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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

This student just arrived at WVU days ago. There are words for recruiting a teenager, depositing her tuition check, getting her to move into/pay for one of your dorms, and then immediately canceling the course of study she came for, but maybe not words fit for a family newspaper.

Kenwardjr

@Kenwardjr

1 year

“I studied French for seven years, I did really good on the AP exam, passed my bilingual literacy test and I was really hoping I could go further at WVU. “Not anymore.” Via @DailyAthenaeum

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Scott Crichlow

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First WVU announces plans to fire its World Languages faculty. Now it says it may replace them with an app or an on-line partnership. The outright contempt Gordon Gee and Maryanne Reed are displaying toward both university employees and basic educational norms is astonishing.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

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Gordon Gee’s daughter got a triple Ivy education - Columbia, Cornell, and Penn. But Gee believes that Duolingo, not credentialed professionals, will provide adequate skills training for the children of West Virginia. That’s absolutely disgraceful. #FireGee

Dr. Lisa Corrigan

@DrLisaCorrigan

1 year

A few things about the horror show at WVU: 1.) The point is to create a two-tier educational system where the poors get garbage and the elites get the real deal education.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

As the final WVU cuts are described it’s maddening to keep hearing about how Department Z failed to increase enrollment. That’s not the job of faculty. At WVU that falls under University Relations. It’s infuriating that 147 faculty will be fired but UR VP Sharon Martin will stay.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

I’m curious if any students are going to sue WVU. A lot of them feel swindled by a bait and switch.

Mountain State Spotlight

@mtnstspotlight

1 year

NEW: Amid budget cuts, some WVU students feel ‘strapped to this institution’ with few other options

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

WVU faculty received this notice earlier today. E. Gordon Gee’s financial mismanagement has driven WVU straight off a cliff - students are going to be denied opportunities and faculty will be put out of work, some likely losing their entire careers. Will Gee bear any cost at all?

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

4 years

Personally, I find that the pro-Trump insurrectionists are being allowed to just wander off into the night much more unsettling than the fact that they attacked the Capitol today. Contributes to a culture of zero accountability. And the threat remains.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

WVU students: In ~24 hours this post received 550,000 views. MANY people are disgusted by how you’re being treated, and by the fact that Gordon Gee wants to rip away the futures that you and future Mountaineers deserve. Let’s hear from you, not Gee, on Monday. We’re with you.

Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

This student just arrived at WVU days ago. There are words for recruiting a teenager, depositing her tuition check, getting her to move into/pay for one of your dorms, and then immediately canceling the course of study she came for, but maybe not words fit for a family newspaper.

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Scott Crichlow

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4 years

For the last 2 days the county that contains WVU has had a positive test rate of over 23%. For 2 of the last 3 days WVU has conveniently not released any test results (Fall term $ was due today). Jim Justice & WVU’s leaders claim to care about public health and safety but ...

dan totzkay

@dannytotz

4 years

ope bars opened in Morgantown yesterday what could go wrong lol

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Omg. Fred King is saying this out loud - WVU has to fire (lots of) faculty because parts of the R1 formula are tied to per capita production metrics. So if we have a much smaller faculty what’s left of WVU can limp over the R1 barrier. Wow.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

5 years

To all those higher ed presidents & provosts (especially those at public universities) who want more public engagement in faculty work, including engagement on public policy topics - what specific protections will you offer to pre-tenure faculty publicly targeted by US senators?

Ted Cruz

@tedcruz

5 years

A Dartmouth prof doubts that Iran seeks nuclear weapons & they would use them on US cities. I’m curious, what does he think Ayatollah Khamenei means when he refers to USA as “The Great Satan” & chants “Death to America”? Here’s an idea: Don’t give him billions of $$ to find out.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Everyone should be clear about something when they hear 88+% of WVU faculty voted “No Confidence” in Gordon Gee. The Senate makeup gives you a sense of proportions: These are mostly people in STEM and professional schools who view Gee as untrustworthy. 1/2

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

And her only managerial experience was running a “College” smaller than many Departments. Her appointment was and remains a scandal. That she is overseeing the termination of 143 faculty members, *many* of whom are *vastly* more accomplished is OUTRAGEOUS. #FireGee #FireReed

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

This is very frustrating. If reporters are going to frame the WVU cuts as necessary “hard choices” to deal with a budget deficit, they should highlight that many of Gordon Gee’s cuts are aimed at programs that *make money*. Gee’s got an agenda. Finances are his convenient excuse.

