The university courted controversy by slashing programs and laying off both tenured and nontenured faculty members. More spooked professors are leaving in addition to those cuts, but so are key leaders who pushed... — read more 

“'WVU is a harbinger for what awaits much of U.S. higher education” through manufactured crises and similarly draconian financial... — read more 

"It is unclear when West Virginia’s cuts will end." https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/tenure/2023/10/17/wvu-professors-get-their-layoff-notices

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/shared-governance/2023/09/15/despite-national-pushback-wvu-will-cut-faculty

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/institutions/research-universities/2023/08/31/wvu-r-1-flagshipwithout-language-degrees-or-math?

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/education/wvu-to-drop-32-majors-including-all-world-language-programs/article_2b3d0aae-3962-544b-b1a3-7c28cb6df3ef.html

The state’s flagship university has a $45 million budget deficit and administrators say layoffs are necessary. Faculty have criticized the speed and manner in which cuts are being made to tenured positions... — read more 

With more cuts expected, West Virginia University’s governing board moved forward Friday with slashing 12 graduate and doctorate programs amid a $45 million budget shortfall and approved a just under 3 percent tuition... — read more 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2023/06/23/distraught-west-virginia-u-faculty-push-back

"When West Virginia University took the local campus out of Montgomery five years ago, it took more from the rural town than just a college. Suddenly, 1,500 students were gone. More than 100 staff and faculty moved out. The bar and the car dealership... — read more 

https://www.register-herald.com/news/education/university-s-projected-enrollment-decline-of-5-000-over-the-next-decade-could-require-a/article_a7bda6c8-dd5e-11ed-8f93-07c24bea4bb9.html

"For Fiscal Year 2022, WVU’s total revenue was $1.2 billion. This accounted for a loss of $50.7 million compared to Fiscal Year 2021, or a 4%... — read more 

https://www.jkcf.org/research/state-university-no-more-out-of-state-enrollment-and-the-growing-exclusion-of-high-achieving-low-income-students-at-public-flagship-universities/

What could possibly go wrong? https://www.techrepublic.com/article/meta-funds-virtual-classrooms-at-7-universities-complete-with-vr-headsets/

"My first guess for the most vulnerable states? Missouri, West Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Indiana, because they are Republican controlled. " http://collegemeltdown.blogspot.com/2019/07/alaska-is-leading-college-meltdown-whos.html

Enrollment declines at the state flagship university. https://www.williamsondailynews.com/news/year-college-freshman-enrollment-drops/article_ad734f17-f8d1-50df-ba45-739cc7be5796.html