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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

10 months

This is what happens when administrators and outside consultants make decisions. Education is weakened, students are harmed, and West Virginians lose access to countless opportunities. Language programs open up a worldwide set of options, and no R1 school should be without one.

Lisa Di Bartolomeo ☮️🇺🇦🌈

@LMDiBartolomeo

10 months

The Department of World Languages at #WVU is recommended for dissolution, eliminating ALL programs, grad and undergrad, and reducing faculty to ZERO.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

To sum up, the University Assembly at WVU has voted no confidence in Gee (797/100) and to freeze the Academic Transformation (747/79) process. We are so grateful to the students who showed up in support #StopTheCuts #WVUMistake

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

How does intellectual insularity enable a culture of complicity, faulty decision making, and mismanagement of funds? Not surprisingly, the problems at WVU go deep into the culture of the university. #SaveWVU

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

Make no mistake, y'all. This statement is *proof* that under the Gee administration & the current BOG, faculty are NOT included in decision making, this process has been anything BUT transparent, & shared governance is a sham at West Virginia University. #StopTheCuts #WVUMistake

West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

The BOG issues an immediate response: "The Board of Governors unequivocally supports the leadership of President Gee and the strategic repositioning of WVU and rejects the multiple examples of misinformation that informed these resolutions."

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

2 years

Springtime is makeover season, and we're following the year's hottest trend: Unionizing. WVHESN is now officially West Virginia Campus Workers -- a union for employees at WVU (and other WV higher ed institutions!)

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

8 months

Gee & Co. say they've been transparent, but WVU employee cuts go far deeper than many realize. 143 faculty cuts were announced, but 135 faculty & staff were cut earlier this year, 8 were cut from Chambers & $800K in cuts to library staff & faculty are forthcoming #SaveWVU

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

3 years

The administration has released a warning about the threat of a public suicide on campus tomorrow with just enough information to be terrifying, but not enough information to help anyone make an informed decision about how to keep themselves or others safe.

andrea

@mtnsitaw

3 years

The more I think about it, the more surreal it seems. WVU has to acknowledge that repeatedly telling us to contact the Carruth Center or Suicide Prevention Hotlines isn't enough. It's a band-aid. Make our semesters more bearable.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

10 months

We fully support the students taking their education into their own hands and demanding accountability from @WestVirginiaU leadership and to #stopthecuts . See you at noon! #WalkoutWVU

West Virginia United SU

@wvunitedsu

10 months

Can we get #WalkoutWVU trending today?

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

The senior administration at WVU is making huge cuts to World Languages & Literatures. Meanwhile, Pitt is expanding in this area with a new Korean major, endowed chair in Korean Studies and new degree programs in Asian American/diasporic Asian studies 👀

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

We're here to remind the BoG that they have a choice. They can stay on this unnecessary and deeply destructive "transformation" path, or listen to workers, students, and community members. We can make a better plan that addresses the budget and moves WVU into the future together.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

You know things are bad when students are protesting to save *math* and *languages* programs. #StopTheCuts #SaveWVU

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

10 months

Th campus conversation held by @WestVirginiaU today reveled that admin may recommend more discontinuations after the appeals process. The message they are sending is clear, accept our recommendations and decrease the quality of your instruction, or get fired. #stopthecuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

1 year

Our website with actions you can take against the proposed program and job cuts at WVU is live! If you're an alumni, student, staff, faculty, grad worker, or just a supportive community member, there's an action for you. Please share widely!

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

10 months

Powerful testimony from a @WestVirginiaU alumni showing how important language programs are, and why all West Virginian students need access to them at their flagship university. Please, join @wvunitedsu tomorrow at noon to fight back agaisnt these destructive cuts!

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

11 months

We recently found WVU's contract with outside consultant RPK Group. The contract, which covers April 18-December 31, 2023 is worth $875,000. These are the hourly rates RPK Group is charging while WVU staff lose their jobs to budget cuts:

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

11 months

Our research has clearly shown that Gee's mismanagement led to the crisis WVU now finds itself in, and which has already cost over 100 campus workers their jobs. Why does Gee get an extension while they aren't even given a chance to clear out their desks?

