News from the Board

Following each regular and special meeting of the WVU Board of Governors, or whenever a major development occurs, a story with pertinent information and action items is released. Those links can be found below, beginning in September, 201

• New Academic Programs, Update to Presidential Search and Campus Carry Highlight WVU BOG Meeting
• WVU Board of Governors Takes Initial Steps in University Presidential Search Process
• WVU Plans for July 1 Implementation of Campus Self-Defense Act
• WVU to Launch Robotics Engineering Major
• New Majors, Medical Breakthrough Signal Success for WVU
• Board of Governors Approves Academic Recommendations to Strategically Reposition WVU
• WVU cuts Administrative leadership amid ongoing University-wide Transformation, BOG Chair says "We must do this work"
• WVU Board of Governors Extends Gee's Contract to 2025
• WVU Board Approves 2024 Budget, Tuition Rates
• WVU Adjusts Budget Projections, Explains PEIA Changes and Accelerates Academic Transformation Efforts
• Gee Highlights Service, Students and Changes in Higher Education During WVU Board of Governors Medeting
• WVU Recaps First "Normal" Semester Since 2019, Looks Ahead to 2023
• WVU Board of Governors Tackles Student Success, Budget Adjustments
• WVU Looks Ahead to Needs of Future Students While Implementing New Measures to Support Those Currently Enrolled
• WVU Board of Governors approves 2023 Budget, Tuition Rates
• WVU Celebrates Student Success, Outlines Campus Improvements During BOG Meeting
• WVU Takes Steps to Address Dining Concerns, Modernize Venues
• WVU's Academic Transformation to focus on Student Success Initiatives in 2022
  
• WVU Names New College, Sets Course for Next Decade to Transform and Modernize Campus, Operations
• WVU Board of Governors Applauds Administration's Handling of COVID-19 Pandemic on Campus
• WVU Board of Governors Approves 2022 Budget, Tuition Rates
• New Food Options in Works for WVU's Morgantown Campus
• Gee Addresses Mental Health Challenges Facing Campus Communities as WVU's Board of Governors Resumes In-Person Meetings
• WVU Adjusts Amid Pandemic-Related Impacts, Plans for the Future
• WVU's Board of Governors Receives Updates on COVID-10 Response, Transformation Efforts
• Gee:  WVU Must "Differentiate and Lead" during "Perilous Times" in Higher Ed
• WVU Plans for the Future as BOG Reviews Year that Required "Laser-Lake" Focus 
• WVU Adapts and Plans for the Future Amid COVID-19 Response
• WVU Board of Governors Approves Negotiation to Amend Multimedia Rights Agreement with Learfield IMG College
• WVU BOG Amends Rules as New Federal Title IX Regulations go into Effect
• WVU Board of Governors welcomes Harris and Riggs, hears update on COVID-19 response
• Justice appoints Patrice Harris, reappoints two others to WVU Board of Governors
• WVU Board OKs reduced budget for coming fiscal year
• Gee announces first steps in WVU’s efforts to address campus racial shortcomings
• West Virginia University, Divisional Campuses, Plans to Open for Fall, Holds Line on Tuition, Fees for '20-'21 Year
• Graduation Rate on Upward Trend at West Virginia University
• WVU Amends Morgantown Steam Plant Contract, Refinances Bonds
• WVU's Retention Efforts Highlighted at Board of Governors Meeting
• WVU Has Strong Financial Performance in FY'19
• WVU Improves Retention Rate to go Along with Larger First-Freshmen Class
• WVU Board Begins Process to Extend President Gee's Contract
• Board of Governors Approves Leasing Athletic Center to Montgomery YMCA
• WVU Board Approves New Policies Governing Ethics, Identity Theft and Tobacco
• Board of Governors Proposes Tightening of Tobacco-Free Campus Policy
• WVU BOG Continues Implementing "Freedom Agenda," Hears Annual Reports
• WVU Beefs Up Entrepreneurial Support with Space for B&E Startup Accelerator
• WVU Board of Governors Approves 2019 Budget, Including Tuition, Salary Increases
• WVU Consolidates Neuroscience Research Into New Department
• WVU Board of Governors Sends Out Updated Rules for Review
• WVU Expects to have 1,100 Students in Living Learning Communities by 2019
• WVU Facilities Master Update Features 16 Projects Under Active Consideration
• WVU Board of Governors Receives Facilities Plan Update
• WVU Approves Three-Week, Online Winter Term
• WVU's State of Minds Campaign Nears End, but Need for Support Remains
• WVU Board of Governors Begins Process of Increased Self-Governance
• WVU Board Approves $1.07 Billion Budget, 5 Percent Increase in Tuition for FY18
• Gee and BOG Chair Flaherty Address Budget Stalemate and Implications
• BOG Awaits Resolution on State Budget Negotiations Before Setting Tuition
• BOG Backs WVU Values: Service, Curiosity, Respect, Accountability, Appreciation
• WVU Board of Governors Receives Updates on Finances, Academics
• WVU's Arnold Hall and Apartments To Be Closed
• WVU Board of Governors Supports Partnership to Advance Health, Education and Community Wellness Facility
• WVU's Global Initiatives and Adventure WV Lifted Up to Board of Governors
• Board of Governors Updated on WVU's Largest, Most Diverse Class Ever
• WVU Board of Governors Approves $1 Billion Budget for Upcoming Fiscal Year
  
