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Create WV Releases Report on WVU Stakeholder Concerns
Non-profit seeks dialogue with WVU Leaders READ THE REPORT – Visioning for a Future WVU: A Preliminary Report on Community-driven Transformation CHARLESTON, W.Va. – After conducting a series of in-person meetings and an online survey, Create West Virginia (CWV) is asking West Virginia University and its Board of Governors to listen to alumni and other…
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Visioning Sessions Participants Say Programming Cuts Seen As Bad For WVU, State’s Future
Excerpt from Staff Writer, Eric Ayres – Aug 31, 2023 Del Shawn Fluharty, Minority Whip of the West Virginia House of Delegates, said the state legislature flatlined funding to WVU in recent years, which has also contributed to the problem as much as the falling enrollment. “Quite frankly, if we would look at the numbers that…
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WVU alumni and stakeholders share thoughts on recent proposals, vision for school’s future
Excerpts from Jarett Lewis – Aug 29, 2023 “We’ve been trying to aggregate together all the information that students and faculty have been piecing together,” Create WV Executive, Corey Zinn said. “We will use all this input from alumni and stakeholders at WVU and community members.” Zinn said the goal for these discussions is to showcase…
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Create West Virginia hosts meetings on WVU’s future
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Monday, August 28, 2023CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Create West Virginia, a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating West Virginia’s innovation economy, will host a series of meetings for West Virginia University alumni and stakeholders to meet and share their ideas and visions for a WVU of the future. The series of meetings, titled…
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Startup Alert: GoBackz
Struggle to find time to return packages? A WV entrepreneur and his team built an app to pay contractors to pick up your returns from your door for you. Works similarly to food delivery apps where users may become drivers to earn cash returning everyone’s packages. Just released and hit the mobile app stores, so…
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Kanawha County Public Library Unveils IDEA Maker Lab
Kanawha County Public Library unveils their IDEA Maker Lab, FREE for any library card owner in good standing!!!
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Announcing the Create WV Discord Server!
West Virginians are creative. We are also distant. It’s in our topography, and it was built into our economic system. There is a reason we earned the title: “Socially Distant Since 1863” Create WV has put all the energy and community you know and love from our conferences over years past into a virtual space…
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WVU Forward finalizes a blueprint for economic growth
Overview The West Virginia Forward collaborative is a pioneering initiative, jointly executed by West Virginia University (WVU) and the State of West Virginia. With a focus on diversifying and fortifying West Virginia’s economy, this report is not just an analysis but a blueprint for the State’s economic evolution. About the WVU Forward Collaborative West Virginia…
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Richwood Helios Park from WVPublic with Rebecca Kimmons
“We think Richwood can have another life, and that’s what this park is all about,” Kimmons explained, “That’s why it’s so exciting. People in West Virginia tend to look back, and they remember when times were wonderful and times were good, and now they’re uncertain like so many of us about what the future’s gonna…
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TippEd(ucation)
Public K-12 education “tipped” this legislative session, an “idea has crossed a threshold, started to tip and begun to spread.” Many of you recognize this reference to Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point and how it applies to what we have been discussing. The idea that reached a boiling point this spring was that for all of…