西弗吉尼亚大学帕克斯堡分校校长 Jackson 获评2026年度创业型校长
西弗吉尼亚大学帕克斯堡分校校长 Torie Jackson 博士11月2日在波士顿举行的全国社区学院创业协会年会上获评2026年度创业型校长，奖项由2025年度获奖者 Michael Baston 博士颁发。Jackson 多年前曾以学生身份走进帕克斯堡分校的教室，她说自己当时是“开始接受教育，并相信自己可以成为比现在更好的人”。
她执掌的学校把创业精神落到实处：俄亥俄谷大学关闭后留下250多英亩的建筑、运动场和空停车场，帕克斯堡分校基金会2023年在 Ross 基金会1000万美元捐赠帮助下购入该地产，现已成为该校创新与技术中心所在地。
今年秋季，该校录得连续第12个学期招生增长，学生人数比一年前增长2%，并在2025年秋季突破3000人、增长9%，而当时西弗吉尼亚州其他社区学院的学生人数普遍下滑。Jackson 2022年5月出任临时校长，2023年5月经全国遴选后转正。
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WVU Parkersburg President Torie Jackson Named 2026 Entrepreneurial President of the Year
Dr. Torie Jackson, president of West Virginia University at Parkersburg in Wood County, West Virginia, was named the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship's 2026 Entrepreneurial President of the Year on November 2 at the association's annual conference in Boston, with the award presented by 2025 honoree Dr. Michael Baston. Years earlier Jackson had first walked the campus as a student, saying she came 'to start my education, and to believe that I could become more than what I already was.'
Her clearest example sits in Vienna, a few miles from the main campus: when Ohio Valley University closed, it left behind more than 250 acres of buildings, athletic fields and empty parking lots. The WVU at Parkersburg Foundation purchased the property in 2023 with help from a $10 million Ross Foundation gift, and it is now home to the college's Innovation and Technology Center.
This fall the college recorded its 12th consecutive semester of enrollment growth, with headcount up 2% from a year earlier; it passed 3,000 students in fall 2025, a 9% jump, while community colleges across West Virginia were losing students. Jackson became interim president in May 2022 and president in May 2023 after a national search.
(Source: WVU Parkersburg)
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图片来源：图：西弗吉尼亚州 Parkersburg 市区与俄亥俄河。Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant) 摄，CC BY-SA 2.5，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Downtown Parkersburg, West Virginia, along the Ohio River. By Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant), CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
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