Jeff Jenkins

@JeffJenkinsMN

1 year

State is unlikely to rescue West Virginia University from financial pain - WV MetroNews

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

3 years

The 6 states/territories with the worst case growth rate over the last 14 days: WV +252% Guam +195% SD +115% ND +105% Ohio +77% Nebraska +77% Jim Justice’s no-mandates policies have failed to keep WVians safe. And by digging in his heels he’s going to harm more people.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Meanwhile, not canceled is mining engineering, which loses $1.3 million a year. The WVU President’s Office has long been brazenly political, but it’s a damn shame 21st century economy programs are being closed in order to fund programs favored by political fat cats.

Charleston Gazette-Mail

@wvgazettemail

1 year

Proposed WVU faculty and major cuts would hit the school's environmental, energy and recreation programs especially hard:

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

2 years

Quite the split result in WV politics - after a highly effective gerrymander Republicans won 16 of 17 State Senate seats and 88 of 100 House of Delegates seats (Democrats controlled both houses as recently as 2014), but all the constitutional amendments they put forward lost.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Or WVU could hold an open, professional search and hire a qualified university president - wild idea I know, but a guy can dream.

Allies of Joe Manchin believe the West Virginia Democrat could retire from the Senate to lead his...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has encouraged Manchin to run for reelection in the heavily conservative state, according to The New York Times.

www.businessinsider.com

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

This is the thing to read about the diminishment of WVU and the comfortable unaccountability of Gordon Gee.

Slate

@Slate

1 year

It feels like the people who make the mistakes are never the ones who are punished.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Gordon Gee & Maryanne Reed eliminating educ. Masters programs that are one of the few paths for WV teachers to make their salaries even remotely competitive is one side of the WVU cuts that’s not getting enough attention. Gee & Reed want to exacerbate the lack-of-teachers crisis.

Jason Armentrout

@JasonArmentrout

1 year

I know all the stuff with WVU and higher education is dominating the local and state headlines, as they should, but the supply of qualified teachers in West Virginia is still in crisis mode. The shortage is real.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

“WVU is going to be an international laughingstock” - this is why students and alums should be outraged by what Gordon Gee is doing at WVU, whether or not one of their programs is affected by the cuts. WVU is going to be a joke, and the value of our degrees will drop accordingly.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

@PittsburghPG

1 year

‘Inconceivable’: WVU’s plan to shut down language department could have detrimental impact on faculty and students, professors say

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

A new “term and condition” for employment as a WVU faculty member is complying with “WVU values” like these. Do faculty at peer institutions face a similar requirement? This looks to me like a gag order, meant to silence criticism of Gordon Gee & Co.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

In case you’re wondering how that “be nice to scabs!” guy ended up at WVU, Gordon Gee is cutting public health, math, art history, languages, plant sciences, etc. - but he’s spending big $ to import that kind of thinking into Appalachia. Henry Clay Frick would be pleased.

Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

@BobbyBigWheel It’s worse that that. That guy’s brand new! Gordon Gee is dropping $20 million to create a new Center (the rest is coming from the Diamondbacks owner) at the same time he’s firing 143 faculty members (whose combined compensation is far under $20 million).

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

4 years

Yesterday WVU Pres. Gordon Gee told the Faculty Senate he supports moving toward abolishing the state income tax. Likely results of such a move 👇🏼 include slashing support for education, ending PROMISE, and moving more of the tax burden to people struggling to pay for college.

Sean O’Leary

@OLearySW

4 years

I can forgive him for not wanting to talk about what budget cuts would be necessary, because it the words of Delegate Espinosa, it's not "politically popular"

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Those interested in the calamity at WVU, review the appendix here Gordon Gee has put WVU into ever-increasing debt, even as enrollment has steadily declined during his tenure. Administrators made bad decisions. Now students will be denied opportunities.

Dan Sinykin

@dan_sinykin

1 year

Are there journalists out there who have started investigating WVU's mismanagement yet? The administration lost millions and now plans on shuttering World Languages and firing all its faculty, and dramatically downsizing many other departments, laying off tons of faculty.

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Scott Crichlow

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1 year

WVU’s General Counsel’s way of dealing with the faculty shortly before she has a role in RIFing 147 of them. Given the model set by Gee’s own astonishingly-disrespectful way of treating faculty, maybe this is the way to higher performance reviews in Stewart Hall?

Colton Nichols (He/Him/His)

@ColtonNichols01

1 year

Are you kidding me?!? This is an abhorrent way for administration to treat faculty and is absolutely shameful. Disgusting.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Reed can say what she likes, but the WVU faculty are done with Gee. Almost 90% of the faculty voted “no confidence” in him, and that was before his immature, insulting, even vengeful, comments at Faculty Senate last week. WVU won’t heal until Gee is gone. It’s up to him.

