Webcasts
Experience the sights and sounds of the inauguration of West Virginia University’s 22nd president, Mike Garrison.
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View webcasts of the following inaugural activities:
Monday, Oct. 15- 10:30 a.m., “Coming Home” Gathering—Students, faculty, staff, alumni and parents will take part in a discussion in the Mountainlair’s Vandalia Lounge. Participants will celebrate WVU as their home and how individuals serve the state and each other through the University. The event will include a presentation of selected poems and short prose pieces written on these themes by WVU students in a writing contest organized by professor James Harms of the WVU Department of English.
- 6 p.m., “Why I Teach…” – Faculty, Staff and Student Forum—Garrison, along with some of the University’s top professors, staffers and student-researchers, will discuss what motivates them in the classrooms and laboratories of the state’s flagship University. The event takes place at Blaney House, home of the WVU president.
- 8 a.m., Military Appreciation Breakfast—WVU will recognize the contributions of veterans, and guests will preview photojournalist Joel Beeson’s documentary on black World War II veterans from West Virginia. The event in the Mountainlair ballrooms will feature a joint WVU Army and Air Force ROTC color guard in addition to a narration and table with symbolic items remembering prisoners of war and those missing in action.
- 11:30 a.m., Women of Color Luncheon—This annual Diversity Week tradition will feature speaker Sarah Culberson, a WVU alumna. When she went looking for her birth father three years ago, the journey took her to a small village in Sierra Leone, West Africa. That is where her father works as a school headmaster and where she found out she was an African princess. Culberson is now executive director of Kposowa Foundation, an organization established to help rebuild her war-torn native country of Sierra Leone. She will share her story during Wednesday’s luncheon in the Mountainlair ballrooms.
- 4 p.m., Alums in the Classroom: “How WVU Changed My Life”—Alumni are coming home to share their success stories with current students. They will visit Garrison’s political science class and share their stories of how WVU changed their lives.
- Speakers include Capt. Lee Ann Campbell, who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom II and also supported Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts; Stacy Humphreys, a park ranger/historian at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park; Bill McCartney, an energy trader for Vitol Inc., an industry leader in the global energy market; Carrie Webster, D-Kanawha, house judiciary chair; and Sarah Culberson, whose career includes acting and dancing. Culberson discovered that she was an African princess while looking for her birth parents. She is now executive director of Kposowa Foundation, an organization established to help rebuild her war-torn native country of Sierra Leone, West Africa.
- 1 p.m., Inauguration Ceremony—Faculty, staff, students, parents, alumni and others are invited to take part in the inauguration of Garrison in Woodburn Circle.