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☆ West Virginia Budget Cuts Are a Taste of Higher Ed’s Future
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( James Piereson | Naomi Schaefer Riley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Michigan Tech has come out on top and Harvard at the bottom in the largest-ever survey looking into the state of free speech on America's college campuses. Most elite colleges, including Penn and Yale, trail larger state schools with more working-class students. Images: Shutterstock/FIRE Composite: Mark KellyGordon Gee thinks higher education is at a “crossroads.” If it takes the wrong turn, it will head over a demographic and financial cliff. To save West Virginia University, of which he is president, in February he announced significant cuts, including the elimination of 169 faculty positions and some 30 academic programs and departments that were either lacking enrollment or too expensive to maintain.

Persons: Mark Kelly Gordon Gee Organizations: Michigan Tech, Harvard, Penn, West Virginia University Locations: Yale

☆ Allies of Joe Manchin believe the West Virginia Democrat could retire from the Senate to lead his alma mater, West Virginia University
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia is keeping everyone on their toes regarding his plans for 2024. A New York Times report suggested Manchin could step down to lead West Virginia University. The influential West Virginia Democrat may run for reelection to the Senate, which would give the party their best chance of holding the seat. Or he could simply call it quits after a decadeslong political career in West Virginia, which in recent years has morphed from a Democratic redoubt to a Republican stronghold. Advertisement Advertisement Watch: Watch how Joe Biden has aged from 1974 to 2022However, allies of Manchin told The New York Times of another potential option for the senator: retiring to become the president of his alma mater, West Virginia University.

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Instead, the student population at West Virginia University has dropped 10% since 2015, while on-campus expansion continued. Lawmakers recently approved a higher education funding formula rewarding schools for degree attainment, workforce outcomes and graduate wages. Mary Manspeaker, an English Ph.D. student, said she left her home state at 18 because she didn't see opportunity in West Virginia. He said the conflict reflects the fundamental question in higher education right now: How do we assess value? "And it might be in cash, endowment and buildings, but it could arguably be in other things.”___Raby reported from Charleston, West Virginia.

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☆ What Just Happened at West Virginia University Is Alarming - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Leif Weatherby | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

E. Gordon Gee, the president of West Virginia University, once promised that the school would have 40,000 students by 2020, but the figure is still well under 30,000 across three campuses and is projected to drop. The humanities are under threat more broadly across the nation because of the perceived left-wing ideology of the liberal arts. To resist this assault, we must provide broad access to a true liberal arts education. The campaign to overturn the liberal arts is politically motivated, through and through. I was lucky: My parents put a liberal arts education above all other goals.

Persons: Gordon Gee, Gee, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, ” Organizations: West Virginia University, West Virginians, Democratic Party, Republican Party Locations: New York

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