W.Va. Book Festival Announces Featured Authors For 2024
West Virginia’s annual book festival celebrating national and regional authors will come to the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center this October.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA competitive scholarship to encourage high schoolers to become teachers isn't accepting applications due to a lack of funding.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWest Virginia’s higher education institutions are in need of some major maintenance repairs, according to West Virginia Higher Education Chancellor Sarah Armstrong Tucker. It’s been almost a decade since they received deferred maintenance funding.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWest Virginia’s K-12 and higher education leaders launched a new resource this week that will assist students by helping them find college and career options that meet their specific interests and needs after high school.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsProspective college students and their families around the state can attend a new series of financial aid webinars aimed at helping them navigate the process of seeking a degree. More than $100 million is available in financial aid annually in West Virginia, and state officials say the webinars can help students better understand what is available to them.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWe continue with our summer education radio series, “Closing the COVID Gap.” In our last story, we heard from families in West Virginia who are sticking with virtual or homeschool this fall. Now, we turn our attention to high school seniors and higher education.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsCoronavirus cases among college students, faculty and staff in West Virginia remained low this fall. By the end of the semester, both public and private schools averaged a cumulative positivity rate of just 2 percent at all four-year institutions after holding a 1 percent cumulative positivity rate for several months.
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