If there is really a budget crisis at Exeter, why are all the cuts coming from humanities and social science?

A propos this earlier post, another Exeter faculty member asks, [W]hy, even if they need to make savings, are these overwhelmingly concentrated on humanities and social sciences? 85% of all staff placed at risk of redundancy (445 out of 523 FTE) are based in HASS (humanities and social sciences). That amounts to a 30% cut […]