BOV update: approved budget for 2019-2020
May 10, 2019 Dear VCU community, At its meeting today, Virginia Commonwealth University’s Board of Visitors approved a $1.3 billion operating budget for the university. The budget prioritizes our commitment to access and excellence by including no increase to base tuition or to education and general (E&G) mandatory fees for undergraduate students for the 2019-2020 […]
VCU budget update
March 21, 2019 Dear VCU community, Today, the Board of Visitors received the university’s proposed budget for 2019-2020, including recommendations for student tuition and fees and employee compensation for the coming academic year. As part of this proposed budget, I have recommended to the Board the following: No increase to tuition for 2019-2020 for undergraduate […]
A Year of Progress and Milestones
Dear VCU community, A warm welcome to the start of a semester filled with milestones, history and progress. This fall, we welcome more than 8,000 new students to Virginia Commonwealth University, including 4,600 first-year students, the largest class in our history. In addition, the first-year class is minority majority at 55%. In all, 31,000 students […]
FY 2019 Budget Update
This budget, while conservative, is appropriate and necessary to operate as a national “R-1” public research university and Virginia Tier 3 institution and in support of our priorities and our public mission.
Our limitless possibility
Dear VCU Community: Fifty years ago, the Wayne Commission report set into motion the establishment of what we now call Virginia Commonwealth University. We remain faithful to the commission’s charge of being a university that “concentrates on meeting the needs of an urban population living and working in an urban environment.” I am proud […]
The many reasons to celebrate Virginia Commonwealth University
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 […]