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Award will advance opportunities, community for diverse students

WVU Today Students in underrepresented groups at West Virginia University will have expanded opportunities for success as they work toward academic success and graduation. A $17,500 grant from the Enterprise Holdings Foundation will support RISE WVU, an Office of Student Success program ...

Calif.’s controversial law back in crosshairs

by Nicholas Goldberg Three years ago, the California Legislature passed a bill requiring public companies to put women on their corporate boards. The bill set specific quotas, dates by which those quotas had to be met and penalties if they were not met. It was troubling from the ...

Teaching tolerance in Mon schools

Michael Ryan, by his nature, trends toward the optimistic and positive. Which is why he wasn’t necessarily offended when people would come by the apartment to meet him. This was in the Washington, D.C., area, where Ryan, a former guidance counselor who now coordinates student support ...

West Virginia Can’t Wait outlines plan

Promises to fight for discrimination protections If candidates endorsed by West Virginia Can’t Wait win the upcoming election, they’ll fight for stronger discrimination protections in the state. That was the takeaway from a gathering held Thursday outside  Amina’s Hair & ...

Change is happening, but more is needed

Equality at WVU is better, but there is still work to be done, says VP Mesha Poore MORGANTOWN -- Meshea Poore, West Virginia University’s vice president for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, said during her 2020 State of Diversity address Thursday that progress has been made, but more ...

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