Brad McElhinny

@BradMcElhinny

1 year

#WVU will start implementing academic changes while also acknowledging long road to repair morale

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

These are among the students Gordon Gee and Maryanne Reed don’t want at WVU: national security leaders of tomorrow, individuals who seek to excel at serving their country. It’s shameful. Gee and Reed need to be replaced by people committed to opening doors, not closing them.

Garrett Burgess

@garrettrburgess

1 year

@SCrichlow RIP to all the military students who require foreign language to maintain their federal scholarships… Further RIP to any student wishing to go for a graduate degree. Don’t think Duolingo will count.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Among the signs at today’s student protests against Gordon Gee’s proposed diminishment of WVU: A bowtie is not a vision. My mom is pissed. The PRT works better than our administration. Rif the rich. Stop the cuts. Audit THEM. #WalkoutWVU

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

To get a sense of how valuable language education is to WVU students across the whole university, review the list of majors pursued by this year’s Gilman Scholars. Saying that only language majors will be harmed by eliminating languages is simply a lie.

Record number of WVU students receive Gilman Scholarships to study abroad

Twenty undergraduate students at West Virginia University are recipients of the competitive national award funded by the U.S. State Department to allow for travel abroad without financial constraints.

wvutoday.wvu.edu

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Gordon Gee’s plan to deal with a massive budget deficit (that he played a key role in creating) is to offer the people of WV an impoverished state flagship, one unable to offer a variety of core academic programs. Meanwhile, Gee, a multimillionaire, is cashing in big time.

Austin 🇺🇸🇺🇦

@AustinDizzy

1 year

How much does Gordon Gee benefit as WVU President? Well, it's a lot more than that $800k per year number everyone's been telling you about ... Here's a copy of his agreement when it was first extended in 2019... 📎🧾

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Scott Crichlow

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1 year

Gordon Gee at today’s Faculty Senate meeting: “We have bought 24 hospitals.” 24?! We have? I’d be interested in hearing the financials behind that and how it may relate to the current WVU financial crisis.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

The mood on WVU’s downtown campus today, as hundreds of students crowded into the Free Speech Zone to be heard.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Gee has cashed into a career that’s made him vastly wealthy by constantly denigrating Higher Ed, and he’s captured Boards of amateurs who don’t ask questions to ensure his power & wealth. But all who see him up close, in Medicine & Physics as much as humanities see who he is. 2/2

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1 year

The WVU BoG Chair is reallllllly put out by the students, but she refuses (!) to accept a narrative that students were asked to leave. WVU SGA President Madison Santmyer appears to say that is not true. Things are going swimmingly in Morgantown today. Gee has lost this campus.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

The head of WVU’s Board of Governors, who’s about to zero out the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics because supposedly students don’t want to study French, German, Arabic, Russian, etc., came to WVU to study French. 🤷‍♂️

Dr. Mehmet Öztan mehmetoztan.bsky.social

@mehmetoztan

1 year

🤔 "Before college, Willis Miller dreamed of working for the United Nations. When she enrolled at West Virginia University (WVU) as an undergraduate, she pursued a degree in French with plans to put it to good use with foreign service."

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Scott Crichlow

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1 year

When is WVU - when are WV young people and families - going to have the conversation about Maryanne Reed being wholly unqualified to be Provost at a state flagship? Lacking minimal credentials she was installed outside a professional hiring process. Now, sadly, predictably, this.

Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

First WVU announces plans to fire its World Languages faculty. Now it says it may replace them with an app or an on-line partnership. The outright contempt Gordon Gee and Maryanne Reed are displaying toward both university employees and basic educational norms is astonishing.

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Scott Crichlow

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11 months

WVU’s Maryanne Reed considers it “good news” that scores of faculty have volunteered to retire early, so only 69 faculty members will be RIFed. Careers are ending early. People are losing nest eggs. Students are losing loads of expertise & opportunities. That’s “good news”?

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

11 months

“In Gee’s mind, neither borrowing and spending for facilities nor high pay for administrators have contributed to WVU’s financial problem, so it wouldn’t help to cut any of those things. No wonder the only solution is to reduce programs and faculty.”

Gazette-Mail editorial: Gee out of touch with reality at WVU

There are a lot of statistics, trends and facts around the higher education landscape that indicate the turmoil at West Virginia University could have been avoided — and might well

www.wvgazettemail.com

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

A day later I’m still marveling over the choice by someone in University Relations to define “WVU” as about a dozen inexpert political appointees. Somebody in UR looked at yesterday’s historic events and decided - you know what this campus needs? More disrespect and antagonism!

