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WVU Board OKs Exceeding Non-Classified Staff Limit

  West Virginia University’s board has approved a plan to expand the percentage of the school’s non-classified staff.

The Dominion Post reports that the move is in response to a new state law that changed the way the percentage of a school’s staff is calculated. Previously, all employees were counted. The new law removes faculty from the equation.

The change increased WVU’s percentage of non-classified staff from 12 percent to 24 percent. As of July, a university’s percentage of non-classified staff can’t exceed 20 percent.

Non-classified staff includes deans and athletic coaches.

The WVU Board of Governors voted last week to increase the percentage of non-classified employees to up to 25 percent of the staff. The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission must approve the proposal.

WVU Plans Second Phase of Transit Upgrade

West Virginia University is planning a multimillion-dollar upgrade of its Personal Rapid Transit.
 
The upgrade is the second phase of a modernization plan for the 38-year-old system.
 
The university’s Board of Governor is scheduled to vote Friday on authorizing up to $60 million in bond funding for the project.
 
The Dominion Post reports that WVU officials provided details of the project last week during a Board of Governors Finance Committee meeting.
 
Associate vice president Randy Hudak said the work includes electronics that operate the track, the stations, the pay booths and other items.
 
Vice president Narvel Weese said WVU hopes to obtain $17.5 million in federal funding for the project.
 
Hudak said 85 percent of the PRT’s passengers are students. The other passengers are employees or the public.
 

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