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Support Wavering Among Some Wheeling City Council Members for Bluefield State Project After Local Colleges Express Opposition | News, Sports, Jobs

Staff Writer Photo by Eric Ayres – The Education and Administration Building on the former Ohio Valley Medical Center campus is being targeted as a potential site for a future Engineering and Manufacturing Center to train and educate engineering students from Bluefield State College. WHEELING Wheeling City Council members had mixed reactions to backlash from three local institutions of higher learning, which this week jointly and publicly opposed the city’s efforts to bring Bluefield State College to Wheeling. Some council members on Thursday indicated that, moving forward, they would reconsider their support of the effort to bring the southern West Virginia college to Wheeling, a project initiated earlier this year through a memorandum of understanding between the city and Bluefield State. Other council members and city leaders indicated they will continue supporting the move, another part of the ongoing effort to fill vacant space at the city-owned former Ohio Valley M

Wheeling mayor disappointed in opposition from local colleges on potential of Bluefield State using OVMC property

Wheeling mayor disappointed in opposition from local colleges on potential of Bluefield State using OVMC property
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Commission: Wheeling University on probation | News, Sports, Jobs

Staff writer File PROBATION The Higher Learning Commission has placed Wheeling University on probation, saying the school lacks the fiscal resources to sustain itself. WHEELING The Higher Learning Commission has placed Wheeling University on probation after determining the school “does not have sufficient fiscal resources to support its operation,” and relies too heavily on subsidies it receives from the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. HLC President Barbara Gellman-Danley sent a letter to WU President Ginny Favede dated Thursday, notifying the school of its probation and outlining the reasons behind its decision. In a response released Monday, Favede said Wheeling University remains “fully accredited by the HLC” while working to address concerns raised by the group’s decision. She added that, though the school is on probation, the commission also has removed the “financial distress” designation imposed on WU in May 2019.

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