WVUToday

@wvutoday

1 year

WVU issues statement after University Faculty Assembly votes

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

11 months

WVU isn’t paying faculty start-up $ that’s in their contracts. There’s barely a dime for research support. Office phones and printers are gone. And of course hundreds are being fired. But Jet Set Gordon Gee is out here doing his best Eric Cartman “I do what I want!” impression.

Brian Powell

@bitmapped

11 months

WVU expenses paid to aircraft charter provider have risen since Gee called for decreasing costs via @wvgazettemail

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

11 months

“You’re wrong,” Gee claimed after this reporter cited independent auditors’ reports on WVU finances and the university’s past enrollment figures and projections. Gee can’t handle the truth, or his own responsibility for WVU’s current crisis, when it’s smack dab in front of him.

Mike Tony

@Mike__Tony

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Past audits of WVU finances show student residence, athletics and other construction and renovation projects swelled the school's long-term liabilities as enrollment declined. Gee denied and dismissed data from those audits in a Gazette-Mail interview:

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

11 months

WVU is RIFing ~300 employees this year - several today! - and THIS gets sent to all faculty and staff?! It’s like UR/Sharon Martin are bound and determined to crush morale on campus at every opportunity. No wonder 89% of faculty voted No Confidence in Gee (& his team).

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

This point about the proposed changes at WVU - changing what WVU is; fundamentally changing what it will offer the people of WV - is crucial. The list of proposed faculty firings illustrates what is and isn’t under attack. Let’s review them. 1/

Joshua Weishart

@joshuaweishart

1 year

When in reality this "Academic Transformation" is exactly that, decisions to cut programs & fire faculty is implementing a different vision and purpose for the university (more privatized, deprofessionalized). That tends to get lost in translation in the coverage. 2/2

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

WVU students, staff, faculty, and alumni after reading this WSJ article on the WVU leadership’s reckless spending spree.

Kris Maher

@Kris_Maher

1 year

West Virginia University faces a deficit and budget cuts after years of excessive spending. With @melissakorn who dug into the university's spending habits as enrollment declined. via @WSJ

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

6 months

The 9 Republican senators who voted to keep sexual abuse of spouses legal: Mike Azinger, R-Wood Amy Grady, R-Mason Mark Hunt, R-Kanawha Glenn Jeffries, R-Putnam Robert Karnes, R-Randolph Patrick Martin, R-Lewis Mark Maynard, R-Wayne Rollan Roberts, R-Raleigh Eric Tarr, R-Putnam

West Virginia Watch

@WV_Watch

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For the first time in state history, spouses could soon be charged with sexual abuse against their partners if a bill passed by the state Senate on Monday is accepted and passed by the House, reports @caitycoyne .

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Bleak Faculty Senate meeting today. Gee and Reed were asked directly if they’d thought through/considered the downstream effects that eliminating world language instruction would have on the state, both now and longer term. Neither offered an answer that looked beyond WVU. Sigh.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

It’s not as important as the awful news that WVU intends to end training in world languages, but it’s notable that @WVUEberly ‘s Assoc. Dean for Academic Affairs was a French professor, and if an administrator keeps her job while teachers/researchers are fired, that’s messed up.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

5 years

This is probably the key thing to watch relating to Harris dropping out. She was second behind Biden in endorsements, generally, and apart from Feinstein had locked up most of the big ones in the country's biggest & richest state. Where do those influential people go now?

(((Harry Enten)))

@ForecasterEnten

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Harris had a slew of endorsements from CA... Also, she was the only candidate besides Biden to pick up a number of CBC endorsements. Be interesting to see where those go.

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WVU Facts is back! Like the first post it’s a must read. Just hours after students took to the streets to save their majors and “RIF the Rich”, this post is illuminating the extraordinary administrative bloat that’s occurred under Gordon Gee’s leadership.

WVU Facts

The truth about WVU's financial crisis

wvufacts.wordpress.com

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

You ever notice that Gordon Gee always refers to the same 2-3 universities when saying that WVU’s steady enrollment declines throughout his tenure in office are part of a national trend? Well, there’s a reason for that … (Who is the one spreading “misinformation”? 🤔)

Charleston Gazette-Mail

@wvgazettemail

1 year

Data show WVU's declining enrollment makes it an outlier among peer schools:

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Gordon Gee’s strong defense of his salary, to a gathering of faculty, while WVU is discussing its first ever Reductions in Force is one of the most out-of-touch and tone-deaf things I’ve witnessed in years.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

“The Provost’s Office will also move forward with the abolishing of language requirements for students pursuing bachelor of arts majors in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.” Could’ve sworn setting the curriculum was the faculty’s role. We shall see how this plays out.