WVU BOG to consider one-year contract extension for Gee - WV MetroNews

Current contract which goes to June 30, 2024 would be extended to June 30, 2025.

wvmetronews.com

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

WVU campus workers and students are out here for today's BoG meeting. If you're in town, join us! There's still time to sign up to speak. #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

The Board of Governors meeting is packed! #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

10 months

This is an essential point that @WestVirginiaU has been obscuring since this process began. The figure they push is exclusively counting first line majors - which excludes second line double majors, minors, and anyone taking individual courses in the affected programs. (1/2)

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

BOG now out of Executive Session. No decisions were made during Exec Session. Each person will get 2 mins to speak. Anyone disruptive will have to leave #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

11 months

Who are the people losing their jobs at WVU? They're workers who have been at the university for a decade or more. They're West Virginians with kids in local schools, elderly parents in the area, and spouses who don't make enough to keep a family afloat on their own. #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

10 months

While much of the attention has been on the proposed closure of World Languages, the other programs being targeted are no less important or vital. Landscape Architecture is a clear example of a program that supports WVU's land grant mission, connects to industry, (1/2)

Lynn Price Reinke

@lynnreinke

10 months

More than a headcount. “The Landscape Architecture Department, over the last three years, has touched 30 communities in the state to help with community development, design, and their needs.” Great to see alumni speaking out. #WVU

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

Comment by the last speaker: "If you do this, what you are saying is that the RPK Group is more important than the people of West Virginia." 🔥

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

10 months

We are gathering together the various petitions to save programs at WVU on our website. Please visit and sign the petitions we've shared, and send us any that we may have missed. Solidarity! #StopTheCuts

Stop the Cuts WVU

Visit the post for more.

aftacademics.org

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

8 months

We're getting ready to live tweet the State of the University address. Some updates, a little commentary, a little fact-checking...grab your popcorn and settle in👀👀

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

2 years

This is the data that WVU wanted to hide when they quitely stopped reporting COVID test results last week. In just two weeks of instruction, the number of positive COVID test results at WVU has DOUBLED. No word yet if the mask mandate, which expires next week will be extended.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

Please share widly!

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

This is absolutely not our stance. Different colleges & universities serve different needs and have different missions & goals. The problem is that kids *who want a large R1 experience* that's comparable to R1s in other states now need to go out of state & pay more $$$$$.

WVdown2TN

@WVdown2TN

9 months

@Aaron_Staats What I find amusing in all these complaints is the arrogance that WVU is the only the school in WV that WV kids can go to…

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

4 years

Our fellow workers at Kroger voted to strike. Remember: friends don't let friends cross picket lines. #Solidarity

UFCW Local 400

@UFCW400

4 years

BREAKING: Members under our Kroger West Virginia contract voted overwhelmingly to reject the company's offer and approve a strike. We sent a message loud and clear. Contract negotiations will continue for now. Read the latest:

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

@johannawinant @ARoseCasey @Dr_JessieW @wvunitedsu @dannytotz John Fox from Morgantown and Promise Scholarship recipient wanted to attend grad school at only WVU, deserve to access knowlege about Appalachian Blackness, to have a sense of pride to be from WV. Standing ovation. #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

Anyone else notice how both Resolutions include numerous source citations—unlike the vast majority of unmoored claims made by the Gee administration? *This* is why the Department of English is needed. #StopTheCuts #WVUMistake #MisinformationIsMoreThanABuzzword

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

@johannawinant @ARoseCasey @Dr_JessieW @wvunitedsu @dannytotz @LeslieWilber Next speaker is a first gen student at WVU. Even though their chosen fields of study are not part if the cuts, many are feeling the shockwaves of what they are doing. Gee is not Appalachian, was not born poor but instead benefits from Appalachian oppression #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

3 years

Solidarity with @BAmazonUnion

BAmazonUnion

@BAmazonUnion

3 years

Today, we witnessed the incredible #solidarity of the #labor movement! In the pouring rain, #unions & the public came together to show support for our fight. We're making history, and we have the support of millions all over the world. #BAmazonUnion VOTE #UnionYES ! #1U

