapping dozens of

academic programs and laying off over 160 faculty members.

The students were really riled up and they've continued to be the reason for the cuts,

a huge hole in the school's budget.

The president came out and said, hey, we're facing significant financial troubles.

We have this deficit of about $45 million if we don't do something with next year's budget.

If we keep on this course, that could go up to $75 million by 2028.

And West Virginia University is not the only school where this kind of thing is playing

out.

For decades, public universities across the country have spent lavishly to attract students.

Now they're finding themselves in deep financial trouble.

West Virginia is, in many ways, a poster child for the challenges and the mistakes in higher

education right now.

And they're not unique.

And I think that's one of the big scary parts of all this is they're not exactly an outlier

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