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• Degree of debt runs deep for Virginia students

  If she lived 30 minutes closer, Jazmin Tanner wouldn't be so deeply in debt.

  01/22/2012 12:00 AM

• U.Va. offers 'early action' admission to 3,187

  The University of Virginia offered admission Friday to 3,187 high school seniors who applied through the university's new "early action" admissions program. Among them were 1,547 in-state students.

  01/21/2012 12:00 AM
• VUU to build $14 million complex

  Virginia Union University plans to break ground this year on a $14 million complex that will house two residence halls and a community conference center.

  01/20/2012 12:00 AM
• Gates says U.S. still faces threats

  The United States faces threats from extremists and unstable regimes around the world, but it's the nation's own political incivility that poses the gravest risk, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday.

  01/15/2012 12:06 AM
• Colleges may see funding rise for first time in five years

  Virginia's public colleges and universities are in line to see "the first budget going forward that is higher than the previous year."

  01/11/2021 12:00 AM
• After 5 years of cuts, colleges could get more from state

  On average, colleges and universities could see increases of nearly 7 percent from the state’s General Fund for instructional costs, higher education panel told.

  01/10/2021 1:41 PM
• VCU president's contract extended, enhanced

  While President Michael Rao's base pay of $488,500 remains the same, he is eligible to receive up to $50,000 in incentive pay annually.

  01/06/2021 12:00 AM

• Wampler to head New College Institute

  Retiring Sen. William C. Wampler Jr. will become executive director of the New College Institute in Martinsville when his term in the General Assembly ends Jan. 11.

  01/04/2021 12:00 AM

• Ex-senator named to lead institute in Martinsville

  Retiring Sen. William C. Wampler Jr. today was named executive director of the New College Institute in Martinsville.

  01/03/2022 1:19 PM
• More students log on to online schooling

  Amanda Fischer moved to Richmond in the summer of 2010 with plans to pursue a master's degree in sport leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University. But before classes began that fall, she was offered a job in Ohio.

  01/02/2022 12:01 AM
• Richmond-area shoppers line up for after-Christmas bargains

  Whether it was half-price shoes to wear now or half-price cards for next year, shoppers were looking for – and finding – those day-after-Christmas bargains.

  12/27/2011 12:00 AM
• Remembering the tragic Richmond Theater fire

  The Dec. 26, 1811, fire killed at least 72 people. Their names were read at a solemn ceremony Monday at Monumental Church.

  12/27/2011 12:00 AM
• Police arrest suspect in Christmas Eve shootings, abduction

  Neighbors watch events of arrest unfold at Whitcomb Court.

  12/27/2011 12:00 AM
• Making a Difference: Willie Dell has 'stood up for right all her life'

  She's 81, but Willie Jones Dell prefers to push her age ahead slightly.

  12/21/2011 12:00 AM
• GMU selects business school leader as new president

  An advocate for corporate social responsibility who heads an international business school in Arizona will be the new president of George Mason University.

  12/16/2011 12:00 AM
• International business school leader named GMU president

  Angel Cabrera, president of the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz., will succeed  Alan Merten on July 1.

  12/15/2011 9:17 AM
• McDonnell seeks $100 million more for colleges

  Gov. Bob McDonnell said Wednesday that he will seek an additional $100 million a year for higher education over the next biennial budget.

  12/15/2011 12:00 AM

• Tragedy, all too familiar, unites campus

  As Virginia Tech officials were in Washington defending their handling of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, a trauma sadly too familiar touched the campus again Thursday.

  12/09/2021 12:00 AM
• Take responsibility for success, Shaka Smart tells students

  To get to the Final Four, you first have to get to college.

  11/28/2011 12:15 AM
• Army veteran seeks help for her six children

  On Tuesday, Jennifer Morman, an Army veteran and a mother of six, will undergo a hysterectomy for a condition that has kept her from working for months.

  11/27/2011 12:00 AM