Coastal Carolina President Michael Benson will leave that position for the top job at West Virginia University in July. WVU announced Benson's hiring Feb. 24.

Now-former Coastal Carolina University President Michael T. Benson said he’s “honored” to become West Virginia University’s 27th president, according to a news release sent Monday. Following contract negotiations with the WVU Board of Governors on Thursday,

Benson currently serves as the president for Coastal Carolina University. “I am honored to be named president of West Virginia University — one of our nation’s oldest land-g

Delan Stevens said.Benson would replace E. Gordon Gee, the Morgantown school’s longest-serving president who announced during a budget crisis in August 2023 that he would retire when his contract expires in June 2025.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Coastal Carolina University President Michael Benson will be the next president at West Virginia University, sources tell MetroNews reporter Hoppy Kercheval. “He was one of the 10 finalists and then it got down to three and then after a lot of debate and discuss the Board of Governors focused in on Benson,” Kercheval said.

West Virginia University has decided on a new leader to replace Gordon Gee, who announced he would retire at the conclusion of his contract.Michael Benson, the

Coastal Carolina University President Michael Benson has been extended an offer to become West Virginia University’s next president, where he would be tasked with reversing decade-long declining […]

Coastal Carolina University President Michael Benson has been extended an offer to become West Virginia University’s next president, where he would be tasked with reversing decade-long declining enrollment at the state’s flagship university.

West Virginia University, located just over an hour south of Pittsburgh in Morgantown, West Virginia, has named its next president.