Campus Announcements
The School of Professional & Continuing Studies celebrates its students for the week of March 1-5, 2021, during a special spring semester reprise of SPCS Student Week.
Nominations from current SPCS students are now being accepted for two 2021 Commencement awards: the Jean H. Proffitt Student Service Award and the Itzkowitz Family Distinguished Adjunct Faculty Award.
Adjunct associate professor of education Erik Laursen, along with alums Rachel Bringewatt, GC’20, and Meredith Pram, GC’20, and current graduate student Ebonee Henry, C’19, have collaborated to author and publish an article in the Journal of Education and Social Policy.
Kennedy George, daughter of Chris George, GC’18, was featured in one of the most iconic images of Richmond’s summer protests, while Chris was quoted in concurrent media coverage.
The Honorable Bill Bolling, former lieutentant governor of Virginia, has joined the School’s instructional team to teach a professional education courses on Virginia Politics & Government and to help facilitate the Political Campaign Management Professional Certificate program.
Fred F. Gatty, C’16, has published Believe Dare Become: What You Believe and Dare Influence Who You Become, a book that “challenges the widely-held assumption that what we become in life is predetermined.”
Registration for Spring 2020 online classes offered by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Richmond is now available.
Cecelia Greenwood, GC'16, has been hired as Communities in Schools Site Coordinator for Meadowbrook High School in Chesterfield County.
April Bittner, GC’21, currently a student in the SPCS Educational Leadership & Policy Studies (ELPS) program, has been hired as an Instructional Specialist in English at Virtual Virginia.
Lt. Marilyn Durham, GC’20, was featured in Powhatan Today for her recent promotion to head of the Powhatan County Sheriff’s Office’s criminal investigations, becoming the highest ranking female in the office’s history.