Targeted News Service logo

-- Preview Email Newsletter
VCU News Newsletter for 2024-05-15 ( 3 items )  
Goldwater Institute Issues Commentary: Three More States Drop DEI Programs at Their Public Universities (10)
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 15 -- The Goldwater Institute issued the following commentary on May 14, 2024: * * * Three More States Drop DEI Programs at Their Public Universities By Timothy K. Minella, Senior Fellow at the Goldwater Institute's Van Sittert Center for Constitutional Advocacy It's happening in Virginia, where George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University rejected proposals to force all students to take "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) courses to graduate. It's more PR

VCU Implements Traffic Plan for High School Graduations at Siegel Center During Week of May 20 (10)
RICHMOND, Virginia, May 15 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: By Jonsette Calloway-Martin The Virginia Commonwealth University Police Department expects heavy traffic in downtown Richmond during local high school graduation ceremonies at the Stuart C. Siegel Center beginning May 20. Nine high schools from Chesterfield County are hosting ceremonies at the Siegel Center from May 20-24. Each event is expected to attract 400 to 7,000 attendees. VCU Police has collabor more PR

VCU: Class of 2024 - Model Student, Military Veteran and Mom Thomasine Isler Walked a Long Path to Graduation (10)
RICHMOND, Virginia, May 15 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: By Leila Ugincius If Thomasine Isler's 20-year-old son brings home a bad grade in one of his college courses, she has a rare card to play. As a full-time student herself at Virginia Commonwealth University, Isler is earning straight A's. "He had one C his first semester of freshman year," Isler said of her son, a rising junior studying cybersecurity. "So of course, I was able to back up my argument [for  more PR