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Mar 9, 2023

UMW alumna gives $30M to support research, scholarships

A 1959 graduate of the University of Mary Washington has bequeathed $30 million to her alma mater — the largest donation in the Fredericksburg university’s 115-year history — to support undergraduate research and scholarships, UMW announced Thursday. Irene Piscopo Rodgers, who died in 2022, earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from what was then called […]

The University of Virginia’s board of visitors voted in September 2022 to give students a one-time credit, refunding a recent tuition increase. Photo by Sanjay Suchak
Feb 27, 2023

The big freeze

Given pandemic-caused interruptions, college students have been through a lot so far this decade, but one silver lining at many Virginia schools has been frozen tuition. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin made it a priority to keep costs flat this academic year, and he succeeded in getting all 15 of the state’s public colleges and universities […]

Feb 27, 2023

Va. Tech names new biz school dean

Saonee Sarker, a professor at Sweden’s Lund University, will serve as the next dean of the Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business following an international search. Virginia Tech announced Sarker’s new role Monday. She has been a professor in Lund University’s Department of Informatics in the School of Economics and Management since 2021, and is also a […]

Feb 24, 2023

Angela and Carl Reddix donate $1.1M to JMU

James Madison University alumni Angela and Carl Reddix have made a $1.1 million commitment to their alma mater to support first-generation college students, JMU announced Friday. Founder, president and CEO of Norfolk-based ARDX, a health care management and IT consulting firm, Angela Reddix studied marketing at JMU and graduated in 1990. Her husband, Carl, studied […]

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, […]

Jan 4, 2023

New VCCS chancellor set to start April 1

The Virginia State Board for Community Colleges on Wednesday announced that it hired David Doré to lead the state’s 23 community colleges. Doré currently serves as president of campuses and executive vice chancellor for student experience and workforce development at Tucson, Arizona-based Pima Community College, where more than 30,000 students are enrolled. He replaces Sharon […]

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 […]

Dec 5, 2022

GMU names EVP for finance and admin

George Mason University has promoted Deb Dickenson to executive vice president for finance and administration, the university announced Monday. Dickenson had been serving as interim senior vice president for administration and finance since June. In her new role, she will be responsible for universitywide leadership, strategic oversight and financial and operational management of the administrativ[...]

Hailey Graham, 17, climbs onto a giant articulated dump truck during Branch Group’s G.I.R.L. Construction Experience. Photo by Don Petersen
Nov 29, 2022

Branch builds career pipeline for girls

Women made up about 11% of the construction workforce in 2021, but that doesn’t mean they were all on site wearing a hard hat. That percentage includes women in office and administrative roles, positions more traditionally filled by females, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. And so, many recruiters see women as an […]

Nov 23, 2022

Va. Tech’s real estate program becomes department

Virginia Tech’s real estate program has earned approval from the State Council for Higher Education to become the Blackwood Department of Real Estate. Becoming a department housed under the Pamplin School of Business will offer the former program more resources, enhance its academic and experiential learning offerings and boost its ability to recruit top faculty […]

Oct 3, 2022

Bowman gives $5M to Va. Tech for land development program

Reston-based Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. founder and CEO Gary Bowman committed $5 million to Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering for the expansion of sustainable land development learning initiatives, the university announced Monday. “The Bowman gift solidifies Virginia Tech as the premier undergraduate and graduate programs in the field of sustainable land development,” Mark Widdows[...]

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