President’s Posts

This holiday season, I am reminded of the many reasons to celebrate Virginia Commonwealth University. This fall, my faculty colleagues broke institutional records for research and creative activity for the ninth time in the last 10 years, topping $275 million and helping us land among the nation’s top 100 research universities. That is according to […]

As vital members of the VCU family, please make time to join with alumni — from throughout the entire university, all eras of our history — to celebrate together.

My commitment to VCU remains—as always—resolute and focused on the continued success of students, faculty and staff. I am proud of how we face challenges with tenacity and creativity. Our willingness to do so is what makes VCU a premier research university.

  Since 2011, when we launched the Quest for Distinction strategic plan, Virginia Commonwealth University has been on a journey to become one of the nation’s premier urban, public research universities. Thanks to the talent, vision and investment of so many, we have indeed become a more-relevant research university for the 21st century. It is […]

Rodney the Ram rides in the 2015 VCU Homecoming parade. The institution that would become Virginia Commonwealth University began in 1838 in the old Union Hotel, at Main and 19th streets in downtown Richmond. Its founding filled a great need: Even though it was the nation’s third-largest state at that time, Virginia had only one […]

Since 2011, when we launched the Quest for Distinction strategic plan, Virginia Commonwealth University has been on a journey to become one of the nation’s premier urban, public research universities. Thanks to the talent and vision of you — our dedicated faculty and staff — and the philanthropic support of our alumni and friends, we […]