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Media Credit: File Photos by Jack Borowiak and Jack Fonseca | Staff Photographers As the Board of Trustees conduct its regular review of University President Thomas LeBlanc, some faculty doubt that LeBlanc will be able to rebuild trust with the community. Faculty said University President Thomas LeBlanc may not be able to salvage relationships with the GW community on the heels of a year marked by ongoing tensions between the two and calls for LeBlanc to resign. Tensions between LeBlanc and faculty members have been escalating since last February but have heightened this past year as various ...

From staff reports WHEELING — The West Virginia Northern Community College Faculty Assembly added its voice backing WVNCC President Daniel Mosser in his stance against the memorandum of understanding between the City of Wheeling and Bluefield State College. The group released a letter addressed to the city both supporting Mosser and asking the city to reconsider the memorandum. The MOU is a non-binding agreement that allows BSC to explore moving into one of the buildings at the campus of the former Ohio Valley Medical Center. At a city council meeting, Mosser excoriated council members abou...

Allegations of Anti-Semitism at Linfield The university's ongoing sexual misconduct scandal involving trustees is a two-headed monster, now that one faculty trustee says he faced anti-Semitism for pushing for reform.   Daniel Pollack-Pelzner/Twitter Linfield University’s president and Board of Trustees chair are facing formal faculty votes of no confidence today after damning straw polls last week. The Pacific Northwest chapter of the Anti-Defamation League has expressed disappointment in the two men, and even the Oregon Board of Rabbis wants President Miles K. Davis and David Baca, the bo...

Columns By Kiran Hoeffner-Shah Apr 19, 2021 1:22 AM The GW community’s tolerance of University President Thomas LeBlanc’s leadership is dwindling. Students have expressed previous frustration with LeBlanc, ranging from criticism over insensitive remarks to concerns about an extravagant inauguration in his very first semester at GW. Faculty and students have found themselves angered over layoffs and have expressed frustration with LeBlanc’s administrative priorities, like his 20/30 plan that has now gone stagnant because of the COVID-19 pandemic or his decision to hire Heather Swain....

F.T. Norton Calling for the revocation of Darrell Allison’s appointment as chancellor of Fayetteville State University, the school's Faculty Senate voted Friday to declare that the search for a chancellor had failed, and demanded that interim Chancellor Peggy Valentine be installed to the position.  The Faculty Senate, made up of elected representatives from all branches of the school, met in open session Friday to consider a number of resolutions concerning the growing controversy surrounding Allison’s recent appointment to the position.  Among the issues causing concern for the Facult...