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...]

Professor Strait to publish article on work ethics

Professor Patricia Strait, chair of the Human Resource Management and Leadership programs, will have published an article titled “Exploration of Five Theories to Explain and Manage the Unethical Behavior of Public Employees” in an upcoming issue of the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. [More...]

Dean Brown appointed to awards committee

Dr. Patricia Johnson Brown, Senior Associate Dean of the School of Continuing Studies, has been appointed by Governor Kaine to the Commonwealth’s Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Awards Committee for an additional two-year term. [More...]

SCS is on Facebook

The School of Continuing Studies is on Facebook! We’ve joined the University as a whole – and several of the University’s school and departments – in creating a Facebook page. [More...]

Weekend College Students Form 5K Team

Members of the extended School of Continuing Studies community, through the Danville Weekend College program, formed an inaugural Weekend College – Danville team to participate in the Danville Downtown Association Shamrock 5K Run/Walk on March 21, 2009. Site Coordinator Stephanie Ferrugia, a current student, an applicant and a professor made up the Weekend College team and had the opportunity to spread the word about the School’s Weekend College program in Danville. Learn more about the Weekend College program at scs.richmond.edu/weekend.

Team Members (L to R): Amanda Yates, C'11; Stephanie Ferrugia, Site Coordinator; Laurie Dishman, C'10; Anna Dishman (Laurie's daughter) and Prof. Rebecca Mulwee

SCS Friend Barbara Weisenberger Passes Away

With sadness the School of Continuing Studies acknowledges the passing of Barbara Weisenberger on Sunday, November 23, 2008. Ms. Weisenberger enjoyed a long tenure with the University of Richmond and the School of Continuing Studies, and she was acknowledged by many to be a “walking encyclopedia” of knowledge about the University, policies and student services – particularly in the areas of student admissions, registration and records. Any time an issue arose, the common response was “Ask Barbara… She will know!”

A memorial service will be scheduled at a later time, pending the recovery of Barbara’s husband, Terry, from a recent illness. Details will be provided when they become available.

Dr. Kitchen First Speaker in Environment Series

Dr. David Kitchen, Associate Dean, will offer the first lecture in the 2008-2009 Global Environment Speaker Series (GESS). His talk, which will be offered on Tuesday, October 28, at 6:00 PM in the Gottwald Auditorium, is titled “Some Like It Hot: Welding the Cracks Between Climate Science and Policy.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

Dean Narduzzi Featured in Journal Article

Dr. James L. Narduzzi, Dean of the School of Continuing Studies, and Mary Bitterman, President of The Bernard Osher Foundation, are interviewed in an article titled “‘The Bravest of the Brave’: A Conversation with Mary Bitterman and James Narduzzi” in the Fall 2008 edition of Continuing Higher Education Review. The article highlights support offered to the “bravest of the brave,” those older students who return to the classroom to earn a bachelor’s degree, by The Bernard Osher Foundation and the School of Continuing Studies.

The fall edition of Continuing Higher Education Review is made available in PDF format on the University Continuing Education Association’s Web site, ucea.org. (Note: As of this notice, the Fall 2008 edition of CHER is not yet available. It should be made available within three weeks. -Editor)