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Latest Fact-Checks On E. Gordon Gee

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E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on August 25, 2023 an interview with The Daily Athenaeum:
“Fewer than 2% of students are impacted whatsoever by the decisions we're making” to cut the budget.
Mostly False
By Griff Bihun • October 10, 2023
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on August 18, 2023 an interview with the Daily Athenaeum:
Foreign languages are “not a high priority” nationally
Half-True
By Derek Nastasi • October 6, 2023
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on June 21, 2019 a speech:
"In West Virginia, we have 20,000 jobs in which we don’t have skilled workers."
Half-True
By Steven Murphy, Victoria Gennuso • December 6, 2019
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on March 19, 2019 a speech:
"Our state has fewer science, technology, engineering and math graduates than any neighboring state."
True
By Al Bernardi, Samantha Patrick • April 24, 2019
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on January 14, 2019 an op-ed:
West Virginia has "the nation’s lowest workforce participation rate, which hovers around 50 percent, when the national average is about 63 percent."
True
By Erica Anderson, Molly DeCarli • February 27, 2019
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on September 20, 2018 an interview with the Daily Athenaeum:
In public approval, "the press is rated right now below that of Congress, and that is very low; it’s in the single digits."
False
By Mary Alice Truitt • October 29, 2018
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on February 12, 2018 a letter to the university community:
West Virginia University’s incoming freshman class has the "highest-ever GPA"
Mostly True
By Davis Versprille, Zack Schwehm • September 28, 2018
E. Gordon Gee
E. Gordon Gee
stated on October 4, 2011 a comment to a reporter:
"We are the poster child for compliance, and whenever we discover possible infractions we resolve and report it to the NCAA no matter how minor the violations."
Half-True
By Aaron Marshall • October 31, 2011