Virginia Commonwealth University
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| Established: | 1838 |
| Type: | Public university |
| Endowment: | US $410.3 million[1] |
| President: | Eugene P. Trani |
| Provost: | Stephen D. Gottfredson |
| Faculty: | 2,813 |
| Staff: | 16,696 |
| Students: | 31,907 |
| Undergraduates: | 22,159 |
| Postgraduates: | 9,748 |
| Location: |  Richmond, Virginia, USA |
| Campus: | Urban, Monroe Park Campus - 88.2 acres (35.7 ha), MCV Campus - 52.4 acres (21.2 ha). |
| Colors: | Black and Gold |
| Nickname: | Rams |
| Mascot: | Rodney the Ram |
| Athletics: | NCAA Division I, CAA, 16 varsity teams |
| Website: | www.vcu.edu |
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Virginia Commonwealth University, or VCU, is a large public American research university with its main campuses located in downtown Richmond, Virginia. Particularly recognized for its nationally ranked art, social work, health administration, and medical degree programs, VCU is the largest university in Virginia with almost 32,000 students enrolled in the fall semester of 2007.[2] It is one of four Virginia universities rated RU/H: Research Universities (high research activity) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
Formed by a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968, VCU has a medical school that is home to the nation's oldest organ transplant program.[3] VCU is host to the annual VCU French Film Festival, the largest French film festival in the United States.[4][5]
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[edit] History
Though officially created with the merger of the Richmond Professional Institute (RPI) and Medical College of Virginia (MCV) in 1968, VCU's history stretches back to 1838, when MCV first opened its doors as the medical department of Hampden-Sydney College. VCU recognizes the latter date on its official seal and promotional materials. RPI traces its roots back to 1917, when it began as the Richmond School of Social Work.
[edit] Timeline
- 1838 - The Medical Department of Hampden-Sydney College opens in Richmond
- 1844 - The Medical Department moves into its first permanent home, the Egyptian Building
- 1854 - The Medical Department of Hampden-Sydney College receives an independent charter from the Virginia General Assembly and becomes the Medical College of Virginia (MCV)
- 1860 - In return for a $30,000 appropriation MCV conveys all its property to the Commonwealth of Virginia and becomes a state institution
- 1893 - College of Physicians and Surgeons, later University College of Medicine, was established by Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire just three blocks away from MCV
- 1912 - McGuire Hall opens as the new home of the University College of Medicine
- 1913 - MCV and UCM merged through the efforts of Dr. George Ben Johnston and Dr. Stuart McGuire. MCV acquired the Memorial Hospital as a result of the merger
- 1917 - Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health established
- 1925 - Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health becomes the Richmond division of the College of William and Mary
- 1939 - Richmond division of William and Mary becomes the "Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William and Mary" (RPI)
- 1947 - MCV Foundation is incorporated.
- 1962 - RPI separates from William and Mary to become an independent state institution.
- 1968 - The first heart transplant at the Medical College of Virginia is performed by Dr. Richard R. Lower. This was only the 9th such operation performed in the United States, and the 16th in the world.
- 1968 - State legislation merges MCV and RPI to become Virginia Commonwealth University. MCV retains the right to use its name.
- 2000 - VCU Health System authority is established.
- 2001 - Spring- Inger and Walter Rice Center for Environmental Life Science opened. It includes a 70 acre lake, pine and hardwood forests. In the Summer the Eugene P. and Lois E. Trani Center for Life Science was opened. It features an extensive greenhouse, 18 laboratories for research in genetics to systems biology, and is home to the Bioinformatics program.
- 2004 - The name VCU Medical Center is adopted to refer to MCV Hospitals and VCU's medical schools, and the VCU Academic Campus is renamed the VCU Monroe Park Campus.
- 2006 - VCU grew to become the most populated university in Virginia and the state's first to have 30,000 students
[edit] Expansion
More recently the university has focused on what it calls life sciences as an avenue of future expansion, with the 2001 opening of the Lois E. and Eugene P. Trani Life Sciences Building. Construction has begun on a Monroe Park Campus Extension, which will include the second phase of the School of Engineering building and a new home for the School of Business. There will also be a new dormitory facility along with retail development.
