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 ...
The president of a national teacher union is pushing back on proposed academic cuts at West Virginia University. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, sent a letter to the WVU Board of Governors to call proposed cuts “draconian and catastrophic.” “The scope and nature of these cuts raise fundamental questions about WVU’s commitment to its students, its surrounding community and the state,” Weingarten wrote. West Virginia University officials responded by describing appreciation for the letter while countering some of its ...
MORGANTOWN – At a mostly informational Tuesday special meeting about WVU's Academic Transformation, the Board of Governors learned that, so far, 19 of the 25 academic units called out for review have appealed proposed cuts. Associate Provost Mark Gavin mentioned this during an update of ...
After rains turned off plans for West Virginia University’s annual Monday Night Lights event on Aug. 14, students gathered for a make-up session on Monday. Members of the class of 2027 gathered on Mountaineer Field in Milan Puskar Stadium for a class photo, to watch the Pride of West ...
