New efforts may be coming to help an underfunded West Virginia State University. It is also one of the nation’s historically black colleges and universities. It is not known if this was done intentionally or was just an oversight, but it’s quite costly. West Virginia State University was recently notified by the federal government that it had been underfunded to the tune of $852 million over the course of thirty years. Most states have only one land-grant university that gets special funding from the nation’s capital. But the Mountain State has two: West Virginia University and West Virginia State University. WVSU gets that designation as a historically Black college.
