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The pandemic and changing student attitudes have prompted Virginia Union University and other institutions to offer more classes online, says the school’s provost, Terrell Strayhorn. Photo by Matthew R.O. Brown

Private accounts

Independent colleges aim for healthy enrollment

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One of Terrell Strayhorn’s first assignments as Virginia Union University’s provost was to win final approval for graduate programs seen as a key mechanism for enrollment growth. It was the…

“Hearth,” William & Mary’s memorial to African Americans enslaved by the university, is scheduled for groundbreaking in early 2021 and will be completed in fall 2021.

The road to reconciliation

William & Mary increases efforts to promote racial equity, healing

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William & Mary’s first African American dean is seeking to transform the university’s law school in ways both fundamental and symbolic. Introducing a 12-part action plan titled “Why We Can’t…

This rendering shows a view of the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus’ academic space, which will be located along Potomac Avenue in Alexandria. Rendering by SmithGroup, courtesy Virginia Tech

Tech talent factory

Virginia Tech’s Innovation Campus will partner with industry to create tomorrow’s tech workforce

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Lance R. Collins was hired to lead Virginia Tech’s $1 billion Innovation Campus in one world, but he begins work Aug. 1 in another. But the Innovation Campus’ new vice…

A larger rotunda

Entering its third century, U.Va. recruits more first-generation students

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Alita Robinson, a second-year University of Virginia student from Delaware, delivers a personal message when she calls potential donors seeking support for financial aid programs. “I always tell people the…