FAIRMONT — After a first year filled with growing pains, Fairmont State University hopefully has the central piece it needs to fulfill its vision for Middle College.

The school launched Middle College last year, an ambitious attempt to set 16- and 17-year-old foster students on a path to higher education. The original format for the ambitious program placed high school aged foster kids on the same campus with college kids. KVC West Virginia, Fairmont State University’s foster care partner on the project, managed the residential aspect of the program. Male and female students lived on separate floors at a school dormitory with access controlled by KVC staff members.

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