WTAE-TV

West Virginia University to increase tuition about 5% and cut some programs

West Virginia University is increasing tuition by just under 5% a semester and cutting several majors from its divisional campuses in an ongoing effort to offset enrollment drops and a budget ...
Slate

Everyone at West Virginia University Knew Something Was Up. I Hate That We Were Right.

West Virginia University would like you to believe that its plan to make draconian budget cuts is strictly a financial decision. WVU, West Virginia’s flagship land-grant university, which is located ...
Shepherdstown Chronicle

Mother, daughter graduate together from WVU’s masters degree program

This past August, Shepherdstown resident Donna Joy and her daughter, Mahayana “Maya” Garcia, may have made history when they ...
CBS News

West Virginia University outlines proposed program and faculty cuts

West Virginia University on Friday recommended the elimination of 32, or 9%, of the majors offered on its Morgantown campus along with a wide-ranging reduction in faculty to address a $45 million ...
Forbes

Deep Cuts To Faculty And Academic Programs Recommended At West Virginia University

West Virginia University (WVU) has released its preliminary recommendations for academic program reductions as it seeks to close a budget deficit currently projected to be about $45 million. The ...
The Inter-Mountain

Exercise physiology student gives back to West Virginia

Alexis Cipoletti’s fears of attending college as a first-generation student from a rural West Virginia community evaporated ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Why Is West Virginia U. Making Sweeping Cuts?

A fter months of waiting, the announcements of program cuts at West Virginia University started to trickle out this week. On Thursday night, news broke that its department of world languages, ...
WTAE-TV

West Virginia University vice president stepping down after academic and faculty reductions

Rob Alsop, a key figure in West Virginia University's wide-ranging reductions to academic programs and faculty positions, is stepping down, university President E. Gordon Gee said Tuesday.Alsop, the ...
The New York Times

What Just Happened at West Virginia University Should Worry All of Us

Mr. Weatherby is an associate professor of German and the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. In proposing last week to eliminate 169 faculty positions and cut more than 30 ...
THE WEEK

Is West Virginia University's gutting of liberal arts a sign of more to come?

West Virginia University officials recently proposed sweeping cuts at its flagship Morgantown campus, startling faculty members and students alike. The "financially beleaguered" state-funded public ...
The Atlantic

What Happens When a Poor State Guts Its Public University

Three years ago, President E. Gordon Gee of West Virginia University had a terrific idea—a career capper. As he neared retirement, he would embrace the “academic transformation” of public higher ...