David Fleming
It's All Academic   www.davidflemingsite.com   
Reflections from a Mountaineer's Life

Listed here are the various blogs, poems, observations I have ever made about West Virginia University, the foundation of who I am.

March 6, 2011: Forgive a Middle-aged Man and His Memories (especially of Stansbury Hall)

December 28, 2011: The Populations of Two States May Not Want to Read This (reflections on Rich Rodriquez's tenure at Michigan)

October 26, 2012: Inside The Head: Day 39 (a new housing complex at WVU)

August 7, 2013: Is It Just Me? (among other random observations about higher ed, there is a story on party schools)

March 1, 2014: Gee, Whiz (on the need for an E. Gordon Gee musical)

June 5, 2014: Beware the Thundering Heard From West Virginia; or What Is It In The Mountain Air (WVU and Marshall forming a partnership)

July 4, 2014: Restoration (poem in memory of my favorite faculty member)

November 18, 2014: Trashy Poetry (WVU faculty resent having to empty their own trash)

January 27, 2016: Progressive Dinners (part of a series of poems about education in the Fleming household, this one focusing on the diverse WVU faculty that I hung around as a kid)

May 22, 2016: Trail of Years (reflecting upon returning to Morgantown)

June 13, 2019:  Forgive an Even Older Middle-aged Man and His Memories, Part II (reviewing my undergraduate course work)

February 26, 2023: In A Blue Field (poem reflecting upon my not getting a position at Bluefield State)

May 5, 2023: A Mountaineer Stands At the Edge of the Enrollment Cliff (reflecting upon President Gee's mandate for WVU to cut programs)

August 12, 2023: Grades of the Cliff (on the results of WVU's program cutting)