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Troy Wiipongwii, affiliated faculty member with W&M’s Global Research Institute, will teach a blockchain course at Emory & Henry College. Photo by Matthew R.O. Brown

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…

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

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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…

Virginia Highlands Community College is building a center to train students in welding and diesel skills. Photo by Earl Neikirk

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.…

“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 Wait — An Agenda for Equity and Justice,” A. Benjamin Spencer says he intends to train a generation of lawyers who will focus on “this…

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 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…

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 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…

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.