Office of the Provost

Explore VCU’s November Academic Report featuring major updates to Promotion and Tenure policies, faculty honors, student success highlights, and new learning opportunities. See how faculty voice is shaping institutional change and advancing excellence across teaching, scholarship, and service.

Interim Provost Beverly Warren shares VCU’s revised Promotion and Tenure policies, shaped by faculty input and aligned with R1 standards. The video highlights key updates, including protections for teaching excellence and clearer pathways for Term faculty.

VCU Community Engagement: new $5K Data Dissemination Grants, Reading Buddies launch, CERSC cohort, and Health Hub progress—translating faculty research into community impact.

VCU faculty are invited to two open sessions to explore COACHE survey results and next steps. Learn how faculty feedback is shaping institutional priorities, guiding new initiatives, and informing strategic planning across campuses.

Faculty voices are shaping the future of VCU. The COACHE survey results, analyzed by Harvard, offer powerful insights into what’s working and where we can grow. We’re committed to transparency, collaboration, and meaningful action—learn how we’re using this feedback to build a stronger academic community.

Virginia Commonwealth University’s October 2025 Academic Report highlights transformative faculty-led initiatives, national recognition for online learning, and groundbreaking research in health, psychology, and violence prevention. With record-breaking COACHE survey engagement, VCU is advancing interdisciplinary collaboration, inclusive scholarship, and mentorship across career stages.

VCU’s Convergence Labs initiative launches a university-wide effort to foster interdisciplinary research, experiential learning, and community impact. With three enterprise themes—AI, Neurosciences, and Health Outcomes—this signature program reflects VCU’s commitment to innovation, collaboration, and preparing students for the future of work. Led by nationally recognized faculty and supported by hundreds of contributors across campus, Convergence Labs marks a bold shift in how higher education structures discovery and engagement.

VCU’s Division of Community Engagement highlights a season of co-created scholarship, youth development, and civic partnerships. From planning grants to pickleball, this post explores how academic inquiry and community wisdom are building something powerful—together.

VCU celebrates the 2025 NIRA and EPIA honorees — faculty whose scholarship, teaching, and mentorship are shaping lives, advancing knowledge, and strengthening the university’s impact locally and globally.

A University Rooted in Community At VCU, community engagement isn’t just a mission statement—it’s how we show up. In classrooms, clinics, studios, and neighborhoods, our faculty work alongside Richmond’s communities to advance equity, opportunity, and shared learning. This commitment is central to our identity as a public research university, and it’s powered by the belief […]