WVU to cut spending $45M by 2020 - Laura Haight , Charleston Gazette-Mail

West Virginia University must reduce spending by $45 million by 2020 to survive and thrive in the state’s economy, university President E. Gordon Gee announced Monday in his State of the University address. “This is not a problem, this is an opportunity,” Gee said. WVU lost $30 million of its base budget in recent years, with only 14 percent of the budget coming from state funds now. During Gee’s first WVU presidency, from 1981-85, the state funding for the university was between 60 percent and 70 percent, he said. http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-education/20161010/gee-wvu-to-cut-spending-45m-by-2020