Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges

One week until Giving Tuesday! The VFIC is honored to be the recipient of a Council of Independent Colleges Scholarship Challenge Grant. This is a unique opportunity to maximize the impact of your generosity. By donating you’ll directly help provide vital scholarship aid for deserving students in need at VFIC’s member colleges and universities. Your support transforms lives by ensuring access to quality higher education. Mark your calendar, spread the word, and be a part of this meaningful challenge! Together, we can make a difference. Give today or on Giving Tuesday (12/3) and be a part of the challenge! https://lnkd.in/gjnuntjy #CICScholarshipChallengeGrant #givingtuesday

As the VFIC is preparing for the 25th Anniversary of the Applied Ethics Bowl, each of our member schools are preparing for the competition as well. Did you know that Virginia Wesleyan University was the champion of the very first competition? Best of luck to all the teams!

Hollins President Mary Dana Hinton has strategically created a limited but effective presence on social media, especially LinkedIn, a recent piece in University Business notes. In it, Hinton offers four bits of advice on how she approaches her online presence.

Our 75th?anniversary celebrations?kick off in January! Events?throughout 2025 will reflect the Marymount spirit, connect the University community and celebrate the progress and achievements of our students, alumni, faculty and staff.?Find out what's in store next year!

Last Thursday evening, VFIC Chairman, William Van Buren, III, Esq., hosted a reception at his office of Kaufman & Canoles, P.C. in Norfolk for VFIC Hampton Roads friends and supporters. Attendees heard remarks from VFIC President Locke Ogens, who shared the organization’s vision to increase scholarship funds for deserving students. Two students from VFIC member schools shared their inspirational education journeys which have led them to achieve more than they imagined possible before college. Hampton University President for Student Success and Enrollment Management Barbara L. Inman, Ed. introduced Nya Bradshaw, who is majoring in aviation management. Virginia Wesleyan University Dean of the Susan S. Goode School of Arts and Humanities Travis Malone, Ph.D. introduced Rowan Stuart, a recent graduate who is pursuing his MBA at Virginia Wesleyan and will enter law school next year.

Randolph College adds three new undergraduate programs for the fall - mechanical engineering, cybersecurity, and cognitive science!

Fifty-two students from Brunswick High School visited Hampton University on Tuesday, November 12 for a campus tour and lunch through the Gear Up Excelencia Campus Tour Program. Each student received a swag bag containing admissions information for all of VFIC’s 17-member colleges and universities. These tours are made possible through a partnership with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Thank you to Hampton University, for sharing your campus with these students!

Yesterday students from Osbourne High School visited Shenandoah University for our second Gear Up Excelencia Campus Tour this week. Forty-eight students received swag bags containing admissions information for all of VFIC’s 17-member colleges and universities. These tours are made possible through a partnership with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Thank you to Shenandoah University, for sharing your campus with these students! Manassas City Public Schools

The VFIC is grateful to all who have served our country. Thank you, Veterans. We salute you, today!

Enjoy a preview of the next chapter in the 2024-25 President to President series from Dr. E. Gordon Gee, President of West Virginia University. His chapter, "Logging On: Lessons from an Academic Transformation," will be available on Nov 14. I've been honored to serve as the executive editor of this series for over 20 years. Enjoy! https://ow.ly/MVoN50U3we9