The Daily Athenaeum

@DailyAthenaeum

1 year

BREAKING: WVU solidifies its recommendation to axe the Department of World Languages among other programs. The University is also moving forward with abolishing the language requirement for students in the Eberly College.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Gordon Gee is here. WVU’s Faculty Senate “leaders” aren’t merely an utter embarrassment, they impede faculty-led shared governance at every turn. Pathetic.

Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

5 minutes until the WVU University Assembly. We were told we had to have an in-person meeting because we were following the Mike Garrison assembly model. If that’s true this will be an actual faculty space, with no administrators. Will that actually hold true? We’ll know soon.

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Scott Crichlow

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WVU faculty: PLEASE attend the Assembly tomorrow. The Faculty Senate leaders who just voted to extend Gee’s contract and speed along the firing of faculty members are carefully curating who’s allowed to attend virtually. PLEASE come out to allow your faculty colleagues to vote.

Lisa Di Bartolomeo ☮️🇺🇦🌈

@LMDiBartolomeo

1 year

Tomorrow is a big day for #WVU . The Faculty Assembly will vote on two resolutions that will affect the future of OUR university. If you care about this place, please: show up. Vote. #academicdecimation #wvumistake #stopthecuts

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

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If you read this, you’ll see it’s not new - Gee has been doing this for years. Chairs and Directors could see it coming and made/saved money - money they then weren’t allowed to spend because it was crucial to maintaining WVU’s credit rating, given central over-spending. 1/

Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Those interested in the calamity at WVU, review the appendix here Gordon Gee has put WVU into ever-increasing debt, even as enrollment has steadily declined during his tenure. Administrators made bad decisions. Now students will be denied opportunities.

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@SCrichlow

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WVU faculty who follow me, I hope you’ll either cancel your classes on Thursday and Friday morning or excuse students who want to attend the BoG meetings. They want to be given a chance to speak up for their education (and that of future Mountaineers). We should grant them that.

Christian Rowe

@rowezayy

1 year

WVU Community and supporters: We need you now more than ever If you are in Morgantown or are able to get to Morgantown … We need you, in red, at the BOG Public Comment Thursday, and at the Final Vote Friday This is our unions biggest ask so far. Come together and save WVU

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@SCrichlow

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I’ve admired @RyanEQuinn ‘s work for years. He’s the perfect combination of inquisitive, forceful, and fair-minded - any outlet seriously interested in journalism would be lucky to employ him. And on one of the hardest days WVU’s ever had, he’s fully captured it. But also … 1/

Ryan Quinn

@RyanEQuinn

1 year

“President Gee, you were correct when you said that higher education is under attack,” he said. “But I think you forgot to mention that you were the one who is attacking it.” Today's story on WVU students and faculty members fighting 'til the end:

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

The no confidence vote at WVU next is about a few different things, but incompetence and mismanagement by the Gee administration is front and center. Across multiple units they have relied on incorrect data when making their “Transformation” decisions. Yes, data this basic.

Rose Casey

@ARoseCasey

1 year

Update: only 7 people will be let go, from an original 9 (again, the Provost Office had miscounted our number of faculty). With 4 people volunteering to take phased retirement--to save other jobs--that means 3 people will still be RIFfed.

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1 year

West Virginia’s newspaper: “It’s Gee’s arrogance and frivolity (not to mention his bizarre readiness to throw in the towel rather than even ask the state for more funding), along with the board’s refusal to listen to faculty and students, that put WVU here.”

Brian Powell

@bitmapped

1 year

Gazette-Mail editorial: Gee, WVU board ignore discontent at own peril via @wvgazettemail

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1 year

Gordon Gee accuses a group of the faculty as being dishonest and untruthful. And the Faculty Senate Chair is just standing their silently.

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@SCrichlow

6 months

I’m sure I’m not the only WVU employee - or hey, citizen of the state - who’d like to hear what Clay Marsh (WVU’s VP for Health Sciences) has been doing to protect WV from this dangerous Republican political maneuvering.

Amelia Knisely

@ameliaknisely

6 months

Just now: House just passed the amendment that would permit religious exemptions for vaccinations. 58-37 vote. Bill vote pending.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

8 months

Gordon Gee - who, treating WVU like his personal plaything rather than an important public trust, recently eliminated WVU’s World Languages Dept. - is going to headline an event for a *South Korean* firm investing in WV? Gee is a charlatan.

Video and updates: State officials welcome international electronics company LG - WV MetroNews

The event includes LG's chief executive officer William Cho.

wvmetronews.com

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@SCrichlow

7 months

It’s often forgotten that WVU’s Gee, Reed, and BoG actually *paid* for the advice from out-of-state consultants that led to the decimation of the university and adopting ridiculous positions like learning world languages isn’t valuable in the 21st century. Epic mismanagement.

