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		<title>Literacy Academy to be Held June 17-21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For one week, West Virginia Wesleyan College Education faculty will offer teachers professional development in the new literacy standards. Sessions will focus on an in depth investigation of the Common Core State Standards (WV Next Generation Standards), instructional shifts and practical literacy planning, and practices that align with these newly adopted standards. At the end [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wvwc.edu/news/2013/05/literacy-academy-to-be-held-june-17-21/</link>
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		<title>Hank Ellis Bobcat Open Golf Classic Set for June 24</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now is the chance to become an active supporter for student-athletes and their futures.  The Hank Ellis Bobcat Open Golf Classic, sponsored by West Virginia Wesleyan College, is set for Monday, June 24 at The Stonewall Resort.  Registration is noon-12:30 p.m. with shotgun start to immediately follow.  This event will benefit the College’s athletic department. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wvwc.edu/news/2013/05/hank-ellis-bobcat-open-golf-classic-set-for-june-24/</link>
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		<title>Recent Grad Joins Teach For America Corps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Laura File, a 2013 graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College, was accepted into Teach For America.  File, a history and religious studies major from Beckley, WV, will begin teaching middle school math in Philadelphia this fall.  She joins Teach For America’s 24th incoming corps. Teach for America is comprised of recent college graduates and professions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wvwc.edu/news/2013/05/recent-grad-joins-teach-for-america-corps/</link>
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		<title>2013 Outstanding Seniors Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[West Virginia Wesleyan College recognized seniors Laura File, Justin Frye, Molly Full, Gabrielle LaFata, Kimberly Stephens, and Nathan Weaver as its 2013 Outstanding Seniors during the Academic and Leadership Awards Convocation and Banquet, held on April 20, 2013. The six were nominated by Wesleyan faculty and staff and chosen based upon academic performance and significant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Virginia Wesleyan Receives Second $50,000 Gift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[West Virginia Wesleyan College has received a second $50,000 gift from Wade F. Sperry ’69 for a scholarship in memory of his brother, Walter C. Sperry. The Sperry Scholarship, established earlier this year, will be awarded annually to one or more Wesleyan students with a preference given to students with physical or learning disabilities. “We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wvwc.edu/news/2013/05/west-virginia-wesleyan-receives-second-50000-gift/</link>
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		<title>Enactus to Hold Fundraisers for National Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[West Virginia Wesleyan College’s Enactus, formerly Students in Free Enterprise, will be holding a pancake breakfast at C.J. Maggie’s in Buckhannon, WV, from 8-10am on Saturday, May 11.  The cost for the breakfast is $5 a plate. This fundraiser is to help deflect the cost of the team’s participation in the National Competition in Kansas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wvwc.edu/news/2013/05/enactus-to-hold-fundraisers-for-national-competition/</link>
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		<title>DO IT Mentoring Program Leads Food Drive at B-UMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[West Virginia Wesleyan College and the Buckhannon-Upshur Middle School (B-UMS) teamed up this semester to kick off a new mentoring program, DO IT (Decisions &#38; Opportunities Impact Tomorrow). This program allows Wesleyan students to serve as mentors for “at-risk” middle school students. Recently, the DO IT Program received grant money from Youth Service America to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wvwc.edu/news/2013/05/do-it-mentoring-program-leads-food-drive-at-b-ums/</link>
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		<title>Student Attends Clinton Global Initiative University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[West Virginia Wesleyan College’s student Rich Sutphin, a senior biology major from Seth, WV, attended the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), a conference that is hosted by the Clinton Global Initiative for university students around the world in April at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.  Each attendee must apply with a commitment to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wvwc.edu/news/2013/05/student-attends-clinton-global-initiative-university/</link>
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		<title>NASA Board Member Visits Department of Physics and Engineering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anne Barth visited West Virginia Wesleyan College’s Department of Physics and Engineering on April 17. Barth is Executive Director of TechConnect West Virginia, a statewide economic development organization dedicated to promoting innovation-based business and entrepreneurial activities. She serves on Wesleyan’s Board of Trustees and on the Board of the NASA WV Space Grant Consortium. Barth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wvwc.edu/news/2013/04/nasa-board-member-visits-department-of-physics-and-engineering/</link>
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		<title>Five Inducted into Pi Gamma Mu Chapter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five new members were recently inducted into the Chapter of Pi Gamma Mu, International Honor Society in Social Science, at West Virginia Wesleyan College. New members include Cassie Cline, a senior psychology major from Parkersburg, WV; Stacy Karickhoff, a junior psychology major from Buckhannon, WV; Tyler McWhorter, a junior environmental studies and economic major from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wvwc.edu/news/2013/04/five-inducted-into-pi-gamma-mu-chapter/</link>
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