An entry titled “University of Richmond Cooks Up a Winning Formula” on the Epicuriosity blog features the Center for Culinary Arts and offers highlights from lunch at a recent event at the Center. [More...]
Dr. Roberts considers lessons learned from past decade
January 7, 2010Dr. Dan Roberts, chair of the Liberal Arts program in the School of Continuing Studies, is quoted offering his thoughts on lessons learned from the past decade in an article titled “Decade of Low Points Broken Up by Occasional Highlight” in the December 31, 2009, edition of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. [More...]
Prof. Decker named Public Safety Secretary
January 6, 2010Among his first appointments in advance of taking office January 16, Governor-elect Bob McDonnell named Marla Gruff Decker, Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Continuing Studies, as the Commonwealth’s Secretary of Public Safety. [More...]
Weekend College mentioned in Danville News feature
December 24, 2009A Danville News feature about adults returning to school titled “It’s Never Too Late to Get an Education” mentions the School of Continuing Studies Weekend College program at Danville Community College. The program offers students an accelerated Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree at Danville Community College. [More...]
Ballroom Dance Teachers Academy featured in Times-Dispatch
December 24, 2009The Ballroom Dance Teachers Academy, offered by Simply Ballroom through the Office of Community and Professional Education at the School of Continuing Studies, is featured in an article titled “Chesterfield Ballroom Dance Academy Trains All Types”. [More...]
Professor Hiller moderates SCHEV panel
December 17, 2009George Hiller, adjunct associate professor in the School of Continuing Studies, recently moderated a panel discussion on higher education, internationalization and economic growth for a meeting of SCHEV, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.
The panel, titled “Strengthening alignment of higher education and economic development, broadly construed, to enhance Virginia’s competitiveness,” was part of the Higher Education, Globalization, and Economic Development meeting held on December 4, 2009. The meeting’s topic was aligning the internationalization of Virginia higher education and state economic development. [More...]
UR newsroom features landscape design program
November 11, 2009“There’s a tremendous amount of growth and a new interest in the green industry and sustainability,” says Cary Jamieson, landscape design program specialist at the School of Continuing Studies. “Homeowners are starting to be very interested in urban farming, organic vegetable gardens, rain gardens, green roofs and native plants.” [More...]
Professor Strait to present paper on immigration
November 2, 2009Dr. Patricia Strait, chair of the Human Resource Management program at the School of Continuing Studies, will present a paper, titled “When Societies Collide: Toward an Immigration Model for the 21st Century,” at the Fifth Annual International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in August 2010. [More...]
Partners in the Arts program featured
October 20, 2009A Native American storytelling program at Goochland Middle School that was funded through Partners in the Arts, a new program of the School of Continuing Studies, is featured in an article titled “Native American Storytellers at GMS” in the Goochland Gazette. [More...]
Osher Institute receives unexpected gift
October 20, 2009The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Richmond School of Continuing Studies has received a special, one-time gift of $25,000 from The Bernard Osher Foundation. Mary Bitterman, president of The Bernard Osher Foundation, announced the gift during the recent Osher Lifelong Learning Institute conference in Park City, Utah. Each institute funded by the Foundation received the gift award. [More...]
