E&H course demystifies blockchain for businesses
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Business professionals will join Emory & Henry College students this summer for a course that will suggest how blockchain technology can help entrepreneurs, ultimately aiding development in Southwest Virginia. A collaboration between E&H’s School of Business, InvestSWVA and William & Mary’s Global Research Institute, the course will demystify the fundamentals of a technology with far-reaching
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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 early months of the pandemic, he recalls, and the Richmond university was also “knee deep” in the reaffirmation of its accreditation process as it sought
VHCC tech center to expand welding, diesel tech
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Demand for welders is so great that some of Eddie Fultz’s Virginia Highlands Community College students are being hired for part-time jobs while they’re still completing their training. “We’re in a manufacturing area where we cannot meet the demand,” says Fultz, coordinator of VHCC’s welding program. “It’s a great problem to have for the college.
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 Wait — An Agenda for Equity and Justice,” A. Benjamin Spencer says he intends to train a generation of lawyers who will focus on “this
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 president and executive director sees the disruption fueled by the pandemic and recession as only sharpening the mission of Tech’s initiative to create a tech
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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 only reason I’m at U.Va. and have these opportunities … is because I got a scholarship,” says Robinson, who plans to study educational policies and
Interview with an innovator
‘Being passionate is mission critical’
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Interview with Gary Warren, CEO of ivWatch in Hampton
Making a case for liberal arts
UR students learn problem-solving skills
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College profile of University of Richmond
Major construction project
Plans include space for wellness services and basketball teams
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New facilities at the University of Richmond will bring wellness services together in one building and provide a training and performance center for the men’s and women’s basketball teams.