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Yahoo
18 hours ago
- Business
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WVU approves $1.2 billion plan, raises tuition by 3%
MORGANTOWN, (WBOY) — The West Virginia University Board of Governors approved a $1.2 billion financial plan for Fiscal Year 2026 during a meeting on Friday, June 13. The plan consists of a just over three percent tuition increase for both undergraduate and graduate students. This increase will affect both in-state and out-of-state students. The tuition increase will take place before the Fall 2025 semester with resident undergraduate students seeing an increase of $324 per semester and non-resident undergraduate students seeing $912 per semester. Graduate students on the Morgantown campus are also affected by this new financial plan for Fiscal Year 2026 with resident tuition increasing by $360 and non-resident tuition increasing by $945. Multiple women charged after attack on 2 victims in Morgantown 'Our goal throughout the budget process has been to strike a balance between responsible stewardship and quality, strategic expenditures that are essential to position WVU for sustainable growth and continued excellence,' Kevin J. Craig, chair of the BOG Finance and Facilities and Revitalization Committee, said in the release. This increase doesn't just affect WVU's Morgantown campus. WVU Potomac State College in Keyser and WVU Institute of Technology will also be seeing an increase in tuition for both its undergraduate and graduate students. Resident undergraduate students at WVU Potomac State College and WVU Institute of Technology will see their tuition increase by $204 and $420 per semester, respectively, and non-resident students by $468 and $672 per semester, respectively. Students will also be charged an additional $125 per semester for a Mountaineer Athletics Advantage Fee that was created to further support the future of WVU Athletics and WVU student athletes, according to a press release. 'WVU is committed to providing a high-value education for both resident and non-resident students while also ensuring the institution maintains long-term financial sustainability,' Paula Congelio, University vice president and chief financial officer, said. 'The University's tuition and fee structure remains competitive with Big 12 peers, regional peers and other higher education institutions in West Virginia, from both resident and non-resident perspectives.' The meeting also served as the last for outgoing University President Gordon Gee, who had his contract extended from June 30 to July 14 to accommodate July 15 as the start date for incoming University President Michael Benson. The next regular meeting for the Board of Governor's is scheduled for Sept. 26. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Politics
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WVU acknowledges revocation of student visas
Apr. 10—MORGANTOWN — WVU on Thursday said it is continuing to "work directly " with a number of students and graduates whose international visas have been revoked recently by the federal government—but would not discuss what such a process might entail. The university is keeping the identities of the involved students confidential. "At this point, we're not able to provide specifics beyond this, " spokeswoman Shauna Johnson said in an email confirming the revocations. To date, three students and three alumni on the downtown campus have been affected, Johnson said, along with three more students at the WVU Institute of Technology in Beckley. That includes the revocation of their student visas and termination of their records through the federal Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS as the network is commonly known, Johnson said. Each person programmed into SEVIS came back with the same message, she said: "Name found in criminal records check." The action in Morgantown and Beckley is part of a national sweep across campuses nationwide that began with last month's arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder and Columbia University graduate student who led protests at his school last spring. Then, the mission was to target students involved in pro-Palestinian activism or speech. Secretary of State Marco Rubio last month, in fact, vowed the administration would continue to be relentless in targeting, in his words, "these lunatics, " so deemed by the White House as threatening U.S. foreign-policy interests through their protests. However, as colleges and universities are now telling the Associated Press, that national net has apparently taken a wider cast. More schools are seeing visas stripped from international students who have no known connections to such protests — but may have, say, a traffic violation on their record which then be cited to pull the academic credential. There's a difference between persecution and watching out for the best interests of the U.S., said Michelle Mittelstadt, director public affairs at the Migration Policy Institute. "What you're seeing happening with international students is really a piece of the much greater scrutiny that the Trump administration is bringing to bear on immigrants of all different categories, " she said.
