West Virginia Code Chapter 18B. Higher Education § 18B-3C-9. Increasing flexibility for community and technical colleges

(A) To that end, the freestanding community and technical colleges may employ faculty for an indefinite period without a grant of tenure and shall work toward a staffing goal of no more than twenty percent of the faculty holding tenure or being tenure-track employees. Tenured faculty employed by the freestanding community and technical colleges before the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine, are not affected by this provision.

(B) All community and technical colleges, other than those set forth in paragraph (A) of this subdivision, may employ faculty for an indefinite period without a grant of tenure. The immediate goal is to use this provision as a tool to assist the community and technical colleges in meeting the essential conditions provided for in section three of this article and in gaining independent accreditation status. The ultimate goal is to provide the flexibility community and technical colleges need to meet the needs of the state by working toward having no more than twenty percent of the core faculty holding tenure or being tenure-track employees. Tenured faculty employed by community and technical colleges other than freestanding community and technical colleges on the thirtieth day of June, two thousand, may not be affected by this provision. Tenure may not be denied to a faculty member solely as a result of change in employing institution necessitated by the change to independently accredited community and technical colleges.