VCU has developed a strategic plan for the future dubbed "VCU 2020." Among its major goals is the creation of a collegiate community promoting student engagement and the campus environment. On the Monroe Park Campus, in addition to the expansion east of Belvidere St, this long range plan includes the renovation and expansion of Cabell Library, dubbed the "Information Commons", academic expansions along Linden St. and on the Harris Hall lawn, parking facilities near Grace and Belvidere, Greek housing along W. Grace St, improvements to Monroe Park, and numerous other projects. The Medical Campus can expect a new School of Allied Health Professions, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, VCUHS Bed Tower, and other projects.
The university has expanded rapidly in recent years, with construction focused mainly along the Broad Street corridor. The school is approximately 70 percent off-campus resident and 30 percent on-campus resident, with new residence hall Brandt Hall having opened in August 2005. RAMZ Hall opened in mid-January 2005, seven months behind schedule after a fire destroyed most of the still-under-construction building in March of 2004. The Shafer Court Dining Center and Phase III construction and renovation of the University Student Commons were completed in 2004. A complete renovation of the Hibbs Building, the oldest of the major academic buildings and former dining hall, was completed in Fall 2006. The Ackell Residence Center (formerly known as West Broad Street Student Apartments) was opened in 2001 across the street from the West Broad Parking Deck, e2 (pronounced "e-squared") Bookstore and VCU Welcome Center that were completed in 1998. 1998 also saw the opening of a new School of the Arts Building, also on Broad Street.
West Grace Street Student Housing is home to the University Honors Program and honors housing with single one-person rooms. Formerly the Capital Medical Center, the university purchased and converted the building in 1998. The building was once also home VCU OccuHealth Alliance, part of the VCU Health System.
Part of the $228 million East Monroe park expansion is the newly dedicated Snead Hall, Located on Belvedere (Route 1) and Main St. Snead Hall is a 145,000-square-foot (13,500 m²) facility which will house all the School of Business and Phase II of the School of Engineering. The building will open January 14, 2008 and facilitate classes and offices for the Spring 2008 Semester and beyond. Snead Hall has its own dedicated parking (located on Jefferson St.), student commons, café, and career center. The former School of Business building was rededicated as Grace E. Harris Hall and will serve the Spring 2008 Semester as a general academics building. [6] [7][8]
[edit] Campuses and grounds
VCU has two main campuses in Richmond: the Monroe Park Campus and the Medical College of Virginia Campus. VCUarts also has a branch campus in Education City, Qatar. Informally, the campuses are known respectively as the "academic campus," "medical campus," and " VCUQatar ."
[edit] Monroe Park Campus
- The Pollak Building, is named after Theresa Pollak, who founded the School of the Arts at VCU when it was the Richmond Professional Institute. Pollak was one of Virginia's more famous artists and who is often credited with bringing modern art to Richmond.
- The Ginter House at 901 West Franklin Street, the main administrative building on the Monroe Park Campus. It is named for cigarette magnate Major Lewis Ginter (1824-1897), one of Virginia’s wealthiest men who was responsible for developing Richmond’s Ginter Park neighborhood and commissioning the Jefferson Hotel.
Home to most of VCU's general education facilities, the Monroe Park Campus is located at the eastern end of the Fan district, a historic neighborhood built adjacent to downtown Richmond in the early 20th century. The Monroe Park Campus begins at Monroe Park on North Belvidere Street and continues west to Harrison Street. Most buildings are located on or between West Broad Street and West Cary Street. Originally home to the Richmond Professional Institute and then the Academic Campus of VCU in 1968, the Monroe Park Campus took on its current name in June 2004. This campus blends the old and new; while it encompasses over 40 buildings older than 1900, new and renovated buildings abound. VCU is currently expanding this campus eastward into Richmond's Monroe Ward.
