Amid a pitched battle over budget cuts, West Virginia University President Gordon Gee has defended his efforts to reduce
costs.included several assertions about WVU and Gee. Here, we’ll look into one of the resolution’s statements, that"during his presidency, student enrollments have steadily decreased."WVU data shows that since 2014, the year Gee began his second term as president, enrollment has dropped every year except for a small, one-year bump from 2016 to 2017.
Also, the measure of"student persistence" has seen gains on WVU’s main campus. The available statistics divide the student body into three categories: students who graduate, students who return the following fall, and students who do not return and haven’t graduated. That’s generally accurate. If you count WVU plus its affiliated campuses, total enrollment has fallen every year since Gee began his current term in 2014, except for a slight uptick of less than 1% from 2016 to 2017.
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