Jan. 27—FAIRMONT — When news reached the administration at Fairmont State University that Alderson Broaddus University would close last fall, President Mike Davis knew the university had to act to help students affected by the closure.
“First time we sat down, we had an idea Alderson Broaddus was going to close about a week before [Higher Education Policy Commission] made their decision,” Davis said. “We couldn’t do anything at that moment, but I said we got to be ready so that when it happens, we can process everything quickly [for students to transfer].”
Davis emphasized keeping transfer students on track so they could graduate in the same amount of time as they would have at Alderson Broaddus, the private Baptist institution in Philippi, West Virginia. Fairmont State compared courses to see which credits it could accept.
According to Davis, the majority of students at AB were athletes. For wrestler Greg Griffith, the closure put him and people he knew into a panic.
“That first day, it’s a lot of stress,” Griffith said. “There was four or five of us that I’m real close with, we had no idea what was going on. We had two weeks to figure out where we’re gonna go to school. We had to find a place to live. I wouldn’t say we were scared, but we were worried about what was gonna happen.”
Griffith, a junior exercise science major from Chapitco, Maryland, applied to every school in the Mountain East Conference and got accepted by all of them. He chose Fairmont State over the others because he already knew people here and wanted to be somewhere without starting from scratch.
The transfer process went smoothly, according to Griffith. He said he was accepted by Fairmont State within a week of applying, and the university gave him and friends who went with him another week to find places to live.
“They did a great job,” Griffith…
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Author : Times West Virginian, Fairmont
Publish date : 2024-01-27 14:47:00
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