Oct. 1, 2009
Student Housing Project Breaks Ground at Mountain State University
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Beckley, WV (HNN) - About 100 people, including Sen. Richard Browning of the W.Va. Senate, Del. Linda Sumner of the W.Va. House of Delegates and the MSU Alumni Advisory Council, and Beckley Mayor Emmett Pugh, gathered at the corner of Grove and Minnesota Avenues on the Beckley campus of Mountain State University on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 to break ground for a $20 million building project that will triple the student housing on campus.
The project was announced last month by Mountain State University and its partner, Campus Housing Solutions. Its first phase, slated for completion by fall 2010, will make available private rooms and apartment-style suites for about 200 students.
Mountain State University President and CEO Charles H. Polk cited continuing growth on the university’s main campus in Beckley as spurring the need for the project. While many of the school’s 8,700 students a year attend one of MSU’s branch campuses — located in Martinsburg, W.Va., as well as Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Washington, D.C. — or study online or through other forms of distance learning, more than a third attend classes on the Beckley campus. These students include international students and those from across the United States, with most coming from West Virginia as well as Virginia, Kentucky, and eastern Ohio.
“MSU’s growth overall is important to West Virginia,” said Polk, “but we have a particular commitment to Beckley as our original home. The presence of additional students living on campus will play an important role in ensuring the economic health of downtown Beckley, as well as the diversity and culture of the community.”
Mountain State University is the third largest higher education institution in West Virginia and largest among private institutions. Recently, the institution received permission to offer its first doctoral program, in executive leadership, as well as a master’s degree in psychology.
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Student Housing Project Breaks Ground at Mountain State University
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Beckley, WV (HNN) - About 100 people, including Sen. Richard Browning of the W.Va. Senate, Del. Linda Sumner of the W.Va. House of Delegates and the MSU Alumni Advisory Council, and Beckley Mayor Emmett Pugh, gathered at the corner of Grove and Minnesota Avenues on the Beckley campus of Mountain State University on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 to break ground for a $20 million building project that will triple the student housing on campus.
The project was announced last month by Mountain State University and its partner, Campus Housing Solutions. Its first phase, slated for completion by fall 2010, will make available private rooms and apartment-style suites for about 200 students.
Mountain State University President and CEO Charles H. Polk cited continuing growth on the university’s main campus in Beckley as spurring the need for the project. While many of the school’s 8,700 students a year attend one of MSU’s branch campuses — located in Martinsburg, W.Va., as well as Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Washington, D.C. — or study online or through other forms of distance learning, more than a third attend classes on the Beckley campus. These students include international students and those from across the United States, with most coming from West Virginia as well as Virginia, Kentucky, and eastern Ohio.
“MSU’s growth overall is important to West Virginia,” said Polk, “but we have a particular commitment to Beckley as our original home. The presence of additional students living on campus will play an important role in ensuring the economic health of downtown Beckley, as well as the diversity and culture of the community.”
Mountain State University is the third largest higher education institution in West Virginia and largest among private institutions. Recently, the institution received permission to offer its first doctoral program, in executive leadership, as well as a master’s degree in psychology.
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