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Students from Wheeling Middle School got a taste of the college life Thursday morning as guests of Wheeling University. WMS students were able to experience aspects of the university’s nursing, engineering and athletic programs, took a tour of the Challenger Center and quizzed a panel of Wheeling University students about their experiences in higher education. […]

For The Times Leader WHEELING — Wheeling City Council members had mixed reactions to backlash from three local institutions of higher learning, which this week jointly and publicly opposed the city’s efforts to bring Bluefield State College to Wheeling. Some council members on Thursday indicated that, moving forward, they would reconsider their support of the effort to bring the southern West Virginia college to Wheeling, a project initiated earlier this year through a memorandum of unders...

Staff Writer Photo by Eric Ayres – The Education and Administration Building on the former Ohio Valley Medical Center campus is being targeted as a potential site for a future Engineering and Manufacturing Center to train and educate engineering students from Bluefield State College. WHEELING — Wheeling City Council members had mixed reactions to backlash from three local institutions of higher learning, which this week jointly and publicly opposed the city’s efforts to bring Bluefield...