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History of African-Americans at UVA : History of African-American tours run approximately an hour and grapple with our University's complicated racial legacies of slavery and discrimination. Topics covered will include slavery, integration, and even a discussion of the modern racial climate at UVA.

Memorial to Enslaved Laborers (MEL) tour:  MEL tours discuss the history of enslaved laborers' resistance and resilience at the University and the advocacy by community members and students to fully acknowledge and memorialize their labor. MEL tours were designed by the Descendants of Enslaved Communities (DEC-UVA). If you would like to receive a MEL tour from a University Guide, use the  specialty request form  on our website. If you would like to receive a MEL tour from a Descendant, click here . For more information on the MEL, visit  mel.virginia.edu .

History of Women at UVA : History of Women tours run approximately an hour and focus on the process of gradual integration of women at the University of Virginia. Tourists learn about the lives of the first women on Grounds in the 1820s and the gradual acceptance of women into the student community.

Garden Tours : Garden Tours run approximately forty-five minutes and give tourists an inside look into the Pavilion gardens at the University. The tours explore the role of the gardens during the early University and their transformation to the modern day spaces students enjoy today.

Children's Tours : Children's tours run approximately an hour and introduce various exciting stories about the University. Children will learn about the founder of the University, Thomas Jefferson, early life at the University, and the burning of the Rotunda in 1895. The content of these tours is geared toward young children from Pre-K to Fifth grade. Older student groups should request a traditional historical tour. For more resources for educators, see this Google folder .

Grace Tabor (CLAS '21) and Jake Libby (CLAS '20) team up to lead a Children's tour.

Zach Schauffler (CLAS '19) calls on eager Children's tour participants.

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Visiting our beautiful campus is the best way to experience our unique brand of personalized education and learn about our distinctive mission to gather, lift, and launch members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Prospective students are given the opportunity to sit in on classes in order to experience the top-tier education available at Southern Virginia University. For a list of classes available, contact your admissions counselor.

Campus Tours

Southern Virginia University’s campus is historic and beautiful. As part of a campus visit, admission counselors lead tours of campus facilities for prospective students and their parents, offering insights and information about the past, present, and future of the school.

Athletic ID Camps

Showcase your talents for one of our 28 athletic teams. If you are interested in trying out for a team, you may register for an Athletic ID Camp, contact a coach, or talk with your admissions counselor to schedule a workout.

Performing Arts Auditions

Students visiting campus may audition for scholarships in the performing arts, including instrumental, vocal, or theatrical scholarships. Contact your admissions counselor to schedule an individual audition.

Travel Reimbursement Up to $400

To make travel to campus a possibility for prospective students across the country, Southern Virginia University will reimburse some of your travel expenses for visiting campus. You may choose to apply your travel reimbursement towards your first semester of tuition. To qualify for a travel reimbursement, you must complete our free admissions application. For more details contact your admissions counselor.

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Ready for an all-inclusive Virginia Tech experience? We host several events throughout the year in partnership with various campus departments. To learn more, check out our upcoming programs and events webpage.

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Group Visits and Tours

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions welcomes group visits from high schools or community-based organizations (students must be in 9th grade or higher) Tuesday through Thursday. Group visits must be requested at least four (4) weeks in advance.

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Virginia news | university of virginia expels 1 fraternity and suspends 3 others over hazing concerns.

CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP) — Concerns about hazing have prompted the University of Virginia to terminate one local fraternity and suspend three others on its Charlottesville campus, the school said Wednesday.

The university said in a statement that the Pi Kappa Alpha chapter had “engaged in serious hazing behavior .” The school said it decided to terminate its fraternal organization agreement following an investigation.

Disciplinary action also has been initiated against individual students for their alleged involvement in hazing, the university said.

The school did not elaborate on the allegations or the findings against the chapter. It said details will be posted in the coming weeks on a university webpage that publishes reports of hazing misconduct.

Pi Kappa Alpha did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking comment. The Daily Progress and other news outlets reported that Justin Buck, executive vice president of Pi Kappa Alpha national, confirmed the chapter was expelled for a minimum of four years.

Buck said the fraternity members there were an “embarrassment” and that they “sullied and degraded” the organization’s good name, The Daily Progress reported.

“This action was taken following the confirmed abhorrent and detestable hazing activities by individuals,” Buck said.

Theta Chi said in a statement that its staff members have been in contact with university administrators and chapter leadership and are gathering facts.

“Theta Chi does not tolerate hazing as it runs directly contrary to its mission of developing Resolute Men and has no place within the fraternity experience,” the organization said in a statement.

The national organizations for the other chapters did not respond to emails seeking comment.

“The university does not tolerate hazing activity,” the school said, “and we act quickly to investigate and pursue necessary disciplinary action when reports are made.”

