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HUNTINGTON — Universities in West Virginia have begun making COVID-19 vaccines available to their students. Marshall University health and safety officials have collaborated with the Cabell-Huntington Health Department to make free COVID-19 vaccinations available to Marshall students through clinics in Cabell County. Students have two clinic options, which started Wednesday: St. Mary’s Education Center (tents in parking lot on the east end of the center), 2853 5th Ave. in Huntington, or the COVID-19 Vaccine Center (former Sears location on the south end of the Huntington Mall) in Ba...

What WVU Learned from the Pandemic Mineral Daily News-Tribune WVU Today MORGANTOWN - Under the quiet surface of near-stilled campuses over the past year, West Virginia University researchers, faculty and administrators have scrambled to learn more about COVID-19 and mitigate its spread, calculated how to teach online and hybrid classes and figured out how to better ensure people on those campuses could remain safe from the virulent disease that has killed more than 500,000 U. S. citizens to date. In keeping with its land-grant mission, WVU shared its findings with the state of West Virginia a...

CHARLESTON — About half of West Virginia’s 43 public and private college campuses started vaccinating their employees against COVID-19 last week, according to a spokesperson for the state’s higher education oversight agencies. Spokesperson Jessica Tice wrote in an email that 1,000 doses were to be given across the colleges last week. “This was based on whether they were open, whether they had people who were eligible to be vaccinated who were available this week and whether they had at least 10 people who fit the criteria (doses come in vials of 10, and vials can’t be...

As students went home and classes moved online at the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, West Virginia University administrators faced a grim budgetary picture. “When we went online in March, we faced a potentially catastrophic set of circumstances,” said Rob Alsop, vice president for strategic initiatives, at a faculty senate meeting on Monday. He credited the work of administrators and faculty members for saving the University from a financial crisis. Through controlled spending, federal relief and hard work, they have been able to stave off layoffs or pay reductions and hav...

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