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Rhonda Black

Rhonda Black

Director, First-Year Experience; M.A. Educational Leadership

(304) 293-2599

rhonda.black@mail.wvu.edu

215 Student Services Center

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” -Pelé

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Channing Carr

Channing Carr

Academic Program Coordinator

cdc0056@mail.wvu.edu

205 Student Services Building

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

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Jen Ruggieri

Graduate-Teaching Assistant

jgr00005@mail.wvu.edu

215 Student Services Building

“The clear bead at the center changes everything. There are no edges to my loving now.” – Rumi

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Phoebe Gamponia

Graduate-Teaching Assistant

peg00001@mail.wvu.edu

215 Student Services Building

“Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited.” - Ava Duvernay

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Landon Tucker

Graduate-Teaching Assistant

landon.tucker@mail.wvu.edu

215 Student Services Building

“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.” - Albert Camus (“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” - Albert Camus)

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John Michael Mihalek

Graduate-Teaching Assistant

jmm00094@mail.wvu.edu

215 Student Services Building

"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance." ~ Hippocrates

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