Governor Patrick Morrisey (center) -raversed by DEL. Pat McGehan, R-Hancock (left) and Sen. Laura Wakim Chapman R-Ohio, (right) at the Chester Volunteer Fire Department in Chester, W.VA. Virginia Office by Governor Patrick Morrisey | With kind permission)
Governor Patrick Morrisey was behind a sign with the inscription “Education not indoctrination” and on Thursday celebrated a draft law that he says that he “reinforced civil values” by bringing a new learning center on the campus of West Virginia University.
For Morrisey, legislation is part of its priority to combat what he says is the “Woke Agenda”. The Republican governor already forbidden diversity initiatives In the state government and as a result, WVU closed its division of diversity, justice and inclusion and opened a new office.
House bill 3297,, Mandate adopted by the legislature led by GOP in April that the WVU operates the “Washington Center for Civics, Culture and State Art”, which is focused on teaching constitutional studies and “great debates in western civilization”. It will also be the “fact -based Instructions for the foundation of America, ”said the governor.
“We have to make sure that the students learn how to think, not what to think,” said Morrisey.
According to the invoice, Morrisey can select his first director. He must make this decision in consultation with the Senate and the WVU governor.
“Unfortunately, many of our schools and university institutions have transformed in indoctrination factories for radical, anti -American thinking. This cannot happen in West Virginia,” he said.
Del. Pat McGehan, R-Hancock, sponsored the legislation of the Washington Center.
“I just want something to be established … to enable an option for students who participate in university education … to study all of these different topics under their humanities while they have traditionally been taught,” he said at the press conference.
Together with a director, the law requires that the university must have five additional faculties in the center, which is done according to the WVU Eliminate around 300 faculties and personnel jobs for financial reasons.
The Washington Center can apply existing faculties and courses to meet the requirements of the law on government lessons. The measure says that it should drive the “understanding of American constitutional thinking and institutions”.
Shauna Johnson, wvus Executive Director of Strategic Communicationssaid the university is looking forward to building on its programs and the long history of state lessons.
“While our nation is preparing to celebrate their 250TH The West Virginia University is looking forward to building up its programs and the long history of the state lessons next year, ”she wrote in a statement.
Democratic legislators in the House of Delegates and Senate who represented Morgantown voted against the legislation and cited concerns about the government mandates for a university and a political representative, the academic monitored.
Del. John Williams, D-Monongalia, told House members During the Bill debate that he Bewells who wants to finance the school if the state is not.
“Who will want to pay to have a say in how we raise the next generation?” he asked.
The senators have changed the legislative template to request that the Washington Center’s curriculum are approved by the Governor Council of the WVU. They also added in a language that had banned the legislator during or up to two years after the end of their service in legislation to act by the director of the center or to be employed in any way.
While the legislation initially did not come with funds for the director and the faculty of the center, the Final budget calculation Contained 1.5 million US dollars for the WVU, which can be used in the center.
Johnson did not answer a question from West Virginia whether additional university funds would be necessary to get the center up and running.
The legislation comes into force on July 11th.
“We appreciate the governor and the legislator for the fact that he recorded 1.5 million US dollars in the household house in 2026 to support the creation and operation of the Washington Center,” wrote Johnson. “Further details will be available at a later date.”
McGehan was involved at the beginning of this year A controversial step From West Virginia Water Development Authority Give $ 5 million to a Catholic career based in Ohio and a professional college to create a right -wing thought factory. The Parkersburg News and Sentinel reported that McGehan helped the college of St. Joseph, the worker, to apply for WDA funds.
The water development authority, the The decision made without a necessary recommendation by one of three state officials, said the Deal is constitutional because it will serve a non -religious economic purpose of the apprenticeship.
The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia laminated The water development authority preventing the money in Ohio, and a judge recently decided that the lawsuit can go forward in court.
