Wendy Collins Perdue, an associate dean and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, has been named the next dean of University of Richmond’s School of Law, effective July 1.

In a new partnership with the Virginia Council of CEOs, University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business has developed an economic outlook survey to help central Virginia companies plan for growth.

U.S. News & World Report has ranked the University of Richmond a top-tier national liberal arts college for the sixth year in a row in its 2011 “America’s Best Colleges” issue, on newsstands Aug. 17.

University of Richmond has been named to U.S. News & World Report’s list of “11 Best Values Among National Liberal Arts Colleges.”

The season includes two Modlin Downtown events at the Landmark Theater: in October, author and humorist David Sedaris returns to Richmond with his latest work and in March, the KODO Drummers of Japan will thrill with the excitement and pageantry of taiko.

The nation's top education official told graduates of the University of Richmond to make community service a hallmark of their lives.

Nancy A. Bagranoff, president of the American Accounting Association and an accounting scholar with numerous textbooks and articles on accounting information systems, consulting, and information technology audit and control to her credit, has been named the next dean of the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business.