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

Wonder if @JimJusticeWV is paying attention to today's public forum at WVU. This fight has been covered in @Forbes , @NYTimes , @WSJ , @thenation , @chronicle , @insidehighered , and countless other publications. The country is watching WV drive its flagship university off a cliff.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

1 year

Another takeaway from our English grad workers action on Mon. is they have OVERWHELMING support from faculty within their department. English faculty is circulating a statement of support for grad workers demanding living wages and an end to fees. So far 28 faculty have signed.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

11 months

Grad workers in WVU's World Languages department found out today that they will owe an additional $720/semester in college tuition (international grads will owe $920 with the new SEVIS fee). This brings their out of pocket costs to over $1600/semester, out of $15k stipends.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

11 months

This. WV doesn't have a surplus, it has drowning public services.

Freem

@freemmatt

11 months

@WVCampusWorkers @TheTattooedProf This is partly why everyone should be outraged when they hear about a state budget surplus. When you aren't meeting the basic needs of your constituency, it's easy to save money.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

WVU faculty colleagues! The WVU University Assembly will be TOMORROW, Wednesday (9/6) at 12pm at the Clay Theater in the Creative Arts Center on the Evansdale Campus 🧵

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

11 months

As tempting as it may be to just hope for the best and wait out the storm of budget cuts at WVU, not fighting back is not an option. This isn't just a local financial emergency, it's the new model of higher-ed management that's being rolled out across the country.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

1 year

We're calling on the WVU community—folks who live in WV; know someone who works or studies here; whose business depends on the health of the university; etc—to send a letter (using our quick form & template) against the program and job cuts at WVU!

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

It's true that many PhD programs, especially in the humanities, require 2 years of language coursework. Some even require two languages outside of English. The administration is weakening students' chances of getting into such programs. #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

11 months

This is a clear threat to campus workers who choose to speak out against WVU leadership in defense of the university and its students. This is why we are organizing. No one can afford to speak out alone, but there is safety and power in numbers! Join us:

wvcampusworkers

Visit the post for more.

aftacademics.org

Scott Crichlow

@SCrichlow

11 months

A new “term and condition” for employment as a WVU faculty member is complying with “WVU values” like these. Do faculty at peer institutions face a similar requirement? This looks to me like a gag order, meant to silence criticism of Gordon Gee & Co.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

From @AAUP : "tenure is inseparable from the due-process protections, such as those set forth in Regulation 4c(3)-(7), that define it. Absent such protections, tenure, & by extension academic freedom, cannot be said to exist at WVU" #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

2 years

Solidarity with Kenyon workers on strike!

K-SWOC

@kswoc

2 years

Today’s picket line letting the Board of Trustees know what we think of election delays and union busting

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

Needed to make some corrections to the numbers so I deleted the previous post. Thanks, @travismollohan ! Student enrollment at WVU has steadily decreased year over year since Gee started in 2014, with this year bringing it to an all time low since 2014.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

Press Release: West Virginia Campus Workers and West Virginia United Students Union Joint Response to WVU Board of Governors Vote @AFTunion @AAUP @WVUnitedSU

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

1 year

We are pleased that admin has withdrawn its promotion and tenure policy, and proud of the role that members of @WVCampusWorkers played in mobilizing to protect academic freedom and due process. This victory is a demonstration of what is possible when faculty work together. 1/3

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

3 years

West Virginia University is the single largest COVID-19 outbreak cluster in the state. 9 WVU Hospitals are operating at crisis level standards of care and ICUs and yet WVU's administration refuse to enact a vaccine mandate the majority of staff, students, and faculty support.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

2 years

Any other raises have to come at the dept. level, Maryanne Reed said -- because apparently WVU can't afford to just pay living wages willy-nilly like that. “There are not a lot of resources to put towards many things,” said the provost, who made $417,328 last year. Okay. Cool.

The Daily Athenaeum

@DailyAthenaeum

2 years

WVU has agreed to raise the minimum stipend for graduate workers by $1,500 over the next two years.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

The BOG issues an immediate response: "The Board of Governors unequivocally supports the leadership of President Gee and the strategic repositioning of WVU and rejects the multiple examples of misinformation that informed these resolutions."

