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Rendering of Emory & Henry College's new equestrian center. Image courtesy Emory & Henry College
Feb 21, 2023

Emory & Henry receives $2M gift for equestrian expansion

Emory & Henry College will use a $2 million donation from The Bill Gatton Foundation to help construct a new equestrian center and boost its equine studies program. The private college, based in Emory, announced the donation Monday. The Bristol, Tennessee, foundation’s lead gift for the project was to Emory & Henry’s Collective Connections Campaign, […]

CNU chooses next president, Coast Guard Academy chief
Feb 2, 2023

CNU chooses next president, Coast Guard Academy chief

U.S. Coast Guard Academy Superintendent Rear Adm. William G. Kelly will become Christopher Newport University‘s sixth president on July 1, the Newport News-based public liberal arts school announced Thursday. CNU Chief of Staff Adelia P. Thompson has been serving as interim president since former President Paul S. Trible Jr.’s retirement at the end of the […]

Donald Alexander Jr., a senior at Norfolk State University, says the personal attention and family atmosphere he’s found at the HBCU has helped him to push himself to succeed. Photo by Mark Rhodes
Jan 30, 2023

Head of the class

Donald Alexander Jr. considered multiple schools, as well as the Air Force, before he landed at Norfolk State University in 2019. The Chesapeake native grew up with strong ties to the university, one of Virginia’s two public historically Black colleges and universities. As an elementary schooler, Alexander went to summer camp on Norfolk State’s campus, […]

Executive insights
Jan 30, 2023

MARCIA CONSTON

Conston saw early on the value that education has for marginalized communities. She knew her goal was “to become someone to effect change in the lives of young people. And I knew that education would be the path to do that.” Conston began her career as a college administrator at her alma mater, Mississippi’s Jackson […]

Mary Washington hires admin/finance VP
Jan 18, 2023

Mary Washington hires admin/finance VP

The University of Mary Washington has hired Craig Erwin as vice president for administration and finance, effective Jan. 10. Erwin replaces Paul Messplay, who retires on Jan. 20. Erwin comes to UMW from Southwestern University, a private liberal arts college in Georgetown, Texas, where he was vice president for finance and administration and chief financial […]

Kevin Leslie. Photo courtesy Old Dominion University
Jan 13, 2023

ODU hires associate VP for innovation, commercialization

Kevin Leslie will be Old Dominion University‘s first associate vice president for innovation and commercialization, the Norfolk-based university announced Friday. Leslie will improve ODU’s technology transfer operation to better identify, develop and market faculty, staff and student intellectual property and startups. He also will lead federal and other grant applications related to i[...]

Though it’s been teaching business courses since at least 1919, the University of Mary Washington didn’t establish its College of Business until 2010. Photo courtesy University of Mary Washington
Dec 29, 2022

Getting down to business

In the late 1990s, Jennifer E. Clift was working as a secretary when her supervisor encouraged her to continue her education. She began taking business classes at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg. “I wasn’t in a settled place,” she says. “I was not a traditional student. I was working full time, plus pretty […]

Julien Reininger launched his vegan jerky business, Jacked! Jackfruit Jerky, as a college student with the help of Virginia Commonwealth University’s da Vinci Center for Innovation and its pre-accelerator program. Photo by Matthew R.O. Brown
Dec 29, 2022

On your mark

When Virginia Commonwealth University closed its buildings in spring 2020, then-student Julien Reininger wasn’t deterred from his entrepreneurial pursuits. In the kitchen of his parents’ Springfield home, Reininger ran a dehydrator for eight hours at a time, creating vegan jerky from canned jackfruit and developing different marinades. “I’m sure when I started doing it, they [&[...]

Christopher Goyne, director of the University of Virginia’s Aerospace Research Laboratory Photo courtesy University of Virginia
Dec 29, 2022

U.Va. leads Pentagon hypersonic project

Like a “Top Gun” fighter pilot, Christopher Goyne feels the need for speed. Goyne directs the University of Virginia’s Aerospace Research Laboratory and leads a new team developing hypersonic engines that will enable more maneuverable missiles, jets and — eventually — spacecraft via a $4.5 million Department of Defense award announced in October. Under the […]

ODU hires associate VP for corporate partnerships
Dec 19, 2022

ODU hires associate VP for corporate partnerships

Civic Leadership Institute President and CEO Sarah Jane Kirkland will become Old Dominion University‘s associate vice president for corporate partnerships on March 1, 2023, the Norfolk university announced Thursday. “Sarah Jane is well-known and highly respected in Hampton Roads, especially among business and industry leaders. For many years, she has been fully dedicated to creating [&hell[...]

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Dec 15, 2022

Youngkin budget outlines EVMS/ODU merger by 2024

In his proposed budget amendments released Thursday, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin lays out the framework and a timeline for the merger of Eastern Virginia Medical School and Old Dominion University, requiring it to take place by July 2024. Youngkin’s amendments to the 2022-24 state budget, which must be passed by the General Assembly during its 2023 […]

Independent colleges council taps former state delegate as leader
Dec 12, 2022

Independent colleges council taps former state delegate as leader

Former Virginia Del. Christopher K. Peace will be the next president of the Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia Inc. (CICV) after the 2023 regular General Assembly session concludes. “[Chris] is far more than a lobbyist and attorney — he is a strategist with a great grasp of the issues. He carries a reputation as […]

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