Spring Semester 2011

Welcome to 2011
Students are back in the dorm, winter is upon is and seems to be worse than last year. Snow is flying almost every day and the students and the staff are dealing with it.

My goal this semester is to impress the students with some cold facts that are facing this generation. By the time this class graduates we will be approaching the projected end of the recession.  The need for higher education is greater now than anytime in our nations history. These sharp minds of tomorrow have to find a way to complete there education here at WVU. This acceptable graduation rate of 51- 52 % is not acceptable any more.

By the year 2018 sixty three percent of all new jobs will require higher education degrees. For the first time in history if these young minds want to stay in the middle class they are going to have to work for it.

We grow older and they just stay the same age.

I have lived in Morgantown for almost twenty years now and the most amazing aspect is that students do not get older. I mean they do not get older, they are all still 18 to 22 years old
I get self reflective a couple times each year and as my birthday approaches I feel older this year. Most years I do not feel my age, but this year I have more aches and pains than before.