Some of the notable buildings in Monroe park are:
- University Student Commons
- Stuart C. Siegel Center
- Sports Medicine Building
- James Branch Cabell Library
- West Engineering Building - School of Engineering
- T. Edward Temple Building - General Academics, Mass Communications
- Snead Hall - School of Business
- East Engineering - School of Engineering Phase II
- Grace E. Harris Hall - General Academics
- Oliver Hall - School of Education, Physical Sciences
- School of the Arts Building
- Hibbs Hall - College of Humanities & Sciences
- Shafer Court Dining Center
- Pollak Building - VCUarts
- Trani Life Sciences Building
The housing apartments include:
- West Grace Street Student Housing (Honors)
- Ackell Residence Center
- RAMZ Hall
- Brandt Hall
- Rhoads Hall
- Broad & Belvidere Apartments
- Capital Garage Apartments
- Johnson Hall
- Gladding Residence Center (I,II & III)
[edit] MCV Campus
The Medical College of Virginia Campus is home to the Health Sciences Division of VCU. This includes the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Allied Health, Nursing, a recently established School of Public Health, and the MCV Hospitals, which is the major component of the VCU Health System. The Campus is also home to the Massey Cancer Center (an NCI-designated Cancer Center). The MCV Campus is an integral part of Richmond, located adjacent to the city’s business and financial district near the state capitol.
The notable buildings in the MCV campus are:
- Main hospital
- Gateway Building
- Egyptian Building
- Massey Cancer Center
- Sanger Hall
- Lyons Building
- Wood Memorial Building
- Tompkins-McCaw Library
- Hunton Student Center
- Larrick Student Center
- West Hospital
The housing facilities include:
- Cabaniss Hall
- Bear Hall
- McRae Hall
- Warner Hall
- Rudd Hall
[edit] Libraries
The VCU Libraries is the third largest research library in Virginia. Together the libraries hold more than 1.7 million print volumes, 3 million microforms, 10,200 digital and print serials, access to 10,000 additional digital titles, and more than 30,000 multimedia titles. The Tompkins-McCaw Library has the largest medical collection in the state which provides electronic access to the latest in life sciences information and research. Cabell Library houses one of the largest book art collections in the Southeast and the largest popular culture and comic art collections in the state.
The VCU Libraries is the only patent and trademark depository in Virginia and has particular strengths in medicine, science, engineering and information technology. Both libraries provide hundreds of computer workstations located throughout the buildings as well as off-campus access from residence halls and home to all computerized resources.
[edit] Housing
Rhoads, Johnson and Brandt halls are the largest freshman communities on campus. Together they house approximately 1,870 students. These halls are set up for coeducational living with each floor designated for female or male students only. Brandt Hall is the newest residence hall facility on campus and houses 640 students, with floors reserved for freshmen and selected suites reserved for honors students. The West Grace Street Honors Residential College is adjacent to Rhoads and Johnson. It houses male and female freshman honors students in single rooms. The Gladding Residence Center suites offer a more independent living option for freshmen in a community with upper-level students. Cabaniss Hall at the VCU Medical Center is a freshman community especially of interest to students in the life and health sciences.
Upper-class students may choose to live in Ackell Residence Center, Capital Garage Apartments, GRC Apartments or RAMZ Hall.
[edit] Dining
Undergraduate students living in a university residence hall (not students living in university apartments), are required to choose a residential dining plan. VCU Dining Services offers block plans at 200-, 250- and 300- meal levels with additional Dining Dollars added. Block plans allow a specific number of meals to be used over an entire semester. These unlimited-serving meals are served in the Shafer Court Dining Center and the Larrick Dining Center. Dining dollars allow students the opportunity to purchase tax-free meals at any VCU retail restaurant. Commuter students and students living off campus have the option of purchasing a nonresidential dining plan.
[edit] Academics
[edit] Programs
VCU offers Baccalaureate, Master's and Doctoral degrees, as well as Professional and Certificate courses. A complete degree inventory is available from the Web site of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.
Over 40 of VCU's programs are unique to Virginia, such as the Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness major in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, as well as the Real Estate and Urban Land Development degree in VCU's School of Business. The university also offers a wide range of study options with more than 170 certificate, undergraduate, graduate, professional and doctoral degrees in the arts, sciences and humanities in fifteen different schools of discipline.
In addition to its undergraduate and graduate degree programs, as well as its honors program, VCU now hosts the Illustration Academy.
The university's medical campus provides students with several opportunities for postgraduate study at VCU. This has led to the development of "guaranteed admission programs," whereunder select incoming undergraduates are guaranteed a spot in a variety of professional schools so long as a high academic standard is maintained throughout their undergraduate studies. Schools with such a program include medicine, physical therapy, dentistry, pharmacy and others.