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Virginia to Host Northern Illinois Transfer Xavier Amos for Official Visit

• Author: Matt Newton

Virginia's busy April on the recruiting trail continues. The Cavaliers have scheduled a third transfer visitor and one that could be an ideal fit at a critical position of need. Northern Illinois transfer forward Xavier Amos will reportedly take an official visit to Virginia this upcoming Friday (April 26). Amos will be the third transfer portal target to visit UVA this offseason, joining Saint Mary's forward Joshua Jefferson , who visited April 12-14, and Illinois-Chicago wing Toby Okani , who is set to visit the Cavaliers on Tuesday, April 23.

Update: Xavier Amos will be Virginia's fourth transfer portal visitor of the offseason, as the Cavaliers are also hosting Saint Mary's transfer guard Aidan Mahaney on Tuesday.

Northern Illinois transfer Xavier Amos tells @On3sports he will visit Virginia on Friday. The 6-8 sophomore averaged 13.8 points, 1.3 blocks, and shot 38.5% 3P this season. https://t.co/OmVT1pG84C https://t.co/wjDcq5Ynas pic.twitter.com/v5rY4kz2qT — Jamie Shaw (@JamieShaw5) April 22, 2024

A 6'8", 215-pound forward from Chicago, Illinois, Amos started 25 games as a sophomore in 2023-2024, averaging 13.8 points, 5.8 rebounds, 1.3 blocks, 1.2 assists, and 0.8 steals per game in a little over 30 minutes per contest. Tony Bennett will naturally be interested in Amos as a plus defender, but he is also an offensive asset who can score at all three levels and stretch the floor by shooting 38.5% from three, which would have made him Virginia's fourth-best three-point shooter last season. His best game came against a major conference team that made the NCAA Tournament, scoring 26 points on 11/15 shooting and 4/5 from three-point range on the road at Northwestern.

Amos entered the transfer portal at the end of the season with two years of eligibility remaining. Virginia was among the first of an sizable list of major conference programs to reach out to Amos, a group that included Kansas, Texas, Illinois, Xavier, and Cal.

Xavier has a professional style of play. It’s precise, instinctive, fluid, and controlled. He’s mastered all three levels of scoring within the system and confinement of the college game. He will be a nightmare at the pro level with his skill set. #Yoda pic.twitter.com/bqqq1mHW0N — Rashad Phillips (@RP3natural) April 4, 2024

Not only is Amos an extremely valuable player on his own, but his fit would be ideal to address a particular need on Virginia's roster for next season. The Cavaliers are losing both of their main power forwards from a season ago in Ryan Dunn and Jake Groves, leaving incoming freshman Jacob Cofie as the only power forward on next year's roster. With his ability to serve as a versatile defender and rim protector on the defensive end and his ability to score at all three levels on the offensive end, Amos would be a home run addition for the Cavaliers if Tony Bennett and company can reel him in next weekend.

The timing of the scheduling of this visit should be noted as well. Virginia had its eyes on another forward in the transfer portal: Joshua Jefferson from Saint Mary's, who visited two weekends ago. Jefferson took a couple of additional visits after his trip to Charlottesville and is now being projected to commit to Iowa State per On3 . If Jefferson is off the board, it makes even more sense that the Cavaliers are now aggressively pursuing another forward who might be an even better fit.

Virginia currently has four open scholarships for the 2024-2025 season.

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ODU Receives $200,000 from SCHEV to Alleviate Financial Barriers of Internships and for Research

By Kenya Godette

The Old Dominion University  Monarch Internship and Co-Op Office  was awarded $200,000 in grant funding from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) to supplement associated costs of unpaid internships and to enhance research on student internship experiences. 

Funding was awarded in two $100,000 grants from the Virginia Talent + Opportunity Partnership (V-TOP) in collaboration with the Virginia Chamber Foundation. This partnership aims to connect Virginia businesses offering work-based learning opportunities with students, signifying a concerted effort to stimulate partnerships between public universities and commercial organizations.

“These grants represent a significant investment in the future workforce of Virginia,” said Barbara Blake, executive director for the Monarch Internship and Co-Op Office. “This $200,000, in addition to the  recently awarded $5 million Mellon Foundation grant  that provides internship support to humanities majors, underscores our unwavering commitment to advance work-based learning statewide.”

The first award is a $100,000 Institutional Award for Student Internship Support Grant. Funds will be used to address financial obstacles that students encounter when participating in internships by providing stipends for unpaid opportunities, transportation costs, professional attire, housing and necessary materials for internship preparation. 

Students can apply for Summer 2024 and Fall 2024 internship support in May.

The second $100,000 award is from the Institutional Internship Data Collection Grant, a statewide initiative that assists higher education institutions in collecting, compiling and reporting data on student internship experiences. With this funding, the office will incentivize students to enroll in zero-credit, tuition-free courses that allow the University to track student internship experiences.

“There are many students at the University who engage in great internships but, unfortunately, ODU may not know about their work,” Blake said. “Some students don’t need a credit bearing course to complete their major, so there is no reason for them to report their internship experiences to us—hindering our ability to collect data.” 

