Fall 2014 Issues

Education Reform: Four Critical Issues that Shape the Conversation

Fall 2014

The schools in East St. Louis face formidable challenges, but they are not alone in their efforts to determine how best to provide a quality education to their students. As…

Info systems students benefit from relationship with top grad program

Fall 2014

Longwood’s information systems and security (ISYS) students are benefiting from a relationship with one of the world’s best graduate programs in their field. Four Longwood students—all of those who applied—have…

65 graduate students travel to conferences

Fall 2014

The 2013-14 academic year was a busy one for Longwood’s graduate students. Sixty-five students from the following programs visited 11 professional state and national conferences with the support of their…

Two alumni appointed by governor to new Virginia SOL committee

Fall 2014

Two Longwood alumni, Dr. Jenny Sue Glasco Flannagan ’92 and Dr. Laurie McCullough ’76, have been appointed by Virginia Secretary of Education Anne Holton to Virginia’s Standards of Learning Innovation Committee. The…

WMLU wins top prize for sports coverage

Fall 2014

WMLU, the Longwood campus radio station, has for the sixth consecutive year won the top prize for outstanding sports coverage for a station in its category from the Virginia Association of Broadcasters….

Anthropology professor receives honor from Board of Visitors

Fall 2014

The Longwood Board of Visitors has distinguished longtime professor Dr. Jim Jordan with the highest honor the governing body can bestow upon a faculty member: the Board of Visitors Distinguished…

Marathon Men

Fall 2014

Mike Porter ’90 and his son, Jeffrey, who has cerebral palsy, competed in April 2014 in their first Boston Marathon. The Porters have run about 50 races together over the…

Repairing our Ethics DNA

Fall 2014

Business school commits to educating values-based leaders from elementary school to MBA program

Overlooked Civil Rights Hero

Fall 2014

Patricia Elizabeth Clifton Harwood ’67

Life Lessons

Fall 2014

Emilie Friend Swearingen ’68