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Glenville State College (West Virginia) gets green light for university status, approval to offer
Glenville State College (West Virginia) gets green light for university status, approval to offer master’s programs from WVHEPCGLENVILLE, W.Va. (WV News) — The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission has granted the designation of university status for Glenville State College.
The commission at its meeting Friday also approved the implementation of two master's degree programs at GSC: A Master of Arts in Education and a Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction.
The programs were approved by the Higher Learning Commission in November and will mark the first time graduate-level coursework has been offered at Glenville State. Enrollment is expected to begin in the Fall 2022 semester.
Criteria for university status, as set by the Higher Education Policy Commission, include offering at least one master’s-level degree program, having an approved mission statement that provides for offering graduate programs, securing approval of the Higher Learning Commission to offer any master’s degree program and having at least two-thirds of tenured and tenured track faculty hold the terminal degree, typically a doctorate.
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