Zachary Levenson

@grundrza

7 months

Before I came to FIU, I taught at @UNCG for a half decade. They’ve just axed three entire departments — anthro, physics, and religious studies. And surprise! They’re paying the same disgusting consulting firm (rpk group) that was behind the cuts at WVU.

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“Clearly, a lot of people, particularly young people, are voting with their feet and leaving the state.” WV’s population decline is by far the biggest in the US. One of the oddities of the US political system is that there is no penalty for state failure.

Statehouse Beat: Population dive in WV worse than we thought (Opinion)

The U.S. Census Bureau continues to release data from the 2020 census, recently including population trends from 2010 to 2020, and it’s not good for West Virginia.

www.wvgazettemail.com

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@SCrichlow

3 years

Imagine being the president of a flagship, R1 university (E. Gordon Gee) and choosing to be part of “unaccredited Racism U”. Then imagine being staff, faculty, and students at the university led by that president. 😔

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@SCrichlow

11 months

Gee has spent years misleading the WVU community, WV elites, and prospective students, donors, and faculty alike with this line - a line he uses to excuse his own failures. A look at peer institutions exposes the lie. But it’s worse than that. 1/2

Jessie Wilkerson

@Dr_JessieW

11 months

Gee: “Our transformation process is because the world is changing not because of a budget deficit.”

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@SCrichlow

1 year

This is pretty obviously a lie, and I’m begging the WV media universe not to treat Gee/WVU UR propaganda as fact. Doing that has led to the current mess at WVU. This merger, while it may make theoretical sense, is primarily about *cutting* resources that go to these missions.

WVU Mountaineers

@WestVirginiaU

1 year

“It will strengthen WVU’s commitment to continually improve the lives and livelihoods of individuals, families & communities within WV and beyond as we transform to be a model for the modern land-grant university in an evolving higher education landscape.”

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11 months

“Gee has said that the label of “crisis” in regards to the University’s financial and academic state is inaccurate and unfair. But how is the decimation of palpably loved faculty and programs in light of a $45 million deficit not a crisis?” Very strong piece from the DA staff.

The Daily Athenaeum

@DailyAthenaeum

11 months

The University voted on Friday to slash 28 majors, 10 of which are undergraduate, as well as 143 faculty positions. This decision is both disappointing and could have a rippling effect on the state.

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3 years

Some states are over 60 while West Virginia is at a woeful 36. And yet 1) the WV governor is going to end the mask mandate & 2) WVU isn’t planning to require vaccines but will return classrooms to full capacity. That’s reckless leadership.

Benjy Renton

@bhrenton

3 years

Just in: Vermont and Massachusetts have become the first two states to surpass 60% of the population with at least one vaccine dose. Vermont leads the nation with 61.3%. Walk-in clinics are available in Vermont — a perfect Mother's Day gift. Go to .

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I feel badly for some of these students, the top-ranked new WVU students from WV. They could have gone anywhere, but WVU wooed them, they moved here, and now most of them see, before the first day of class, programs they came for eliminated or cut. 😔

WVU names 2023 Foundation Scholars

Five incoming freshmen eager to find solutions that will change their communities and the world for the better have been named 2023-24 West Virginia University Foundation Scholars, the highest...

www.wvuf.org

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@SCrichlow

11 months

“When comparing West Virginia’s firearm death rate between the 17 years prior to the law and five years after, the study found gun homicides in the state increased by nearly 48%.”

Mountain State Spotlight

@mtnstspotlight

11 months

West Virginia gun deaths increased significantly after passing a permitless concealed carry law in 2016.

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@SCrichlow

1 year

Gordon Gee talked about “faculty misinformation” while claiming WVU is changing to focus on National Security (while we eliminate critical language instruction) and Data Sciences (we’re cutting that school). Sigh. The faculty isn’t misinforming anyone. Mostly, we’re exhausted.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

9 months

Anyone who has worked at WVU for any lengthy of time knows you simply can’t trust Gordon Gee. But it’s one thing to know it - it’s another thing to see it in the pages of The Atlantic.

Chris Regan

@EverydayRegan

9 months

@joshuaweishart @WaltAuvil This is the magazine's way of saying he was only a tick or two above Santos-level truthfulness.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

11 months

92% of WVU’s outstanding debt dates to Gordon Gee’s presidency. #NoConfidence The article (link above in the 🧵below) also notes that WVU itself has stated that given its debt any capital spending in the next decade “will be very targeted”.

