The Office of Disability Resources at Longwood University is sponsoring the first annual Inclusive Excellence Award. The award will highlight one university faculty member and one university staff member who have each made a significant contribution to the campus regarding inclusive design and practice ...
One of the blessings we as United States citizens have is our First Amendment right to free speech. The ability to express opinions openly to others is an opportunity many countries do not have, and quite possibly, may never be able to utilize. Because we have such powerful freedom in our hands, it ...
While it's not as large as the Job & Internship Fair held each semester at Longwood, some of the opportunities at the Local Employer Showcase are just as exciting for students who want to engage themselves locally in the community. A well-received turnout was observed for this year's fair, the second ...
On Saturday, March 31, Longwood students decided to not just talk about Longwood's mission to form citizen leaders, but instead show how Longwood is creating citizen leaders. Nearly 650 Longwood students decided to go out into the community and be the citizen leaders Longwood shapes each student to ...
The Longwood University Board of Visitors (BOV) held its spring meeting Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31. The board decided not to approve any tuition or fee increase because there is no final state budget passed by the General Assembly. The final budget will detail the amount of money given ...
The Longwood University Board of Visitors (BOV) held its spring meeting Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31. The board decided not to approve any tuition or fee increase because there is no final state budget passed by the General Assembly. The final budget will detail the amount of money given ...
As reported last week in The Rotunda, officials at the Longwood University Heating Plant are looking into problems causing heavier than usual smoke coming from the plant in recent weeks. Facilities Operations Manager Ben Myers explained that currently, the staff at the heating plant is working through ...
Officials at Longwood University are actively working to correct the excessive smoke produced by the Heating Plant on campus. In the past few months, the smoke has been unusually thick, covering the air around campus and in town on some days. In a university press release dated March 14, Vice President ...
The sound of a gong rang out through the Lankford Student Union on Wednesday evening, March 7 as groups of volunteers supporting the Stop Hunger Now event packed up another five boxes full of meals to be sent out to families in need. The event quickly turned into a race as volunteers tried to ...
We all remember the advertisement from the 1987 anti-drug campaign launched by the Partnership for a Drug- Free America. "This is your brain," said a man picking up a frying pan. "This is drugs," he said, holding two eggs. "This is your brain on drugs," he said after cracking the egg open and frying ...
Every 10 years, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS and COC) require universities and schools all over the southern U.S. to have their accreditation reaffirmed. For Longwood University it is no different, only this year the university must go through a process ...
The main topic of discussion at the March 27 meeting of the Student Government Association (SGA) was the commencement of going through confirming the SGA budget for the 2012-2013 school year. Before they went through the budget, however, they got a couple of housekeeping issues taken care of. Patrick ...
Despite the distance some students may face when looking at options for school, Longwood is now making that decision easier for individuals in Southern Virginia. Offered through the College of Professional and Graduate studies, students from Martinsville and Emporia can now attend classes as if they ...
If you've ever been interested in a career with the federal government, your dream might be answered by a simple email. Chief of Management Services Jeffrey J. Murphy from the National Defense University's (NDU) Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS), visited Longwood Wednesday, ...
On Tuesday, March 20, a siren signifying a tornado drill was to be sounded at exactly 9:45 a.m. The drill at Longwood University was part of a statewide tornado preparedness effort. The day of the drill, however, the alarm did not sound until 9:56 a.m. due to a miscommunication between Longwood University ...
Dr. Brian Bates, associate professor of anthropology, department chair of sociology, anthropology and criminal justice studies, and director of the Longwood Archaeology Field School, tells his students the same story on the first day of class every semester. He reveals how he can never sleep well the ...
On Tuesday, March 6, the Student Government Association (SGA) assembled to discuss a variety of topics affecting the Longwood University community. Senator Brandon Readus mentioned that Parking Manager Laura Rice plans to replace the faded parking signs that were brought up in a previous meeting. However, ...
Longwood's Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) couldn't have asked for a better day than Thursday, March 1 to hold their Super Soldier event on Iler Field. With help from the Longwood University Strength and Conditioning Department, the first annual event gave the average student a taste of what ...
The fourth and final Executive-in-Residence event of the academic year was held in Blackwell Hall on Feb. 29. Sudhakar V. Shenoy, founder, chairman and CEO of IMC, Inc. in Reston, Va., addressed a packed room on how he risked everything to win in business on two different continents. Under his leadership, ...
March 1 or Feb. 29, your choice, marked the first day of what is known as meteorological spring. This is the period when weather begins to transform from a relatively settled and cool pattern, and warm air then replaces any threat of snow. However, these warm fronts are often interrupted by a period ...
