Vince Herman Band to play Mountain Stage

September 5, 2023

Vince Herman Band with Kat Wright, Larry & Joe, and others will play Mountain Stage Oct. 15 at the WVU Creative Arts Center. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. with the show starting at 7. Tickets are $27-$39 for the general public and $10 for WVU students. Get more information at mountainstage.org. Herman is out to have some fun 33 years after founding Leftover Salmon. He released an album of his own and hit the road to play a batch of songs developed in his new Nashville home. It’s a bit of a departure from the “Salmon sound” as he digs into his idea of what country music ...

Librarian to present banned books lecture

September 5, 2023

Beth Jane Toren, WVU interdisciplinary, culture and film studies librarian, will present a program, “Banned Books and American Culture,” for the WVU retired faculty and staff at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Toren will be sharing perspectives from parents, educators, authors, protestors, young readers and judges. The 1974 Kanawha County West Virginia Textbook Controversy has a significant role as we approach the 50th anniversary. As a 1974 elementary school student who experienced the controversy first-hand, Toren sees the anniversary as an opportunity to reflect and seek peaceful ...

WVU alumni, stakeholders asked to share thoughts on recent proposals

September 1, 2023

BY JARETT LEWIS CHARLESTON — Alumni and stakeholders of West Virginia University are invited to participate in several forum discussions to share their thoughts and vision for the university in the midst of proposed cuts to multiple majors and the elimination of dozens of faculty positions. Create West Virginia held its first of four planned forums in Charleston earlier this week. Participants were given the chance to speak and offer their vision for how they wish to see the institution look for the future. In Morgantown, a session is planned for Wednesday, with a time and ...

Gee describes higher education crisis and WVU transformation at Chamber of Commerce conference

August 31, 2023

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, ...

WVU, Marshall announce initiative to keep college grads in state; Marshall’s Brad Smith talks academic transformation

August 30, 2023

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, ...

Petition: No confidence in Gordon Gee

August 30, 2023

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 ...