WV Grantmakers Appoint New Board Member

The board of directors of the West Virginia Grantmakers Association is pleased to announce the appointment of Becky Cain Ceperley as the newest member of its board of directors. “We are honored to welcome Becky to the WV Grantmakers Board of Directors.  Her expertise and commitment to philanthropy, public policy, community leadership, and civic engagement…

WVU School of Journalism Offering Online Professional Development Courses this Fall

The P.I. Reed School of Journalism’s online graduate program in Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) will offer a series of four online professional development courses this fall to help communicators brush up on the best practices in today’s changing media environment. “The Importance of Web Analytics and Search Engine Marketing” will be offered Sept. 9 – Oct.…

WVU School of Journalism’s Online IMC Graduate Program Celebrates 10 Years of Innovation, Growth

This year, the West Virginia University P.I. Reed School of Journalism’s online master’s program in integrated marketing communications (IMC) is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The first online IMC program in the nation, the WVU IMC program has seen significant growth and continued innovation throughout the last 10 years. The WVU IMC graduate program began in…

WV Social Media Celebrates Three Tears in Business

August 2010, Kristin Meeks embarked on a new journey that of which took her out of the familiarity of higher education and into the new territory of social media marketing. With a business that started out part-time for a local restoration company New Way Carpet Cleaning and Crawl Space Solutions quickly turned into servicing 100’s…

The Graduate Health Informatics Program at Marshall is One of Three Accredited in U.S.

Marshall University’s Master of Science in Health Informatics (MSHI) degree program was awarded national accreditation April 19  from the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management. It is one of three nationally accredited programs in the United States, joining the University of Illinois at Chicago and Oregon Health and Science University in Portland,…

Gala Event to Celebrate State’s Coal Mining Community; Singer-songwriter John Ellison Among Those to be Honored

Miners, community members and others connected with the state’s coal mining industry will gather at Tamarack in Beckley on Thursday, Oct. 3, for the 2013 Miners’ Celebration a gala reception and dinner to celebrate the past, present and future of West Virginia’s coal mining enterprise. According to organizers, the purpose of the annual event is…