An accelerated program in the School of Education offers a combined undergraduate, teaching certificate and master's degree in five years.
[edit] Rankings
VCU holds a number of national rankings, US News & World Report graduate rankings include:
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Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts (VCUarts) is ranked the #1 public university school of arts and design in the country (#4 among public & private institutions) by U.S. News & World Report (2009). VCUarts is the only public university arts and design school in the country to ever be ranked this high in overall ranking.
VCUarts Department of Interior Design graduate program is ranked as the #4 Interior Design graduate program in the south (regional schools) and #6 (national/ regional schools) by DesignIntelligence 2008 America's Best Architecture & Design Schools. The undergraduate program is ranked #5 (regional schools). VCUarts Department of Interior Design has been ranked as one of the top five programs in the country by Interior Design Magazine (1996).
The VCU Brandcenter, the School of Mass Communication’s graduate program in advertising, has also been ranked 1st in the nation by Creativity Magazine and as one of the top 60 design schools in the world by BusinessWeek.[11]
VCU’s Masters of Health Administration program was ranked second by Modern Healthcare. The University's Health System earned national Magnet nursing designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and has twice been named one of the Solucient Top 100 Hospitals in the U.S. by Solucient Corporation. In research the school has been ranked as a top American university by Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance and a top 100 university by the National Science Foundation. Campusdirt.com lists the University as one of the 10 most diverse student bodies in America.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities conducted in 2005 by the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranks VCU in the top 100 universities in North & Latin America and one of the top 200 universities in the world.[12]
The VCU Counseling Psychology Graduate Program was ranked 3rd in the nation in the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index in 2007.[13]
[edit] Faculty
Notable faculty members include analytical chemist Dr. John B. Fenn, who in 2002 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to the field of mass spectrometry, and Religious Studies professor Amina Wadud, who caused controversy in 2005 by leading an Islamic prayer service of men and women.
In the medical field, VCU has had four professors elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Institute of Medicine, most recently Dr. Steven Woolf in 2001.[14] Historically, notable faculty members include Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, M.D., for whom Brown-Séquard syndrome is named. Hunter McGuire, M.D., was the Confederate surgeon for General Thomas J. Jackson before he founded the University College of Medicine which later merged with MCV where he became the Chairman of Surgery. The Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center is named in his honor.
Dr. Jennifer Johnson's (Professor of Sociology) work at the Department of Defense in the area of Social Network Analysis won her the 2006 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Distinguished Civilian Service Award, which is the highest-ranking civilian service award given by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Dr. Johnson was also awarded the 2004 Analyst of the Quarter by the Joint Warfare Analysis Center for her work on the Social Network Analysis Methodology Team.
[edit] Schools and departments
- College of Humanities & Sciences[15]
- School of Mass Communications[16]
- School of World Studies[17]
- L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs[18]
- School of Allied Health Professions[19]
- School of the Arts
- School of Business[20]
- School of Dentistry
- School of Education
- School of Engineering
- School of Medicine[21]
- School of Nursing[22]
- School of Pharmacy[23]
- School of Social Work[24]
[edit] Athletics
VCU currently sponsors sixteen varsity teams in NCAA Division I play through the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). These teams include basketball, baseball, volleyball, soccer, tennis, golf, field hockey, track and field, and cross country. VCU's mascot is Rodney the Ram, and the teams as well as students are called VCU Rams.
VCU also has many student run club teams. These sports not sponsored by the university include baseball, men's[25] and women's[26] rugby union, ice hockey,[27] ultimate[28] and men's and women's lacrosse. Previous club sports have also included rowing, wrestling, tennis, and cycling. VCU does not support a football team. The current university president, Eugene P. Trani, has been quoted as saying that he will not allow football to come to VCU under his watch due to the extra incurred cost.[29] VCU does not currently have a stadium that would be suitable for hosting football-related events.
