Glenville State
College
Glenville State College now offers
an energy and land management
concentration as part of its natural
resource management major through
the school’s land resources department.
This concentration is designed for
students interested in working in land use
development, management and planning.
Graduates of this program are able to find
a large number of career opportunities at
the state level and with federal government
agencies, such as the U.S. Department of
Transportation and the Bureau of Land
Management, and will also be prepared
for private industry positions.
In order to better prepare students,
those in the new concentration are now
required to complete two classes in
Geographical Information Systems (GIS),
and a greater emphasis has been put
on deed research in their concentration
capstone course. In utilizing both GIS
and the fundamentals of title abstracting,
students in this program will provide
West Virginia businesses with the
versatility they seek in an employee.
Marshall University
Marshall University is now offering
a bachelor of business administration
degree in entrepreneurship through the
Lewis College of Business.
This interdisciplinary program
incorporates management, finance,
accounting, economics, marketing and
the legal environment. Students benefit
from the entrepreneurship major or
minor through the study of several
disciplines with particular focus on
creativity, innovation, opportunity
recognition, risk management, sourcing
capital and preparing for succession
and/or harvesting opportunities.
Accordingly, students can acquire
the knowledge, skills and experience
necessary to prepare and launch a new
venture, quickly integrate with an existing
enterprise and provide creative and
innovative solutions and contributions
as an entrepreneur or a corporate
intrapreneur. The curriculum focuses
on critical thinking and analytical skills,
communication, leadership, teambuilding,
quantitative and qualitative analysis and
research skills.
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Mountwest
Community &
Technical College Pierpont
Community &
Technical College
Students seeking an associate’s
degree in health care informatics at
Mountwest Community & Technical
College will acquire an education in
both technology and health care to
prepare them for jobs in many different
types of health care environments,
including insurance and pharmacy.
This program’s curriculum
prepares individuals for employment
as specialists in installation, data
management, data archiving/
retrieval, system design and support
and computer training for medical
information systems.
Students graduating with a degree
in health care informatics can find a
variety of job opportunities in this
field, from helping build infrastructures
with the electronic health record to
implementing systems in medical
practices such as billing suites, data
retrieval, data analysis and advanced
training of personnel with the use of
electronic health records. Pierpont Community & Technical
College has introduced a new veterinary
assistant program that requires less on-
the-job training for students and more
easily integrates new employees into a
veterinary hospital environment. This
innovative program provides graduates
with realistic expectations about
working in a veterinary hospital and
reduces employee turnover.
Graduation from the program will allow
students to pursue a career as a veterinary
or laboratory assistant in a veterinary clinic,
hospital, shelter or laboratory.
Students wishing to pursue an
assoc iate’s degree can also apply to the
school’s veterinary technology program.
The veterinary program was ranked a
2017 Top Thirty Program in the U.S. by
VeterinarianEDU.org.
New River
Community and
Technical College West Virginia University Potomac State
College’s four-year sustainable agriculture
entrepreneurship (SAGE) program allows
students to customize their learning
experience to meet the booming local
food and farm-to-table movements.
SAGE provides students with hands-on
experience that extends the growing
seasons with crop production in high
tunnels and greenhouses and taps into
specialty crops, livestock production and
agri-tourism ventures that build unique
and profitable revenue streams to farms
throughout the seasons.
The SAGE program is unique as
it immerses students into the entire
agri-business mindset, providing
the opportunity to physically work
on multiple farming projects while
learning the business model framework
of starting, marketing, operating and
adapting in an agri-business climate.
“SAGE is one of our signature
programs that is designed to explore
the opportunities for financial success
in agriculture for our students, which
in turn supports economic growth in
the region and the state,” says Campus
President Jennifer Orlikoff.
This year, New River Community
and Technical College received funding
for electric distribution engineering
technology (EDET) students to
participate in the state’s Learn and
Earn program through a new co-op/
apprentice program with American
Electric Equipment out of Beckley, WV.
The state-sponsored grant program
gives students in technical degree
programs the opportunity to work as
paid interns at sponsoring companies
while in school.
A certificate in EDET provides
students with the technical skills needed
for careers in the electric, cable and
telephone, construction, subcontracting,
railroad and oil and gas industries.
Students benefit from instructors with
extensive experience in the industry
and are prepared for in-demand, high-
paying careers.
Potomac State
College of WVU