WVU issues statement after University Faculty Assembly votes

West Virginia University issued the following statement from Taunja Willis-Miller, Chair, WVU Board of Governors, on Wednesday, Sept. 6, following a meeting of the University Faculty Assembly.

wvutoday.wvu.edu

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

🚨URGENT UPDATE🚨 The BoG public comment period will not begin until 11:30 tomorrow. If you were planning on attending at 10:30 when the meeting begins please keep this in mind! In person sign ups will be open until 11:28, and folks over Zoom can sign up using the Q&A function.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

1 year

This piece written about @GordonGee 10 years ago includes some truly shocking details about how he has personally helped drive up the cost of higher education for Americans, while undermining the quality of education at our colleges and universities.

The Lessons of the Megalomaniac University President | TIME.com

Universities are not businesses, and university presidents are not CEOs

ideas.time.com

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

The meeting is getting started at 12:09. Quorum has been met!

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

Student protester: "We're not done! ..I'm staying in this state and outliving these assholes!" #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

@johannawinant @ARoseCasey @Dr_JessieW @wvunitedsu @dannytotz Rosemary Hathaway, English faculty, speaking as daughter of two WVU alumni: "You can think you're doing something radical & call yourself disruptions but this is the same partisan bullshit that's been driving ppl out of WV." #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

Nearly 800 faculty have spoken and the BOG's response is: We're doing this anyway, hundreds of faculty with advanced degrees are simply misinformed—yet we're not going to make any effort to correct the record. #StopTheCuts #WVUMistake

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

10 months

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the WVU Board of Governors meeting yesterday! We managed to pack the meeting in the middle of the summer on almost no notice--that's what it means to be organized! We're getting stronger every day, join us:

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

"CCCC urges that WVU leadership follow AAUP guidelines on shared governance and consult widely with their on-campus experts before proceeding with either proposed or alternative plans for cost-saving predicated on efficiency-based models..." #StopTheCuts #WVUMistake

Jennifer Sano-Franchini

@jsanofranchini

9 months

CCCC joins the chorus of professional organizations responding to the cuts at WVU: CCCC Statement in Response to Proposed Cuts at WVU and Academic Austerity in Higher Education #StopTheCuts #WVUMistake @NCTE_CCCC @WVCampusWorkers @wvunitedsu #4c24

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

11 months

A faculty member shared that "So much data provided by RPK Group is wrong! Many departments and colleges are having to redo the numbers as they uncover multiple egregious errors." Are the staff and faculty doing RPK Group's work for them getting paid $100-$500 per hour?

West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

11 months

The faculty rep to the BoG asked the RPK Group of errors in data they have presented about programs that are under review. RPK consultant says faculty should "focus on the bigger picture" and not worry about small errors in enrollment data.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

3 years

University administrators to their graduate students & adjuncts.

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@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

More cuts that the administration is not announcing and instead sweeping under the rug. And last update is *8* people were let go in Business today. #SaveWVU

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

Frustrated that the BoG has chosen to ignore last week's landslide University Assembly votes? Let them know! The BOG is meeting twice this week: a public-comment forum on Thursday at 10:30, and the final vote on Friday at 9am. Be there and wear RED!

Commit to attending BoG meetings (9/14 at 10:30am) & (9/15 at 9:00am)

Please use this form to commit to attend to the BoG Meeting, speaking if you are willing, and bringing a letter to submit to the BoG

docs.google.com

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

797 yes, 100 no #StopTheCuts #WVUMistake

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

1 year

Is this really the best way to prepare WVU and its students for the future? 🤔

Budget cuts force WVU Library to suspend new book purchases

According to the WVU Library website, general operating expenses have been reduced by 30%.

www.wboy.com

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

1 year

Tonight from 5-8pm at the Mountainlair Plaza WVU will be having a pizza party in an effort to say "thank you" to its grad students. Join us at the party to demand the university shows real appreciation by cancelling its proposed new $500/year SEVIS fee for international grads 1/3

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

@johannawinant @ARoseCasey @Dr_JessieW @wvunitedsu @dannytotz @LeslieWilber English major, Appalachian studies minor, first gen students from Preston County. "Maybe this is a business to yall but this is your students future" and Appalachian students deserve the same opportunities as more affluent students #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

3 years

WVU Medicine reported today that nine of their hospital ICU's were at capacity, including the Morgantown WVU Ruby Hospital. Their hospital in Parkersburg is diverting patients because they've run out of oxygen.

