Instructor offers advice for a successful party

Cocktail parties can be a bit unnerving to approach—you’ve seen movies and television shows depicting over-the-top parties you could not hope to pull off or disastrous ones that would mortify any host or hostess. But your confidence can become more concrete, if, as a prospective host or hostess, you consider the advice of these expert hosts and hostesses. Learn more about successful party planning from Leigh Crank Perry of Party Themes and Schemes, who offers courses on party planning through the School’s Office of Community and Professional Education.

Alumna Senoga featured on Education Website

Joanita Senoga, C’06, is featured in an article titled “Best & Brightest: African Teacher Excels as Student, Role Model in U.S.” on the Diverse Issues in Education Website. The feature tells Senoga’s compelling story of working as a teacher in her native Uganda, of fleeing Uganda to escape an unwanted forced marriage, of being reunited with her daughters here in the U.S., and of taking several jobs to earn her degree at the University of Richmond. [More...]

Partners in the Arts joins SCS at UR Downtown

Partners in the Arts, the region’s premier arts-in-education program, has joined the School of Continuing Studies with offices at UR Downtown. Administration of the Partners in the Arts program has been transferred to the School from the Arts Council of Richmond effective September 15, 2009. The University has hosted the Partners in the Arts Summer Institute for local educators for a number of years. [More...]

Dean and president collaborate on article

Dr. James L. Narduzzi, dean of the School of Continuing Studies, and Dr. Edward L. Ayers, president of the University of Richmond, have published an article in the Fall 2009 issue of Continuing Higher Education Review. [More...]

Memorial scholarship for Diane Retzer

The School of Continuing Studies has established an annual scholarship to honor the memory of Diane Harrison Retzer, former student advisor for the School. The annual need-based scholarship will be awarded to an Evening School student for the 2010-2011 academic year. [More...]

Chef Gravely promoted to full-time director

Chef Martin Gravely, longtime chef in the School’s Culinary Arts Program, has been promoted to full-time manager of the School’s Culinary Arts Center. Gravely’s former position was part-time coordinator of the Center. His promotion recognizes his leadership and creativity in developing and promoting the Culinary Arts Program as well as the Center. [More...]

SCS honors Barbara Weisenberger’s memory

The School of Continuing Studies will honor the memory of friend and colleague Barbara Weisenberger with a dedication ceremony on September 28. [More...]

Information session on new graduate programs

The School of Continuing Studies is hosting a special information reception for its new graduate programs in educational leadership and policy studies on Wednesday, September 30. These programs are designed for educators who have a minimum of three years professional work experience and wish to obtain endorsement for leading a public school in Virginia. [More...]

Prof. Strait selected for faculty seminars

Dr. Patricia Strait, chair of the Human Resource Management program, was selected as one of twelve faculty members to participate in the Tocqueville Faculty Seminars series to take place here at University of Richmond in the Spring 2010 term. [More...]

Workshop – Nonprofit survival in tough economy

The School of Continuing Studies Institute on Philanthropy will host a breakfast workshop focused on implementing strategies surviving the current economic situation on Wednesday, September 23, 2009. The Breakfast Workshop, sponsored by First Market Bank, will help nonprofit leaders react to the “perfect storm” of declining or disappearing revenues colliding with exponential increases in demand for services. [More...]