MORGANTOWN – Reduction in force notices have started going out at WVU, and the RIF process was at the front of most minds at Monday's Faculty Senate meeting. Chair Frankie Tack choked up during her discussion of the topic, saying a friend and neighbor of hers had just received ...
BY MIKE NOLTING A new option will be available this fall for Medicare-eligible West Virginians through the insurer Peak Health. The company launched in 2021 offering coverage to 32,000 WVU Medicine employees and families and is now ready to enter the consumer market. Peak Health is the only provider-owned, provider-sponsored plan option in the state and is owned by WVU Medicine, Marshall Health, Valley Health and Mountain Health. WVU Medicine President and CEO Albert Wright said open enrollment begins Oct. 15 and runs through Dec. 1 for the plan that provides access to ...
Designed to create a direct pathway for licensed practical nurses to earn their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree, the West Virginia University School of Nursing’s LPN to BSN program will begin accepting applications Dec. 1. Offered on the Keyser Campus at WVU Potomac State College, the program will accept applicants on a rolling admission, meaning if they meet the criteria, they will be admitted at that time. Because of the “first come, first served” admission, the program is expected to fill quickly. Once the class fills, remaining applicants will be placed on a ...
West Virginia native and NASA mathematician and space pioneer Katherine Johnson was celebrated Friday by the West Virginia University Libraries and the West Virginia and Regional History Center. The latest addition to the WVRHC’s Distinguished West Virginians Program was announced and ...
BY MIKE NOLTING Foreign language majors at West Virginia University are learning via email how the teach-out process will be administered. World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (WLLL) is being eliminated as part of WVU’s academic transformation. The WVU Board of Governors voted earlier this month to eliminate approximately 130 programs and more than 140 faculty positions. When the teach-out is complete in foreign languages, only classes in Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and French will remain, but WVU officials have said they are working to develop a partnership with ...
MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito announced this week federal grants to support eight projects at WVU Hospitals, including WVU Medicine Children’s, WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, and an award for the WVU Health Sciences Center. Capito is ranking member of the Senate ...