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@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

This is what misinformation looks like. Senior administrators are not members of the University Assembly as outlined in the Faculty Constitution. Not that their votes would have changed the outcome. #StopTheCuts #WVUMistake

richie

@backstroke619

9 months

Are they complaining that they followed the rules in the faculty constitution? Or are they just needing filler before the statement?

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

10 months

At yesterday's meeting the BoG said no time was made for public comment because "no one signed up" (no one knew they could). Now the next Campus Conversation is canceled because there's "no new information to share." Isn't the point of a conversation that both sides get to speak?

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@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

@johannawinant @ARoseCasey @Dr_JessieW @wvunitedsu @dannytotz @LeslieWilber City council member @Butcher4wv notes concern of cuts for city of Morgantown, implores that the BOG freeze the cuts. Calls out the political and ideological partisanship underlying these cuts which are representitive of views of most extreme legislators. #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

7 months

Solidarity with students and faculty at UNC-Greensboro as they fight academic decimation.

Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education

@SFNDHE

7 months

One of our facilitators @lisalevenstein fighting Academic Portfolio Review at UNC-G. WVU going thru layoffs after a review. CT state system preparing for dept closures and mergers after its forthcoming review. #budgetactivism #HigherEd @AAUP @CSUAAUP

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West Virginia Campus Workers

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Deep cuts have already begun at WVU, and they aren't just hitting the niche liberal arts programs folks might assume. This "Academic Transformation" could easily become a downward spiral of shrinking enrollment and further cuts that hurts students and WV.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

@johannawinant @ARoseCasey @Dr_JessieW @wvunitedsu @dannytotz First gen college student and 8th gen WVian: "please don't make me feel embarrassed to say I go here" #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

@johannawinant @ARoseCasey @Dr_JessieW Christian Rowe (sp?) argues "this is a school and not a business" if they continue with Academic Transformation, never can they say they are listening to students or faculty or anyone else but for-profit corps like rpk! 👏👏👏👏 #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

@johannawinant @ARoseCasey @Dr_JessieW Christine Hoffman of English: tho BOG may not change their mind, they changed her mind when they ignored the uni assembly votes, asked who they think will stick around w/this kind of leadership who"ll "spit in your face & tell you it's raining" 👏👏👏 #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

1 year

Access to SNAP & well-funded foodbanks are nice, but they're not the answer. One of the most important ways WVU, WV's largest employer, can combat food insecurity on college campuses is to pay all of their employees, including graduate and undergraduate workers, fair wages.

The Daily Athenaeum

@DailyAthenaeum

1 year

West Virginia lawmakers have introduced a bill designed to combat food insecurity on college and university campuses. Here's what you need to know:

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

@johannawinant @ARoseCasey @Dr_JessieW @LMDiBartolomeo @wvunitedsu Case, to Gee: "you were right when you said that higher ed is under attack but you failed to acknowlege that YOU'RE the one attacking it" 💯💯💯💯 #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

The final vote 747 for, 79 against, 9 invalid. The motion passes #StopTheCuts #WVUMistake

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

@johannawinant @ARoseCasey @Dr_JessieW @wvunitedsu @dannytotz @LeslieWilber @Butcher4wv Mailyn Sadler uses basic math to show that what the administration is doing is undemocratic. "You are against West Virginians!!" #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

WVCW Responds to Unannounced Cuts—8 Chambers Faculty Members Let Go Due to Budget "These cuts are impacting units that were not identified for review or reductions under Academic Transformation." "In total, 281 WVU employees have been cut in 2023 that we are aware of." #SaveWVU

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

10 months

Another example of this admin masking harsh realities with kind words. The "Intent" of the appeals process matters little if the outcome is further weakening @WestVirginiaU . The message is clear: don't tell us the real impacts of our choices, or it could get worse. #stopthecuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