[edit] Facilities
- The Diamond
- Baseball
- Alltel Pavilion at the Stuart C. Siegel Center
- Basketball
- Volleyball
- Cheerleading
- Sports Backers Stadium
- Soccer
- Track and Field
- Cary Street Field
- Field Hockey
- Thalhimer Tennis Center
- Leigh Street Field
- Men's and Women's Rugby
[edit] Organizations
VCU has numerous student organizations, including the Black Awakening Choir which won first place in the 2005 Baptist Student Union National Choir Competition in Atlanta, GA. Also, 2007 is the first year that STRUT has become an official organization at VCU. STRUT is an annual fashion show that has grown into a week long celebration on campus. In addition, VCU boasts a well-established net of ethnic and cultural organizations such as the African Student Union (ASU), Ethiopian students Union (ESU),Latino Student Association, Queer Action and the Vietnamese Student Association, among many others. Similarly, VCU offers a variety of religious organizations, such as Aletheia Campus Organization, Muslim Student Association, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Catholic Campus Ministry, Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship house, BSU, Hillel @ VCU, and Lotus Buddhist Group. VCU also has one of the most active student, pep-club organizations in the Rowdy Rams. VCU also offers many different special interest organizations such as the (S.H.H.O.) Student Hip-Hop Organization, which allows students to network with VCU’s thriving hip-hop community and to utilize hip-hop as a tool for creating unity within this vibrant culture on campus.
VCU's Greek system has grown particularly rapidly in the last few years, with expansions within the Interfraternity Council and among multicultural organizations. Alpha Kappa Lambda, Delta Chi, Delta Phi Omega, Theta Chi, Pi Lambda Phi, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Beta Rho, Delta Phi Omega, Lambda Upsilon Lambda, Kappa Phi Gamma, Sigma Lambda Upsilon and alpha Kappa Delta Phi have all chartered on campus since 2007.
[edit] Student government associations
There are two student government associations at VCU, one for each campus.[30] According to the Monroe Park Campus SGA Web site, it "serves as the unifying voice for all students to members of Virginia Commonwealth University administration, faculty, staff, and the Board of Visitors as well as to the City of Richmond." It is the stated goal of the SGA "to represent the concerns and interests of all students to the various groups that have an influence on student life," and it "oversees more than 200 student organizations."[31]
[edit] Student media
VCU's media organizations fall under the jurisdiction of the VCU Student Media Commission. Organizations include news journals The Commonwealth Times and The Vine, radio station WVCW, and literary journals Amendment and Poictesme. [32]
[edit] Controversy
VCU's research integrity has recently been called into question with the disclosure of a restrictive agreement with Philip Morris USA, signed in 2006. [1] The New York Times obtained a copy of the contract under the Virginia Freedom of Information law.
The contract prohibits VCU scientists from disclosing their performing research for Philip Morris. Furthermore, they are prohibited from publishing their studies without Philip Morris approval. VCU may be the only school in the country to allow the tobacco industry such control over its studies and ability even to disclose a potential conflict of interest. Why VCU was willing to sign such an agreement -- given that grants related to the agreement total less than one percent of the school total research grants -- is unclear.
The controversy came at a time when nondisclosure of ties to interested parties in medical journal research papers was gaining media attention, including pharmaceutical companies ghostwriting articles for the researchers. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
[edit] Notable alumni
Health and medicine
- Hunter "Patch" Adams, M.D. - Founder of the Gesundheit! Institute and subject of the movie Patch Adams.
- Baruj Benacerraf, M.D. - Winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
- Saul Krugman, M.D. - A medical researcher who discovered a vaccine against hepatitis B.
Media
- Wiley Miller - American cartoonist and author of the comic strip Non Sequitur.
- Tom Robbins - American author, best known for his novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976).
- David Baldacci - American author, best known for his novel Absolute Power (1996).
- Stephen Furst - American Actor and Director, best known as "Flounder" in the National Lampoon classic Animal House (1978) as well as TV series St. Elsewhere and Babylon 5.
- Robert Lanham - American author, best known for his book The Hipster Handbook (2003).
- Boris Kodjoe - Austrian-born model (Ford Modeling), actor (Soul Food: The Series, Madea's Family Reunion)
- Debbie Matenopoulos - American TV host, best known for co-hosting ABC's The View, The Daily 10, and TV Guide Channel's The Screening Room.
- Robb Spewak - Producer and radio personality for The Don and Mike Show.
