This past summer, Longwood Athletics enlisted previous Associate Athletics Director for Academics and Student Services, Hannah Ledger, to be appointed for a new role: Senior Associate Athletics Director for Mental Health and Wellness. This new role is leaving a lot of questions from students and staff, ...
Following several months of delays and setbacks, the U.S. Department of Education unveiled its long-awaited new FAFSA form in December 2023. However, the release was not without its challenges, causing complications that have left prospective students uncertain about their financial aid status. Due ...
According to Longwood Dean of Students Jen Fraley, Longwood University’s Administration will look to change its electric scooters and personal transportation device policy before the end of the semester – addressing a large uptick in scooter usage last year and a number of incidents around campus. ...
On February 29, Republican Presidential Candidate and Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley rallied in front of several hundred supporters – swinging through Richmond, Va. as she hopes to gain momentum in her increasingly uphill battle against Former President Donald Trump. “In ...
On Wednesday, February 14, Longwood students and activists from immigration advocacy coalition Free Them All VA once again demonstrated at the Farmville Town Council advocating the shutdown of the Immigration Centers of America (ICA) Farmville Detention Center. This demonstration comes as the Town of ...
The Israel-Hamas conflict has arisen once again with multiple attacks from both sides that have led to thousands of deaths. Universities across the U.S. are seeing an uptick in protests, demonstrations, and attacks on Muslim and Jewish students, yet Longwood University’s campus is quiet on these issues. According ...
In October, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine announced that he had cosponsored the Stop Campus Hazing Act (SCHA), a bipartisan bill designed to require institutions of higher education to report hazing incidents. Hazing is typically defined as “any intentional, knowing, or reckless act committed by a person, ...
During Fall 2022, the C.H.A.N.G.E Coalition wrote an open letter and a list of 13 demands, which included multiple proposals to work towards treating multicultural groups more fairly at Longwood. The C.H.A.N.G.E Coalition is a Longwood University organization, which is an acronym that stands for ...
The Joan Perry Brock Center, since its construction and opening, has presented a new set of experiences and challenges to faculty, staff, students, and the Farmville Community. Following Oliver Anthony’s October 28 concert and the Men’s and Women’s Basketball home openers, officials have continued ...
In December of 2022, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, as well as other state governors, stated the app TikTok and other Chinese apps will not be accessible on state devices and state-run wireless networks. Although announced at the end of last year, the ban didn’t start until July 1, 2023. State ...
On September 13, demonstrators – many of whom were Longwood students – stood in protest at the Farmville Town Council against renewing a contract allowing a controversial immigration center to function. Immigration Centers of America (ICA) operates two private for-profit detention centers ...
Longwood University recently received a grant totaling $568,000 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for a program that addresses the mental health resource desert in the Southside area. The project, titled the Southside Campus and Community Collaborative for Mental ...
On August 10, 2023, Dr. David Magill, chair of the Longwood English department, and Dr. Sean Barry, an associate professor for the Longwood English department, led a faculty development session on teaching with artificial intelligence. Magill said the purpose of the development session was to go over ...
On the weekend of March 17th, fliers were discovered on the top three floors of Rotunda Hall featuring “A skull with a crown and “The Rooks” - per Lt. R. Stuart Raybold, the Interim Director of Public Safety at LUPD. In addition, there was a mask taped over the Joan of Arc at Domremy statue, affectionately ...
With multicultural clubs and organizations garnering more attention on campus, such as AFROH’s Spring Weekend Culture Couture Fashion Show, and C.H.A.N.G.E. officially gaining cohort status in the Student Government Association, increased awareness concerning issues of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, ...
As Longwood University Facilities Department records state, 57 work orders were submitted from September 2022 to March 2023 regarding the 48 elevators located across Longwood’s campus and associated properties. This number of work orders has increased from the February 2022 to August 2022 interval ...
According to new data by the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV), Longwood University’s undergraduate enrollment from fall 2021 to fall 2022 decreased from 3,485 to 3,154, a loss of 331 students. This rate is down from the fall 2020 to fall 2021 when the institution’s undergraduate ...
In March, both the Student Government Association (SGA) and Board of Visitors (BOV) sat down for consequential events, meetings, and hearings. The BOV, which meets quarterly, held its March meeting on the 16th and 17th of the month. At the meeting, each Vice President of the University reported ...
Substance Abuse, while an issue seldom discussed on many college campuses, is one that affects many in the Longwood and Farmville Community. Living spaces, safe spaces, recovery meetings, and other support systems don’t adequately exist for many who desperately need them to maintain healthy living; ...
With a country-wide decline in COVID-19 cases from 5,487,364 cases on February 12, 2022, to 226,618 on March 1, 2023, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommends vaccination against COVID-19 but there is no mask requirement. This also includes testing if presenting symptoms and isolation to be done ...
