Virginia529 reconsiders College Savings Program amid rising costs
The state agency that administers the Virginia 529 college savings plan is considering changes to its signature prePAID (VPEP) plan amid rising tuition costs and year-after-year decreases in state funding for higher education. The program currently allows families to pay in advance to lock in college tuition and assessed fees at any 4-year or 2-year […]
VCU PD works to better serve and protect LGBTQ+ students
The VCU Police Department held an open forum with members of the LGBT community on Aug. 24 to spread awareness about safety precautions for students and receive feedback on changes the department made to better protect LGBT students. Donna Coghill, a member of VCU PD’s LGBTQ+ Safety Advisory Committee, said the goal of the forum […]
VCU welcomes largest freshman class in history
Plans to navigate the Monroe Park Campus by vehicle this weekend likely went to the wayside as swaths of freshmen moving into the dorms shut down multiple streets on campus and a lane of the Belvidere exit from Interstate-64. That’s because VCU greeted its largest-ever freshman class with 4,200 new students, up from 4,090 in […]
Students discuss student loans, tuition with state senators
Students had the chance to meet their representatives last week when State Senators Glen Sturtevant (R-Richmond) and Lamont Bagby (D-Charles City) visited VCU to take questions regarding student loans. Sturtevant, the 33-year-old senator who represents VCU’s district, graduated from the George Mason University School of Law in 2006 and said he is currently paying back […]
Continuing the quest for diversity
On what seemed to be a typical fall Wednesday at Virginia Commonwealth University, a group of dozens of students gathered in the Compass, just between the Cabell Library and Shafer Dining Court, to voice concerns over the university’s diversity and inclusion agenda. Many students at that gathering held signs intended to display solidarity with students […]