Brian Powell

@bitmapped

11 months

Probably has to do with the hundreds of millions in debt WVU has loaded up on during Gee’s tenure. University now owes over a billion dollars according to recent audit.

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@SCrichlow

1 year

This is one heck of a shady post right here. Beyond the “you should be happy with less!” sentiment, right now students aren’t being allowed to change their @WVUEberly majors, presumably because administrators don’t want them supporting programs administrators want to close.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

That’s WVU Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Culture Melissa Latimer standing there, doing nothing, while a student in one of my classes is pushed out the door at today’s meeting. The Provost wants to rebuild trust? What have senior administrators done to earn that?

Dr. Mehmet Öztan mehmetoztan.bsky.social

@mehmetoztan

1 year

Police was called to remove the students out of the BOG meeting room, and now they are protesting in the hallway

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Important context: as @danbauman77 ‘s August 11 article in The Chronicle showed, WVU’s spending on employee compensation actually fell from 2011-2020. That should give everyone a sense of just how reckless the Gee administration’s spending has been. A fortune was spent on frills.

Sam Brown Petsonk

@Sam4WV

1 year

After adjusting for inflation, WVU spending rose 38% from 2002-2022, compared with a 7% increase in enrollment. 😳 On a per-student basis, spending increased by 29% over the past two decades.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

GW faculty call out Gordon Gee for flat-out lying about their policies, and deceptively mobilizing “the reputation of a major research institution to justify dangerous policies that will harm the students of West Virginia.”

Irene Mulvey

@imulvey

1 year

🙏 @GWtweets colleagues for this terrific letter! @WestVirginiaU should pay very close attention. 1/ Open Letter from George Washington University Language Faculty Regarding Elimination of Language Department at WVU

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

9 months

For the first 3 quarters of this year - the year Gee fired well over 200 faculty, instructors, & staff - WVU has paid more to this private aviation company than in any 1 year since 2015. Tell me more about the Gee-Reed commitment to cost savings. 🙄

Charleston Gazette-Mail

@wvgazettemail

9 months

WVU leaders say more cuts possible, budget governance plan needs work

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@SCrichlow

1 year

It’s like she’s walking directly into the meme. 🤦‍♂️

Brian Powell

@bitmapped

1 year

Maryanne Reed calls students emotional and uninformed.

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@SCrichlow

1 year

This kind of framing (not you @duncan_slade ) is why no one can trust the Provost’s Office or UR right now. An example - they don’t count International Studies majors as affected even though language classes they’ll need are eliminated. WVU’s press releases are simply mendacious.

Duncan Slade

@duncan_slade

1 year

wvu estimates program cuts proposed today will directly impact degrees with >2% of current students enrolled in them. they also want to cut 7% of faculty positions.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

Does WVU’s College of Media offer a course on ethics in media? Because it’d appear VP Sharon Martin and her senior team at University Relations could use a refresher. Another example of why no one should trust the spin coming out of official sources about the decimation of WVU.

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@SCrichlow

1 year

The WVU media blasts lately couldn’t be clearer: administrators + the rich lawyers who hangout with them in suites at football games are WVU (🙄), but they won’t bear any cost at all in the WVU cuts. “Rightsizing” means firing staff & faculty and denying students opportunities.

Margaret E Atwood

@MargaretAtwood

1 year

Note that not a single “administrator” has taken a pay cut. #Universities have to teach. It’s what they are for. They are not “for” administering without any #teachers . Many have become topheavy with administrators, who just keep administering themselves more money and cutting

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3 years

Feels to me like there’s a national story to be written about how Joe Manchin’s lack of commitment to inclusive, representative democracy is related to the fact that the WV Dem. Party’s Affirmative Action Committee, although mandated in 1974, only came into existence last night.

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@SCrichlow

1 year

A single administrator who has lived a couple states over from WVU for years, and whose responsibilities have nothing to do with the current “Transformation” of the university. This is a serious cut in administrative bloat. Sure. 🙄

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

2 months

Not the type of show I typically watch but #DeadBoyDetectives was highly enjoyable and I hope it’s renewed for a second season. George Rexstrew was excellent, and Lukas Gage was a delight as the Cat King.

Dead Boy Detective Agency

@dbdagency

2 months

Dead Boy Detectives is trending on Netflix’s New and Hot tab under the ‘Everyone’s Watching’ section at #1 ! 🎉 #DeadBoyDetectives #RenewDeadBoyDetectives

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@SCrichlow

4 months

It’s primary day in West Virginia. Only 10 years ago Democrats were a majority in the State Senate. Now, the Democratic Party isn’t even running a candidate in 8 of the 17 State Senate races.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

There are quite a few young political scientists in SGA. Surely they know that being apolitical is itself a highly political choice. And choosing silence and disengagement when direct harm is being inflicted on those they are charged with representing, well, that’s political too.

