The presidents of Marshall and West Virginia universities are getting together to discuss the state’s higher education issues.
Marshall’s Stephen J. Kopp also will give WVU’s E. Gordon Gee a private tour of Marshall’s Huntington campus on Tuesday.
Gee is in his second stint as WVU’s president. In March, the Higher Education Policy Commission approved his appointment by the university’s Board of Governors. He also served as WVU’s president from 1981 to 1985.
Both universities are in the midst of long-term infrastructure improvements.
Marshall’s plan also focuses on upgrades in technology, student housing and student life. It includes landscaping enhancements and an overhaul of the Memorial Student Center.
WVU is in the midst of nearly $1 billion in construction projects on campus, its university health system and student housing.
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NJ Man Pleads No Contest in WVU Frat Hazing
A Thursday sentencing is set for a New Jersey man who pleaded no contest to hazing at a West Virginia University fraternity.
Michael Sousa entered the plea Tuesday in Monongalia County Magistrate Court.
Prosecutors are recommending a six-month suspended sentence, 48 hours in jail and community service. The defense is asking that Sousa be fined.
The 21-year-old from Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, was one of three people charged in connection with an incident at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity on Nov. 15, 2013. Police said a 19-year-old man was physically assaulted and injured while participating in an initiation.
Co-defendants Andrew Nemes of Huntington Beach, Calif., and Christopher Lazzell of Morgantown are scheduled to appear in magistrate court on June 23.
WVU Gets A Golf Coach
Sean Covich will be the head coach of the men’s golf program. The golf team will start competing in July 2015, according to a news release.
Covich spent the last three seasons as an assistant coach for the Mississippi State University Bulldogs, a school in the Southeastern Conference.
Men’s golf was actually a varsity sport at WVU from 1933-82.
The reintroduction of men’s golf as a varsity sport will satisfy a requirement from WVU’s Conference, the Big 12, that a school must meet a minimum of six men’s and six women’s sports.
At the start of the 2015-16 academic year, WVU will have six men’s sports and 10 women’s sports, recognized by the Big 12.
WVU Hospitals Names New President and CEO
A University of Pittsburgh Medical Center administrator has been named president and CEO of West Virginia University Hospitals.
Dr. Albert L. Wright Jr.’s appointment is effective Aug. 1. He will replace Bruce McClymonds, who is retiring at the end of May.
West Virginia United Health System president and CEO Dr. Christopher C. Colenda announced Wright’s appointment Tuesday.
Wright currently is vice president for operations at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian Shadyside.
West Virginia United Health System includes hospitals in Morgantown, Parkersburg, Bridgeport, and the Eastern Panhandle.
WVU Rifle Team Wins NCAA Championship
National Champs again! The No. 1-ranked West Virginia University rifle team won its 16th NCAA Championship in Murray, Ky., Friday.
The Mountaineers won the championship last year too, and it’s the third win under coach Jon Hammond. WVU’s first title under Hammond came in 2009. The rifle team is the only WVU program to win an NCAA Championship.
Hammond says it was a relaxed win, and that his team was confident, focused, and capable. He also expects good things next year as all five shooters that shot at this year’s championship will return.
WVU, the five-time reigning Great American Rifle Conference (GARC) champions, finished the 2013-14 campaign with a 10-0 overall record and a 7-0 conference mark.
Seven Mountaineers earned a combined 10 National Rifle Association All-America awards, while four Mountaineers were named to the College Rifle Coaches’ Association (CRCA) All-America Teams.
Marshall Opens Food Pantry for Students
College students are not part of the group that most would think about needing help from a food pantry. Marshall University officials say the need is definitely there for that little extra support for students to get by and are doing something about it.
Marshall University and the Huntington Area Food Bank have teamed up to develop a food pantry on campus for students. The idea for the pantry began two years ago.
Marshall isn’t the first college in the area to provide it’s students with a pantry, West Virginia State has a pantry that will be one-year-old in March. And West Virginia University has a pantry that opened in the fall of 2010.
The pantry is open from 10 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon Tuesdays and Fridays. In order to obtain food students need their I.D. and have to sign in.
Donations of both non-perishable food and money for the pantry are welcome.
Groups around campus like the Marshall University Alumni Association are holding food drives to help support the pantry.