The GPSA executive board discussed admissions for WSU graduate degree programs, as well as upcoming Professional Development Initiative events during a meeting Thursday. Rabayet Sadnan, GPSA awards and scholarship chair, asked if certain departments were not admitting graduate students for master’s and doctoral programs because of the pandemic. The WSU Department of Sociology decided not to recruit students for fall 2021. The Department of Sociology usually admits up to 10 students seeking a doctorate each year, according to the department’s website. “Overall applications have been declining year to year by 5 to 10 percent,” said Lisa Gloss, dean of WSU’s Graduate School. “Applications for this year are not that far down, but it’s too early in the cycle to tell.”