• WVU Board of Governors Forwards New Gee Five-Year Contract to HEPC
  
• WVU BOG Approves New Degree Programs, Receives Update on Beckley Campus
  
• Research Accolades Rain Down on West Virginia University, Board Told
  
• WVU Receives "Clean" Audit Report
  
• As New Graduates Prepare for Commencement, WVU BOG Reviews Successful Semester
  
• Gray Clouds and Silver Linings at WVU Board of Governors Meeting
  
• WVU Board Approves New Business Degree That Meets Emerging In-Demand "Big Data" Field
  
• WVU Beckley will become home to WVU Tech in 2017, WVU Board decides
  
• WVU Board of Governors approves $1 billion budget; campus infrastructure projects
• BOG Endorses Student Success Initiative, 'Dream First' Campaign to Support Student Scholarships and Offset Tuition Hikes
• WVU Board Gives Green Light to Purchase Mountain State Assets in Beckley 
• Board Approves New Degree Programs, Receives Update on “Due Diligence” Agreement with MSU
• WVU Extends Agreement to Explore Purchase of Mountain State University 
• WVU Reaches Two Billion-Dollar Thresholds, Ends Fiscal Year with Stable Finances
• WVU Board Approves New Degree in Response to Energy Industry Needs 
• WVU Approves FY2015 Budget Reflecting State Reductions, Increased Tuition and Aid
• WVU’s Five Public-Private Projects Will Provide $81 Million in Taxes to State, Local Coffers
• WV Higher Education Policy Commission confirms Gordon Gee as WVU President
• Gee Appointed West Virginia University President—For a Third Time 
• WVU Presidential Search Committee Endorses Gee for Permanent Post  
• WVU Board Approves Pedestrian and Vehicular Safety Projects in Evansdale 
• Tomblin Names Retired Hospital Executive, Tom Jones, to WVU Board of Governors
• WVU Board of Governors Approves Presidential Search Committee  
• WVU Board Approves In-Demand Hospitality, Tourism Degree Program; Presidential Search Characteristics
• WVU’s Jim Clements, David Hardesty, Jim Dailey and Gordon Gee, on Death of Dr. Charles Vest
• Welcome Back, Gee: WVU Community Greets Returning President With Open Arms                      
• Reaction to Appointment of E. Gordon Gee as WVU President on an Interim Basis
• Gordon Gee to Return to WVU as President on Interim Basis; Will Retain Ohio, National Higher Education Responsibilities 
• Board Unanimously Agrees on Interim President, Proposed Search Procedures; Will Take to HEPC Friday for Final Approval 
• WVU Board Takes no Formal Action on Naming an Interim President, Will Reconvene Thursday
• WVU Board Narrows Field of Interim Presidential Candidates, Procedures for National Search
• WVU Board Will Move Swiftly to Name an Interim President, Conduct National Search
• WVU BOG Chairman James W. Dailey II and Others on the Departure of President Jim Clements
• Evansdale Redevelopment Will Bring Vibrancy, Walkability to That Part of Campus