by Alicia Kalka The national conversation on the value of a college degree is heating up. We hear it in the media outlets every week. There are […]
Tag: higher education
Thriving, not just surviving
by Steven Roberts By barring the use of race in college admissions, the Supreme Court has focused attention on a critical question: Who gets into the most […]
Legislature gets ‘F’ in state funding for higher education
The $45 million shortfall West Virginia University faces is still some of the biggest news around town. In the past week, we’ve discussed the issue in terms […]
Guest essay: Why Biden’s liberal politics must end W.Va. higher education’s financial woes
by Aisha Rizwan Reportedly, West Virginia University is facing a $75 million budget shortfall in the next decade, with $45 million needed in the short term. The […]
June 11 letters to the editor
WVU should’ve known enrollment would drop I am surprised that, as The Dominion Post reported on Wednesday, June 7, “Faculty question how the university got into a […]
Guest essay: To the mawmaws and pawpaws: We need you to encourage kids to go to college
by Alicia Kalka I grew up in southern West Virginia, in the small town of St. Albans (about 30 minutes south of Charleston). My mawmaw and I […]
Dual enrollment program to give college credits
The West Virginia Legislature adopted and Gov. Jim Justice signed legislation establishing West Virginia’s first statewide dual enrollment program to allow more students to take college courses […]
Adjuncts are the gig workers of higher education
by Hank Kalet Today’s word is “adjunctification.” Adjunctification is the process by which the gig economy is imposed on America’s colleges and universities and turns formerly tenured […]
Higher ed tuition needs to come down
by Jay Ambrose Whither America? I don’t know and I hate discouraging news but how do you avoid it because, even when you look at higher education, […]
Why are so many state jobs vacant? They don’t pay
With all this talk of surpluses, tax cuts and where money should go, we’d like to draw attention to another of West Virginia’s chronically underfunded services: state […]
