Originally posted by ohio herd:
Law School.
WVU is N E V E R going to let us have a law school.
The way to do law is via the backdoor. If you look at Bar admissions in WV, about 1/3rd went to WVU; about 1/3rd went to places clearly better; and about 1/3rd went to places which are private schools operated at a profit for people that did not get into their state's public colleges.
And the key word here is "at a profit". In the modern, book free, computer age there is little more to law school than a dozen and a half over-paid profs and a few classrooms. There is money in it.
So make a deal with some private group, such as
http://www.infilaw.com/ and start a "Marshall College of the Law". No actual control by the state, no in-state tuition, and thus no role for WVU to say a darn thing about it. Build next to campus. Make a deal like the Via chain of osteopathic schools have (Via has campuses next to Virginia Tech, Wofford, and Auburn, and has a deal where students are treated as if they are students of the host college for athletic tickets, campus facilities, and such, use their school colors, and domain name and so on, in return for paying the associated fees as a part of the tuition). Students would be de facto MU students, but de jure Marshall College of the Law students.
We end up with a generation of lawyers who went to "Marshall" and consider MU their law alma mater, and break the WVU monopoly.
If we do not do this, Harvey High (which is fast returning to its historical role as college for those not smart enough to go to college) will start a law school. And that will be bad for MU, and bad for the practice of law.