If you want to know about diversity in Monongalia County Schools, you may want to look back to a sunny March afternoon more than 10 years ago. That’s when young Viraat Das became a breakout star of the county spelling bee. Viraat leveled whole lexicons of words that were ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: LTTEs regarding WVU Academic Transformation From now until Aug. 31, we will open letters to the editor to WVU alumni and current and former staff and faculty, including those who live out of state, for any who would like to comment on WVU’s Academic ...
by Sen. Mike Caputo In a recent radio interview about some of the socially divisive laws just passed by the Legislature’s Republican-led supermajority, West Virginia GOP Chairwoman Elgine McArdle was asked whether our state might now be viewed as less inclusive. She responded, ...
We’d like to welcome Mark Kellogg and his family to Morgantown. We hope they feel that country roads have indeed brought them home. Kellogg comes to us after coaching the Stephen F. Austin women’s basketball team for eight years. Under his guidance, the Lumberjacks averaged 24 ...
She’s not exactly starving for affirmation. To the contrary, Malala Yousafzai is a global icon. Since 2012 when, as a 15-year-old Pakistani girl, she survived being shot in the head by a Taliban thug, she has met with heads of state, addressed the United Nations and won the Nobel Peace ...
by Nicholas Goldberg The state Legislature’s heavy-handed efforts to mandate diversity in California’s corporate boardrooms have been dealt a second blow in just a few weeks. Last month, Judge Terry A. Green of Los Angeles Superior Court overturned the law mandating that every ...