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A photo of West Virginia University students, faculty members and others sitting and standing in a room at West Virginia University, with some holding signs protesting proposed academic program and faculty position cuts.

West Virginia Students, Faculty Cry Out on Final Day Before Vote on Deep Cuts

At a raucous public comment session Thursday, the WVU Board of Governors heard final pleas to reject university administrators’ proposed cuts. But state politicians and university leaders aren’t expected to heed the protests.

West Virginia University students protesting proposed faculty member layoffs and academic program cuts. One student holds a stick above the crowd, and another has a sign reading "Gee + BOG Need to GO."

WVU Faculty Overwhelmingly Votes No Confidence in Gee, Calls for Freeze in Cuts

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.

WVU Still Proposes Nixing Math Grad Degrees, but Floats Replacements

West Virginia University officials announced Thursday that they will still recommend that their Board of Governors eliminate the institution’s current...
A student wearing a red shirt and a red bandanna uses a megaphone to address a crowd of other protesters outside West Virginia University's Mountainlair student union.

A Flagship Research University… Without Language Degrees or Math Ph.D.s?

Some of West Virginia University’s proposed program cuts appear unprecedented, or close to it, for an institution of its kind. Department appeals and student protests seem to be having little effect so far.

WVU Proposes No Language Degrees, Just Chinese and Spanish Courses

West Virginia University announced Tuesday, after its Department of World Languages, Literatures and Linguistics appealed its proposed elimination, that administrators...
A photo illustration of a sticker saying "FREE 2024 Fall Special" on a textbook with a $99.99 price tag.

University Says It Won’t Charge for Textbooks. Professors Ask How.

West Texas A&M's Faculty Senate voted no confidence in its president last spring, partly for his talk of a “textbook-free” campus. Now he's doubling down.

WVU Faculty to Consider Vote of No Confidence in Gee

West Virginia University faculty members will vote next week on resolutions to express no confidence in President Gordon Gee and...
A photograph of Trinity College's campus.

‘Constitutional Crisis’ at Trinity?

A dispute at the Connecticut college over two deans’ behavior has administrators and professors at loggerheads regarding the limits of the faculty’s investigative authority.