President’s Posts

This week’s post was written in collaboration with Dr. Aashir Nasim. In addition to being a professor and director of iCubed, Dr. Nasim is the Vice President for Inclusive Excellence. It is an honor to share this space with him.   There were five words articulated by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., during the […]

Earlier this week I received recommendations from the Family Representative Council on how to properly memorialize and inter the remains of individuals found in an abandoned well on East Marshall Street in 1994. The remains of people, largely of African and African American descent, would have been lost to time had construction of the Hermes […]

  Dear VCU and VCU Health Communities,   When the Wayne Commission formed Virginia Commonwealth University in 1968, they merged two institutions—the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) and Richmond Professional Institute (RPI)—that had longed focused on serving the public good. In creating VCU, the commission saw an opportunity to join two strong institutions that together could accelerate our public […]

Fighting during World War I ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918. Nov. 11 became known as Armistice Day and was officially commemorated in the United States in 1919. The day of remembrance was renamed Veterans Day in 1954. From the very beginning with our university’s origin […]

As part of National Ethics and Compliance Week, I am sharing with you VCU’s new Code of Conduct for employees.

Dear VCU and VCU Health System Communities,   As we work together to advance our distinctive mission as a nationally premier research university and academic health center, the most important commitment we make is the one we make to each other.  We strive to build an environment in which every one of us can succeed.  […]