- Zachary Knighton - Actor, starred most recently in The Hitcher.
- Bruce Cunningham - Baltimore sportscaster
- Jodi Weatherton - MTV Road Rules cast member
Sports
- Sean Marshall - Starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs.
- Brandon Inge - Third baseman for the Detroit Tigers.
- Gerald Henderson - Played for the Boston Celtics, Detroit Pistons, Seattle SuperSonics, and the San Antonio Spurs winning 4 NBA Championships.
- John Rollins - American professional golfer and PGA Pro.
- Cla Meredith - Currently one of the pitchers for the San Diego Padres.
- Gonzalo Segares - Current Defender for the Chicago Fire in the MLS
- Dominic Oduro - Current Forward for FC Dallas in the MLS
Art
- Sam Beam - Musician, Iron and Wine.
- Philip B. Meggs - historian of design.
- Randy Blythe- Lead Singer for Lamb of God
- Willie Adler- Guitarist for Lamb of God.
- Mark Morton - Lead guitarist of the metal band Lamb of God.
- Chris Adler - Drummer for Lamb of God.
- John Campbell (bassist) - Bassist for Lamb of God.
- Stefan Lessard - Bassist for Dave Matthews Band.
- GWAR - Several founding members of the band.
- Melvin Johnson - Co-founder of JuiceBox Productions.
- Jason Butler Harner - Broadway Actor, performed in original production of Coast of Utopia.
- Andrea Detwiler - 2006 Daytime Emmy Winner.[33]
- Donwan Harrell - founder of the New York-based urban clothing company, Akademiks.[34]
- Pamela Armstrong, opera singer
Other
- Grace Harris - Civil rights activist and one of the first three African American faculty members hired by VCU.
- Ron Tillett - Former Treasurer of Virginia, Secretary of Finance for Virginia.
- Nancy C. Everett - CEO of General Motors Asset Management Corp. and its U.S. subsidiaries.
- John C. Neal - CEO of Union Bank and Trust Company
- Dick Robertson - President of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.[35]
- Robert Wittman - Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing Virginia's 1st congressional district
[edit] References
- ^ Thanks to you!. Retrieved on 2007-09-27.
- ^ Fall Headcount Enrollments. State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
- ^ Profile: Richmond Virginia (PDF). Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
- ^ Shannon O’Neill (2005-03-30). The Reel Deal: Two April film festivals keep Richmonders in the dark.. Style Weekly. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
- ^ Kate Connolly. Film festival to draw large crowd at Byrd Theatre. The Collegian. Retrieved on 2007-04-17.
- ^ VCU News Center – VCU Dedicates Grace E. Harris Hall
- ^ VCU School of Business New Building Plan - VCU
- ^ =http://www.news.vcu.edu/news.aspx?v=detail&nid=2317
- ^ The most recent ranking of dental schools was completed by U.S. News and World Report in 1993. To see the position of the ADA and ADEA on ranking visit: http://www.ada.org/prof/ed/programs/information.asp#rankings
- ^ The most recent ranking of graduate programs in creative writing was completed by U.S. News and World Report in 1997.
- ^ Adcenter Named Top Design School by Businessweek Retrieved on 2007-11-18
- ^ Academic Ranking of World Universities Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Retrieved on 2007-05-04
- ^ “The Chronicle of Higher Education.” January 12, 2007
- ^ VCU News Center – VCU professor recognized by institute of medicine
- ^ VCU College of Humanities & Sciences
- ^ VCU School of Mass Communications
- ^ VCU - School of World Studies
- ^ VCU :: L Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs
- ^ VCU - School of Allied Health Professions
- ^ VCU School of Business
- ^ VCU School of Medicine
- ^ VCU School of Nursing
- ^ VCU School of Pharmacy
- ^ VCU School of Social Work
- ^ http://www.studentorg.vcu.edu/mensrugbyvcu
- ^ Ram Rugby
- ^ VCU Ice Hockey
- ^ VCU Ultimate: Beware of the biscuits
- ^ http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/....
- ^ Vcu - Sga
- ^ Vcu Sga
- ^ VCU Student Media Center
- ^ http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/....
- ^ http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/....
- ^ VCU Foundation
[edit] External links
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