WVU Tech sees 4 percent decline in applications for next year: Officials trying to reassure parents of students who applied

DAILY MAIL STAFF

As controversy has swirled about WVU Tech during the past severalweeks, applications have fallen off pace with last year, a universityofficial said today.

By this time last year, the college had received 507 applicationsfrom incoming freshman. This year, the college has received 489, a 4percent drop.

The drop comes after Gov. Joe Manchin's highly publicized backofffrom a proposal to move the college's flagship engineering programfrom the main campus in Montgomery to the Dow Tech Center in SouthCharleston.

Since then, the legislature has been debating whether the collegeshould become an even more integrated unit of West …