{"id":7,"date":"2018-01-04T19:30:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T00:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aedswv\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2021-10-11T12:51:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T16:51:46","slug":"about-the-alliance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aedswv\/about-the-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><b>Overview:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Alliance for the Economic Development of Southern West Virginia is a collaboration between the 11 higher education institutions in Southern West Virginia. The Alliance will focus on fostering an environment for economic growth. We have the talent, expertise and resources needed to solve our\u00a0 own challenges and through the Alliance, and we will pool our resources and knowledge to build a stronger southern West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-253 alignnone\" style=\"margin: 0.5em 1em 0.5em 0px;height: 603px;text-align: left;color: #333333;text-transform: none;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;;text-decoration: none;max-width: 100%;float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aedswv\/files\/2020\/06\/AllianceMap-High-Res.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"740\" \/><b><\/b><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Part<\/b><b>icipating Institutions: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Bluefield State College<\/p>\n<p>BridgeValley Community and Technical College<\/p>\n<p>Concord University<\/p>\n<p>Marshall University<\/p>\n<p>Mountwest Community &amp; Technical College<\/p>\n<p>New River Community and Technical College<\/p>\n<p>University of Charleston<\/p>\n<p>Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia State University<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia University Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geographic Area:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Alliance is focused on a 21-county area:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boone<\/li>\n<li>Cabell<\/li>\n<li>Clay<\/li>\n<li>Fayette<\/li>\n<li>Greenbrier<\/li>\n<li>Kanawha<\/li>\n<li>Lincoln<\/li>\n<li>Logan<\/li>\n<li>Mason<\/li>\n<li>McDowell<\/li>\n<li>Mercer<\/li>\n<li>Mingo<\/li>\n<li>Monroe<\/li>\n<li>Nicholas<\/li>\n<li>Pocahontas<\/li>\n<li>Putnam<\/li>\n<li>Raleigh<\/li>\n<li>Summers<\/li>\n<li>Wayne<\/li>\n<li>Webster<\/li>\n<li>Wyoming<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Our Goal:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Alliance\u2019s main aim is to learn about all of our existing resources, in regards to education services, workforce training, the talent pool, all available business sites, and the willing partners in southern West Virginia and to promote and utilize these resources in a meaningful way that creates jobs, enhances our businesses sector and competitive edge, ensures our workers have access to the latest training and technology, builds long-lasting partnerships and ultimately revitalizes our small southern communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Four Working Groups:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prevention, Addiction, Recovery and Reentry<\/li>\n<li>Tourism<\/li>\n<li>Entrepreneurship<\/li>\n<li>Workforce Development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview: The Alliance for the Economic Development of Southern West Virginia is a collaboration between the 11 higher education institutions in Southern West Virginia. The Alliance will focus on fostering an environment for economic growth. We have the talent, expertise and resources needed to solve our\u00a0 own challenges and through the Alliance, and we will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aedswv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aedswv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aedswv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aedswv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aedswv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aedswv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aedswv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/aedswv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}