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Nov 29, 2024

Virginia 500 Spotlight: Tracy Fitzsimmons

What I enjoy about my career: There is nothing better than being there to witness students have a “light bulb moment” or land their dream first job. Most interesting place I’ve traveled: Bhutan. Their commitment to Gross National Happiness is fascinating and instructive. My thoughts on artificial intelligence: AI is coming either for our jobs […]

May 15, 2024

Shenandoah University receives $20M gift from alumnus

A Shenandoah University alumnus and his wife have pledged $20 million to the university, the largest individual donation in the history of the Winchester school. Wilbur and Clare Dove’s gift, announced last month, will go toward the building of a performing and visual arts center on campus, according to the university. Wilbur Dove earned his junior […]

Aug 30, 2023

Education 2023: TRACY FITZSIMMONS

SU’s president since 2008, Fitzsimmons is overseeing the renovation of a former National Guard armory on the private university‘s main Winchester campus into the Hub for Innovators, Veterans and Entrepreneurs (HIVE). Scheduled to open in 2024, HIVE will support startups, offer career pathways for veterans and serve as home to SU’s technology programs. SU also […]

Jun 29, 2023

Nurse training partnership to help with instructor shortages

Shenandoah University, Valley Health and the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association have teamed up to tackle the Shenandoah Valley region’s nursing shortage by creating a program that can be replicated statewide. Called NextGen Nurses, the program will use semi-retired and retiring nurses as preceptors — experienced licensed clinicians who serve as teachers and coaches — [&hellip[...]

Nov 9, 2022

Fed’s Barkin asks, ‘What’s ‘normal’ anymore?’

The question Tom Barkin is asked the most these days is when the economy will return to normal. The president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has a caution for those who may be wishing for the perceived stability of the pre-pandemic economy. “After two-and-a-half years of instability, we’re all ready to […]

Shenandoah University is renovating a World War II-era armory into a technology hub, seen here in a rendering. Rendering courtesy Shenandoah University
Jul 28, 2022

Shenandoah University creating tech hub

Shenandoah University is connecting the future to the past. It’s renovating an armory on its main campus in Winchester where National Guard soldiers once trained before D-Day, turning it into a Hub for Innovators, Veterans and Entrepreneurs — the HIVE. “This building will be a game changer for economic development in the Northern Valley and […]

University of Virginia Rotunda and Lawn. Photo courtesy University of Virginia
Sep 13, 2021

43 Va. schools make U.S. News and World Report’s 2022 list

Forty-three Virginia schools ranked on the U.S. News and World Report’s 2022 best lists of more than 600 universities and liberal arts colleges in the country, released Monday. The University of Virginia ranked No. 25 in national universities, tying with Carnegie Mellon University and moving one spot up from its rank in 2021. U.Va. ranked […]

Joey Gawrysiak (left) and Grant Paranjape sign agreement.
Dec 7, 2020

Shenandoah University announces partnership with esports league

Shenandoah University announced Monday that it has entered into a partnership with the Washington Justice, a professional Overwatch League, for internships and learning opportunities for students.  This marks the first partnership between a university and a professional Overwatch League team (esports). The Washington Justice represents Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. The partnership will [...]

Aug 29, 2020

Education

MAKOLA M. ABDULLAH PRESIDENT, VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY, PETERSBURG One of the state’s two land-grant universities, Virginia State was originally chartered in 1882 as the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. From an initial class of 126, the Petersburg campus now has 4,385 undergraduate and graduate students. Since arriving in 2016 from his role as provost and […]

U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. represented Virginia from 1965 to 1983.
Jun 10, 2020

Shenandoah University removes Byrd Jr.’s name from biz school

Shenandoah University in Winchester announced Wednesday that its Board of Trustees has voted unanimously to remove the name of the late U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. from its School of Business and board room. “At Shenandoah, we encourage the best, the brightest, the inspired, to come learn with us, in the spirit of equitable […]

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