This grant will also provide an incentive to students who participate in data collection events and programs that the internship office will offer.

Through the strategic utilization of these grants, the Monarch Internship and Co-Op Office aims to ensure equitable access to high-quality internship opportunities for all ODU students, regardless of their financial circumstances.

For more information about the Monarch Internship and Co-Op Office and its initiatives, please visit  www.odu.edu/internship  or contact 757-683-JOBS or email [email protected] .

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April 23, 2024

U.S. Education Department officials to visit VCU to hear about transfer student pathways and success

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By Brian McNeill

Senior officials from the U.S. Department of Education will visit Virginia Commonwealth University on Friday, April 26, to hear about how VCU is innovating to close equity gaps and improve higher education access and student success, particularly among transfer and STEM students.

Nasser Paydar, Ph.D., assistant secretary of education for postsecondary education, and Amy Loyd, Ed.D., assistant secretary for career, technical, and adult education, will first visit Reynolds Community College and then VCU’s new STEM Building.

At VCU, they will meet with VCU President Michael Rao, Ph.D., and attend roundtable discussions with VCU students, faculty and leaders about how VCU and the state of Virginia support the success of all students, including those who transfer.

Media interested in attending the visit may RSVP by contacting  [email protected] .

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Open forums set for finalists for next commandant of the Corps of Cadets

• Melody Warnick

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The search committee for the next commandant of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets invites the campus community to participate in open forum sessions for the three finalists who will take part in visits to Blacksburg later this month.

The Commandant of Cadets serves as the top leader of the 1,200+-member Corps of Cadets program, designed to develop exceptional officers for the armed services as well as civilian leaders who excel in non-military settings. As one of six senior military colleges embedded in a nationally respected university, the corps has a storied history of producing leaders of exemplary character who change society. The next commandant will have the opportunity to build on this singular legacy and to lead the Corps of Cadets to even greater accomplishments.

The new commandant will replace Maj. Gen. Randal Fullhart, who announced his retirement last September after 13 years in that role, the longest tenure of a commandant of cadets in corps history at Virginia Tech.

Frances Keene, vice president of student affairs and chair of the search committee, invites members of the campus community to meet the candidates in person or via Zoom during the forums. Links for the open forums will be posted on the senior search website on the morning of each forum. Candidates will share their perspectives on the role of the Corps of Cadets at a land-grant institution.

Brig. Gen. Kelly M. Dickerson, U.S. Army

Thursday, April 25, in the multipurpose room of the Corps Leadership and Military Science Building, and on Zoom. Presentation and Q&A, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Reception, 4:30–5:30 p.m.

Currently the vice president of global seller risk at Paypal, Dickerson has also served as chief operating officer at software firm Katabat, venture capital firm QED Investors, and mortgage lender Privlo. He’s been a member of the U.S. Army since 1989, most recently acting as brigadier general in the Office of the Chief, Army Reserve. Dickerson holds a master's degree in strategic studies from the Army War College and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Virginia Tech. 

Maj. Gen. Brian T. Bishop, U.S. Air Force

Tuesday, April 30, in the Solitude Room at the Inn at Virginia Tech, and on Zoom. Presentation and Q&A, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Reception, 4:30–5:30 p.m.

Bishop is the president of Brian T. Bishop and Associates, a firm through which he offers consulting on leadership and high-performance team building. Previously he served as commander for the Spaatz Center for Officer Education and commandant of the Air War College; deputy chief of staff of United Nations Command and U.S. Forces Korea; and deputy director of western hemisphere politico-military affairs for the Department of Defense. A retired major general in the U.S. Air Force, Bishop holds a master's degree in business administration from Oklahoma City University and a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Maj. Gen. William “Bill” H. Seely III, U.S. Marine Corps

Thursday, May 2, in the multipurpose room of the Corps Leadership and Military Science Building, and on Zoom. Presentation and Q&A, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Reception, 4:30–5:30 p.m.

Seely is the commandant for the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. A major general in the U.S. Marine Corps, he previously served as director of the information intelligence division for Marine Corps headquarters in the Pentagon; as commandant of the Joint Forces Staff College at the National Defense University in Norfolk, Virginia; and as director of the joint operations center for U.S. Central Command in Iraq. Seely holds a master’s degree in entrepreneurship from Oklahoma State University, a master’s in national security and strategic studies from Naval War College, a master’s in strategic intelligence from National Intelligence University, and a bachelor’s degree in international studies from American University.

The commandant of the Corps of Cadets position description, application/nomination process, and search updates are posted and available on the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost website .

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The Dental Hygiene program at Virginia Commonwealth University, which began in 1969, is accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation. The commission is a specialized body recognized by the United States Department of Education. The Commission on Dental Accreditation can be contacted at (312) 440-4653 or at 211 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611-2678. Visit the commission’s website: http://www.ada.org/en/coda . 

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