Huggins daughter...holy hell
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No it isn't. Take a look at some of the accomplishments and awards over the years along with the R1 institution rating. You don't get all that from being "trashy." You're the one who is trash and your own people bash you incessantly here.
I talk down on WVU mainly to take the piss out of your fans. I was on faculty at WVU Med School for 8 years. I will say this about WVU medicine, the students from there were competitive anywhere in the country for the residency match. The USMLE test scores were really good when benchmarked nationally.
Mike Garrison caused a lot of harm to the med school when he pushed out John Prescott as Dean. That whole fiasco draws a lot of the bad reaction when academics come up. That whole mess was pretty unprecedented. They lost quality faculty members from that. I was one of them.
Yep...deflect away.
WVU awarded a senator's daughter a free degree. The daughter then became CEO of a company that gouged patients, many children btw, with a price increase of 500%.
You hoopies sure do have the lame excuses for your lack of academic integrity and poor performance for decades. It will continue and get worse, if that's possible.
Sorry to hear that. What was the reason Garrison did that? BTW, he should never have been appointed president in the first place.
Yeah, but I mean come on, it was only ONE degree.
Now if they had given her TWO completely unearned degrees, well, I think we can all agree that would be beyond the pale. But just one? That's no more than a summary offense-type violation.
No doubt there are others that have not been revealed, it's who they are just look at the well known lack of standards that the institution tolerates with fans at their home games.
Yeah. Hills. I wouldn't underestimate that. Look at Nebraska. Their population is nearly the same as ours but they have two cities of, I think around 200,000 to 250,000 or maybe a little less. They don't have hills and if they do, you have to look real hard to find them.
Wait, so your shining exemplar of academic is Nebraska? If we got a big giant bulldozer and flattened your whole state down you could become Nebraska? And you'd be OK with that?
Wow. Just, wow.
I don't know what the heck you're talking about. I was talking about the state in an affected way. The hills hurt as far as population goes. It definitely holds us back in certain areas. Where you got the education analogy is beyond me.
So your shining example of a state you'd like to emulate, rather than an education institution you'd like to emulate, is NEBRASKA?
And you think that's making you look less like an idiot?
What the hell are you talking about? I'm comparing population and the reasons within. They have two cities with large populations versus WVa with a city that's barely above 50,000. That's it. Why do you think that is? Trying to emulate Nebraska? I don't know where you're getting this from. You have a problem with comprehension?
Here is your direct quote:
"WVU and its people care as much about academics as any other school but but you don't just snap your fingers and become top 100. Too much has to change for WVU to drastically change academically, like more population and less freakin hills."
The problem here isn't the person thinking that you tied hills to academics, but it is entirely possible that the person with the West Virginia education has no idea how to correctly express the point that you are trying to make.
You quite literally said that one of the things that has to change for WVU to become a better academic school if for there to be "less freakin hills". YOU said that. Not me. Not anyone else. YOU.
Yes, but in a very roundabout way. Like more population, more choices and a tighter acceptance rate. That's what I meant. Not just less hills means better academics. But it would equate to more affluence. West Virginia has Mercedes Benz and million dollar homes too. Just not as many as larger populated states that have more people to choose from. That's a big problem in WVa and yes, too many freakin hills hurts our possible state's expansion. I read a factoid once that said if WVa was flattened, it'd be the size of Texas. That's how many god*amn hills we have.
In the short-term, WVU should do what PSU does and filter the lesser qualified kids to their branch campuses. Cut the freshman and sophomore enrollments down and make it tougher to get in to Morgantown
Ummmm......you ever been to Western PA? Not exactly the plains here. It does hurt Pittsburgh when they were in the running for Amazon's HQ. It costs more to build here. Oh and we have all of these rivers that need to be crossed. We have the same issue. The saying in driving around Pittsburgh is "you can't there from here".
LOL! Let him keep it up, Paco. It's really funny stuff!!! He's very entertaining. Every post he makes has me laughing so hard and spitting out my Gatorade.
Except for the $3-4 million in annual student fees right?
and the $5.5 million in institutional aid right?
and the TIF funding they receive from the county and state on their $25million baseball stadium right?
WV is third from the bottom in teacher salaries.
Pretty much shows how much they value education in the HIllJack state.
You get what you pay for, and it certainly indicates how education is prioritized down yonder.
Generally, you get what you pay for.
Pretty much shows how much they value education in the HIllJack state.
You get what you pay for, and it certainly indicates how education is prioritized down yonder.
Generally, you get what you pay for.
He should look up Cal's campus. That view on a clear day is not possible if it were flat.
This loser will continue to make up excuses as to why WV is not respected academically or why they get the bad rap they get. Whatever he says, take it with a grain of salt as it's all lies. These hilljacks need a dose of reality. They are totally delusional about what their state and their schools are.
Yes, and we have 2 highly respected and esteemed universities within Oakland, literally right across the street from each other. Both are quite a bit higher ranked than pathetic wvu, and there are hills everywhere.
That was a funny line, though. Trying to give the hills excuse for WV's poor performance academically. LOL!!!!
WVU has a four year grad rate of 36% and a six year grad rate of under 60%, which is, well... speaks for itself. Their admission standards are, politely stated, generous, yet enrollment is plummeting and they have a $45m budget deficit and are cutting programs and staff. It has also been steadily declining in NSF ranking of research expenditures.
The school, frankly, is a mismanaged mess. There is absolutely a reason it ranks so low in so many ranking methodologies.
A classic article from WVU's own student newspaper: https://www.thedaonline.com/column-...cle_dc4faf9d-6f72-58bf-936c-396af26d5a60.html
The school, frankly, is a mismanaged mess. There is absolutely a reason it ranks so low in so many ranking methodologies.
A classic article from WVU's own student newspaper: https://www.thedaonline.com/column-...cle_dc4faf9d-6f72-58bf-936c-396af26d5a60.html
Yeah, but to be fair all he's saying is that all the hills and the rivers are the reason the the Pittsburgh metropolitan area never grew much larger than 50,000 people, just like happened in West Virginia.
And really, who can argue with that?
He even had this quote, in an article from 2011:
"the University is setting them up for failure, taking their college loan money they probably shouldn't be taking out in the first place and then feigning shock when so many of them burn out in this environment."
It was so obvious to even a Hoopie 12 years ago, and yet some people still haven't figured it out.
I know more than a few students that couldn't cut it at CCAC and ended up at wvu, because they admit everyone and their so-called academics are not exactly demanding, to be polite.
