Reaching Beyond wvu

We support WVU’s outreach mission as a land-grant institution by offering professional development programs to improve organization's management practices and increase their economic viability. We do this through employee and executive-level training, limited consulting, professional education, and speaking engagements, and we accomplish our goals through seminars, workshops, and conferences. 

The Encova Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship promotes entrepreneurial education, community engagement and economic development for our community and state through K-12 programming, higher education initiatives and business partnerships. 

Since the 1940s, the BBER’s mission has been to serve the people of West Virginia by providing the state’s business and policymaking communities with reliable data and rigorous applied economic research and analysis that enables the state’s leaders to design better business practices and public policies.

Fostering close relationships among academia, business, and government in the United States and China.

Our vision is for West Virginia students, citizens, policymakers, and the business community to understand the roles that the principles and institutions of a free society play in creating widely shared prosperity.

The Center for Financial Literacy and Education was established in 2015 to promote financial literacy throughout the state. The CFLE created a central mechanism for the outreach, programmatic, and research specific initiatives involving financial literacy and education within the college. Our mission is to bring awareness, resources, programs, and support to constituents across the region that will initiate change agents to promote the economic health and prosperity of the citizens of the State of West Virginia.

The College of Business and Economics, mostly through collaborations with the WVU Forensic Science Initiative in the Research Office, has created a range of programs that fill previously unmet needs in the forensic community. They fall under two broad concepts: The business of forensics and the forensics of business.

The West Virginia University John Chambers College of Business and Economics is piloting Data Driven WV in partnership with WesBanco. Thanks to WesBanco and their generous donation, they’re supporting the technology infrastructure and resources to provide our students with the opportunity to apply their data analytic skills.