As many of you are already aware, there are four colleges here at Longwood, including the College of Graduate & Professional Studies, which you should not be concerned with just yet. So we’ll focus on the three undergraduate colleges.
Each one of these colleges has a dean, and then each department has a chair that handles the details within its department. Throughout the semester, The Rotunda will be featuring different departments from all over campus. For now, here is some information on the four college deans here at Longwood.
For the Cook-Cole College of Arts & Sciences, the dean is Dr. Charles D. Ross. Ross has been at Longwood since 1992 when he was a professor of physics and chair of the Department of Natural Science.
Ross graduated from the University of Virginia with a doctorate in Materials Science. With colleagues from U.Va, he was a co-author of a five million dollar National Science Foundation grant involving work on nanotechnology. Moving a little out of the science field, Ross has also written three books on the role of science and engineering in military history.
The College of Business and Economics dean is Paul T. Barrett. Barrett says that Longwood’s College of Business and Economics “is unique among America’s business programs. It is accredited by AACSB Internationally, the premier accrediting body for business schools nationally and internationally. Overall, Less than five percent of all business schools worldwide are AACSB accredited.”
If business is the way you want to go in school, then go for it. Longwood has a great program, ranked among the best in the south.
The last undergraduate college is the College of Education & Human Services, Dr. Wayne White. White began as the Associate Dean of the College of Education and Human Services at Longwood in 2007. Like the College of Business and Economics, the College of Education & Human Services is also a place a Longwood that “prides itself on the fact that many of the nation’s best educators and administrators, social workers, therapeutic recreation specialists, exercise scientists, speech and language therapists, library media specialists and school/community counselors.”
Longwood is very proud of our colleges and many very important and prestigious accreditations. Getting to know the person running your college is good information to have.