West Virginia United SU

@wvunitedsu

1 year

WVU's student government has no words for us today about the walkout. Rumor has it that some among them think the issue is "too political." Do they know what the "G" in "SGA" stands for?

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

@BobbyBigWheel It’s worse that that. That guy’s brand new! Gordon Gee is dropping $20 million to create a new Center (the rest is coming from the Diamondbacks owner) at the same time he’s firing 143 faculty members (whose combined compensation is far under $20 million).

WVU announces $40M partnership to expand economics education through innovative Chambers College...

A leadership gift to West Virginia University from longtime supporters Ken and Randy Kendrick will allow the John Chambers College of Business and Economics to transform economics education through...

wvutoday.wvu.edu

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@SCrichlow

1 year

Gordon Gee: “We are not in crisis. We actually are doing quite well.” Ending academic opportunities for students, increasing class sizes, institutionalizing treating students like numbers in a spreadsheet, no $ being available for faculty research etc. = “doing quite well”?

Jeff Jenkins

@JeffJenkinsMN

1 year

More WVU BOG moves..story from @dbeardtdp

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@SCrichlow

7 years

Joe Manchin-approved AG/liar Sessions ends review panel that could help protect innocent from wrongful imprisonment:

Sessions orders Justice Dept. to end forensic science commission, suspend review policy

Department to reduce role of independent scientists, suspends review of questioned testimony

www.washingtonpost.com

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@SCrichlow

11 months

This seems to be happening across multiple academic units at WVU, while rich administrators like Gordon Gee & Maryanne Reed refuse to take even a small, symbolic pay cut. It’s no wonder WVU students keep creating Gee + Reed = Greed signs at campus protests. Just zero leadership.

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@SCrichlow

1 year

For 8 years Gordon Gee has fought tooth and nail against creating a strategic plan because he doesn’t want to be evaluated against set markers of job performance - you know, like every staff and faculty member at WVU is. And no wonder:

Derek Krissoff

@DerekKrissoff

1 year

Instead of frantically imposing austerity, what if West Virginia’s flagship tried to attract more students, like the flagship universities in all of its neighboring states have recently managed to do?

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

5 minutes until the WVU University Assembly. We were told we had to have an in-person meeting because we were following the Mike Garrison assembly model. If that’s true this will be an actual faculty space, with no administrators. Will that actually hold true? We’ll know soon.

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@SCrichlow

1 year

I’m curious if @AAUP considers it professionally acceptable for a Provost (appointed with no faculty input by a president who was hired with no faculty input) to unilaterally declare such a mission change (which will have vast effects on the curriculum) without faculty approval?

Carisa Collins

@CarisaCollins

1 year

Per WVU Provost’s Office recommendation to close the World Languages, Linguistics & Literature dept: Foreign languages were deemed “not aligned” to WVU’s mission, student interests. This was a “MISSION DECISION.” Pray tell, what is that mission? Irrelevance in a global economy?

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

11 months

💯 + the state is willing to give away lots of public money to bring in new jobs (like the battery plant in Weirton) but won’t spend (notably less) to save existing jobs? Mon County voters need to hold Mon County Republicans like Mike Oliverio accountable for those priorities.

Amelia Knisely

@ameliaknisely

11 months

I've said this to multiple people and will now share it on here: If 300 coal miners were losing their jobs in a span of 6 months, we'd be writing about it -- a lot. WVU is a major employer in our state (with a declining population).

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Scott Crichlow

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1 year

Mark Gavin’s defense of Gordon Gee’s cuts is a heck of a thing - we’re cutting Math because it’s teachers’ standards are too high; we’re cutting almost all world language training but we’ll send our English-speaking students abroad … to talk with other English speakers? 🤷‍♂️

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

3 years

Seeing WVU commencement pics of maskless people as far as the eye can see shortly after hearing a (mid-20s, generally healthy, has had 3 shots) friend describe the 104 degree fever he got from Omicron does not make me hopeful that we’ll have a smooth start to the Spring semester.

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Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

1 year

“One thing Gee is adamant he will not do is to request more funding from the state legislature to fix what he is convinced is a structural problem.“ Why have a President with a “woo” strength if he won’t even ask for money that would support students?

Derek Krissoff

@DerekKrissoff

1 year

For everyone pointing out West Virginia has a surplus and should invest some of those resources in avoiding mass firings and closures at WVU: “One thing Gee is adamant he will not do is to request more funding from the state legislature.”

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