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Averett University names new VP and CFO
Apr 2, 2020

Averett University names new VP and CFO

Averett University announced Thursday that Don Aungst has become the university’s new vice president and chief financial and operating officer. He started at the Danville college this month. Aungst was most recently the CFO at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. He has more than 30 years of experience in higher educati[...]

NOVA Educational Foundation receives $1M donation
Apr 2, 2020

NOVA Educational Foundation receives $1M donation

The Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation (NOVA Foundation) announced Thursday it has received a $1 million donation from Debra Coffman Howe of Palm Beach, Florida. The funding will go to Howe’s existing endowment fund for NOVA nursing student scholarships and also to the NOVA COVID-19 Emergency Studen[...]

Apr 2, 2020

U.Va. School of Law grants student exception for National Guard duty

3 p.m. update: According to a letter posted on Virginia Law Weekly, U.Va. School of Law‘s Academic Review Committee has granted student Frannie Skardon an exception, allowing her to remain a full-time student while serving in the Army National Guard. Her unit has been called up to assist in the COVID-19 emergency in New York City. […]

Frank Shushok Jr., vice president for student affairs at Virginia Tech. Photo courtesy Virginia Tech
Mar 30, 2020

Virginia Tech names VP for student affairs

Frank Shushok Jr. has been named vice president for student affairs at Virginia Tech, the university announced Monday, and will officially begin on April 10. He has been the interim vice president since October, overseeing more than 3,000 faculty, staff and student employees in 20 departments. Student affairs also oversees dinin[...]

Contrasting its bucolic setting amid the Appalachian Mountains, the U.Va. Wise campus features contemporary, streamlined architecture.
Mar 29, 2020

Hometown college

On the town of Wise’s website, information about the University of Virginia’s College at Wise sits behind an appropriately labeled tab: “Our College.” When U.Va. Wise was founded in 1954, it was called Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, and it was the commonwealth’s first public college we[...]

Camille Schrier, Miss America 2020
Mar 29, 2020

A woman of science

Beakers and chemicals. Sparkles and high heels. An uncommon pairing for most is Miss America’s reality— something she’s working to normalize for young women. When Miss America 2020 Camille Schrier jumped back into the pageant world last year, she was initially stumped as to what she could do for the talent competit[...]

Mar 27, 2020

Va. Tech student tests positive for COVID-19

A Virginia Tech student living off campus in Blacksburg has tested positive for COVID-19, according to an email sent out Friday by Virginia Tech President Tim Sands. The student is believed to have been exposed to the virus during international travel and is in self quarantine. “The Virginia Department of Health, working with our own […]

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr.
Mar 25, 2020

Northam calls out Falwell for bringing Liberty students back to campus

UPDATED 6:40 P.M., MARCH 25 As Lynchburg city officials blasted Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., calling him “reckless” for inviting students back to campus after spring break, Gov. Ralph Northam weighed in on the brouhaha Wednesday, making a public request for the controversial conservative icon to re[...]

Mar 23, 2020

Northern Virginia Community College launches COVID-19 emergency fund for students

Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) Educational Foundation on Monday launched an emergency student aid fund to help students struggling with economic fallout from COVID-19, with a goal  to issue $500 grants to at least 1,500 students. More than half of NOVA’s 85,000 students work full- or part-time jobs, according to the community college, and the […]

Mar 17, 2020

Universities, colleges cancel graduation ceremonies amid pandemic

The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) has canceled 2020 graduation ceremonies at all 23 state community colleges in light of federal guidance urging people to avoid social gatherings of more than 10 people, VCCS Chancellor Glenn DuBois announced in a letter Tuesday. “While it’s a celebration of individual achievements, it’s a community celebration. Many of […]

The Rotunda at the University of Virginia.
Mar 17, 2020

U.Va. staff member tests positive for COVID-19

University of Virginia President James E. Ryan announced late Monday that a U.Va. Women’s Center staff member has tested positive for COVID-19. “Given the progression of the virus, it is not a surprise to discover a local case, but we know it will heighten anxiety,” Ryan said in the statement. The individual is[...]

Gov. Ralph Northam speaking at a Wednesday press conference addressing updates on coronavirus.
Mar 13, 2020

Northam orders all Va. K-12 schools closed for at least 2 weeks

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has ordered all K-12 schools in Virginia to close for a minimum of two weeks, due to the spread of COVID-19 in the commonwealth. Schools will close starting on Monday, March 16, through at least March 27. Localities will be able to make their own staffing decisions to ensure students continue [&hellip[...]

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