11 months

"This feels like theater." This comment from a member about the Board of Governors' reduction-in-force and severance policy rule changes says everything you need to know about the state of shared governance at WVU right now.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

We're told the same is happening w/Public Health. WVU senior admin is cutting Public Health by 25–30% as Pitt, JMU, UT Chattanooga, ETSU, App State+ are expanding, hiring multiple faculty this year 👀👀👀👀

West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

The senior administration at WVU is making huge cuts to World Languages & Literatures. Meanwhile, Pitt is expanding in this area with a new Korean major, endowed chair in Korean Studies and new degree programs in Asian American/diasporic Asian studies 👀

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

@johannawinant @ARoseCasey @Dr_JessieW @wvunitedsu @dannytotz History prof challenges the way they're using data in the cuts, importance of world languages in many professions, and they are required for many PhDs in History--including our own. Stop trying to predict an unpredictable history, support WVU students! #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

11 months

Short term budget cuts at WVU are frightening, but the long term implications of eroding shared governance and job insecurity are scarier still. No one can afford to keep their head down now, it's time to organize! Join us:

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

10 months

The continuing refusal to listen to anyone - faculty, staff, or student - and the ever present culture of fear this administration has brought to #WVU is unacceptable.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

2 years

Faculty: this is your fight too! When universities take advantage of any workers, all their workers suffer.

Indiana Grad Workers Coalition

@IndianaGrads

2 years

"IU faculty to host emergency meeting, discuss no confidence vote in provost." The strike continues into week 3. #iuonstrike22

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

3 years

We stand in solidarity with the graduate students who amplified the student, faculty, and staff majorities calling for a vaccine mandate at Gee's creepy state of the university speech today.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

. @johannawinant reading excerpt from her fact-checked open letter written w/ @ARoseCasey & @Dr_JessieW in the Boston Review, before @ARoseCasey reads from second half #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University - Boston Review

The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.

www.bostonreview.net

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

@johannawinant @ARoseCasey @Dr_JessieW Next speaker, lifelong Morgantown resident & grad student in Geology (thus not directly impacted) urging that BOG think about downstream impacts. "While you may have experience gutting workers comp in WV, you are not qualified to make these decisions" #StopTheCuts #SaveWVU

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

11 months

Unfortunately people who attended the WVU BoG meeting on Zoom have not been allowed to use the chat, see each other, or even see how many participants are on the call. If you're watching on Zoom, send us your thoughts!

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

10 months

Thread about one of the many important programs facing discontinuation at WVU.

Morgan

@MorganClutter3

10 months

@AnonymousF59605 So to be a landscape architect in WV, you’ll now have to become educated in another state! As WV either requires a 4 year degree (the two canceled) or many years of “experience” but you still have to pass the National exam in both cases.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

1 year

We are calling on WVU to give faculty and staff real power in strategic and financial decision making about the future of the university. We trust the workers who live in WV, are real experts in all things higher-ed, and don't get golden parachutes when they screw up.

West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

1 year

This piece written about @GordonGee 10 years ago includes some truly shocking details about how he has personally helped drive up the cost of higher education for Americans, while undermining the quality of education at our colleges and universities.

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

9 months

Student recipient of prestigious Gilman Grant speaking on the importance of Arabic and the kinds of professional interests and opportunities she's gotten access to as a result of her proficiency in Arabic #SaveWVU #StopTheCuts

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

1 year

What if--and hear us out now--what if there was a giant institution filled with PhDs and other professionals with extensive experience in higher education who could investigate the budget situation and propose effective solutions that would serve the mission of a university? 🤔

West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy

@WVCBP

1 year

ICYMI: WVU facing $45 million budget shortfall. "Critics say higher-ed spending has dropped 26% over the past decade, and they say deep income tax cuts this year did not help."

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

2 years

YOU have the right to organize at WVU. If you want to learn more about us and organizing at WVU, fill out this general interest form. Let's talk!

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West Virginia Campus Workers

@WVCampusWorkers

1 year

Important highlight from the WVUFacts report: Since 2020, WVU admin has hired outside consultants (one of which was paid $1 million for its services) to gather and analyze data about WVU in order to make strategic decisions about the future of the university.

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