MORGANTOWN – WVU President Gordon Gee talked to members of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce on Thursday about the university's Academic Transformation and its $45 million deficit. “Higher education has to change fundamentally,” he said, and he's chronicled that in his new book, ...
MORGANTOWN — Leaders of WVU and Marshall University teamed Monday to introduce a new initiative designed to keep West Virginia college graduates working and prospering here in the Mountain State. And, as West Virginia University struggles through its Academic Transformation process, ...
BY MIKE NOLTING The West Virginia University Faculty Senate has received a petition calling for a vote on a no-confidence resolution for President Gordon Gee and another resolution to freeze the current transformation. The Faculty Senate, which met Monday afternoon, decided to take up the resolutions at a noon meeting Sept. 6. Gee, under fire from the faculty for proposing program cuts and eliminating 169 faculty jobs, acknowledged the stress for everyone involved in the process during Monday’s meeting and admitted higher education in Morgantown is being disrupted, but not ...
MORGANTOWN – The WVU provost's office has heard four appeals in its Academic Transformation program portfolio review process and announced final recommendations in those cases to bring before the Board of Governors. The university will announce further recommendations through Sept. 5 as ...
WVU President Gordon Gee, along with several other WVU representatives, will attend the 2023 West Virginia Chamber Annual Meeting and Business Summit in Greenbrier County this week. Also speaking at the conference will be T. Ramon Stuart, president, WVU Institute of Technology; Dr. Clay Marsh, chancellor and executive dean, WVU Health Sciences; Albert L. Wright Jr., president and CEO, WVU Health System; Susan Lavenski, member, WVU Board of Governors; and Tony Caridi, play-by-play announcer, WVU Athletics. The summit aims to bring together chamber members and leading ...
West Virginia University’s Transformation Initiative recommended the merger of the Department of Mining Engineering with the Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. In a press release, Iron Senergy, an independent energy company, opposes the substance and timing of this proposed merger and is concerned with the negative outcomes to the mining industry by not retaining the specific identity and existing faculty of the Department of Mining Engineering. Iron Senergy and other mining companies are actively hiring mining engineers in multiple positions and roles with ...
