West Virginia Wesleyan enters agreement

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West Virginia Wesleyan School Interim President Dr. James Moore and Kelly Gentle, principal of Notre Dame Excessive Faculty, formalized an settlement between the 2 colleges to forge a inventive and performing arts partnership.

BUCKHANNON — West Virginia Wesleyan School and Notre Dame Excessive Faculty have signed a proper settlement to start a inventive and performing arts partnership between the establishments.

Below the settlement, WVWC will make use of an teacher to show within the Performing Arts Conservatory at Notre Dame Excessive Faculty. 2022 WVWC graduate Pippa McGinley will facilitate Notre Dame’s “Shamrocks” Present Choir program and help college students in preparation for musical theater and thespian performances and competitions.

West Virginia Wesleyan School may even present efficiency area for as much as three NDHS productions within the Virginia Thomas Legislation Heart for the Performing Arts yearly. Notre Dame college students can be eligible for distinctive scholarship alternatives via WVWC and can work together usually with Wesleyan college and workers members to be taught extra in regards to the arts, faculty software processes, and monetary help.

There can be extra alternatives for the 2 entities to associate sooner or later with hopeful tasks together with twin credit score and faculty credit score programs, performances with West Virginia Wesleyan ensembles, and humanities camps and intensives held on the residential campus.

Dr. James Moore, interim President, mentioned, “West Virginia Wesleyan School is thrilled to associate with Notre Dame Excessive Faculty to additional the reason for their already superb Performing Artwork Conservatory. The standard of all Notre Dame Excessive Faculty college students is well-known to us, and we applaud the lecturers there for his or her deal with the entire scholar, for offering a thoughtfully rigorous atmosphere, and for doing so in such a holistic method. We actually consider that this is step one of many for our two establishments. The sky is the restrict.”

Kelly Gentle, principal at Notre Dame Excessive Faculty, mentioned, “Notre Dame Excessive Faculty is thrilled to forge a partnership with West Virginia Wesleyan School. We’re extremely excited to work with such a prestigious establishment, not just for the expansion of our Performing Arts Conservatory (PAC) program, but in addition for the potential alternatives for all Notre Dame college students. As establishments with shared Christian values and an emphasis on educational rigor, we consider WVWC is a good match for our college-bound college students and stay up for working with WVWC to point out all of them the school has to supply.”

West Virginia Wesleyan School is a non-public, four-year residential liberal arts faculty in Buckhannon, and has been residence to 14 Fulbright Students. The Princeton Overview ranked Wesleyan considered one of its 2023 Greatest Faculties within the Southeastern Area of america. U.S. Information & World Report’s 2022-2023 Greatest School Rankings designated Wesleyan seventh in Greatest Worth — Regional Universities (South).

Notre Dame Excessive Faculty is an educational, secondary college, which has had 15 AP Students, 7 WVSSAC State Tutorial Achievement and Group Service Award winners, in addition to Bucklew and Basis Scholarship recipients.