MORGANTOWN — At the Sept. 11 West Virginia University Faculty Senate meeting, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Ela Celikbas took up the microphone in defense of her field.
President E. Gordon Gee told faculty during his report that the current changes and reductions occurring as part of Academic Transformation would have happened without the structural budget deficit, during
Incalculable. That was the assessment West Virginia University Provost Maryanne Reed offered Monday regarding the cumulative affects WVU’s wide-ranging cuts faculty and staff cuts as part of its university-wide restructuring
Australian researchers have achieved a groundbreaking milestone by creating a molecular-sized electronic sensor that surpasses the efficiency of its widely used counterparts.
Students, faculty and campus community members filled the Erickson Alumni Center Thursday to state their concerns regarding Academic Transformation efforts to the Board of Governors.
A month of intense public and on-campus pressure did not dissuade the Board of Governors from siding with the administration to slash programs and positions. MORGANTOWN, W.Va.—Despite pleas from students, faculty members and academic organizations to change course, and despite student protesters disrupting its Friday meeting, the West Virginia University Board of Governors voted today to eliminate 143 faculty positions and 28 academic programs from its flagship Morgantown campus.
Tears painted the faces of students, faculty and staff as the Board of Governors approved the Provost’s Office’s final recommendations, axing 28 majors and 143 faculty during a meeting Friday.
President E. Gordon Gee addressed faculty about ‘misrepresentations’ regarding the Academic Transformation process during a Faculty Senate meeting Monday, claiming that false narratives are being spread about the University.
West Virginia faculty members approved two resolutions Wednesday, condemning the university’s president along with the layoffs and cuts to academic programs that he has backed. A rarely convened West Virginia University faculty body voted 797 to 100 Wednesday to pass a no-confidence resolution in President E. Gordon Gee, whose administration has raised ire for its proposed gutting of foreign language instruction along with other sizable academic program cuts and layoffs across the Morgantown campus.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — West Virginia University is continuing its Academic Transformation process, with officials announcing some of the final recommendations for program and faculty cuts.