Provost’s Monthly Academic Report (Nov. 2025)
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.
VCU Accelerates Community Impact: $5K Grants, New CERSC Cohort, and Reading Buddies Launch
VCU Community Engagement: new $5K Data Dissemination Grants, Reading Buddies launch, CERSC cohort, and Health Hub progress—translating faculty research into community impact.
Provost’s Monthly Academic Report (Oct. 2025)
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.
Convergence Labs: Launching VCU’s Next Horizon
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.
Building Together: Community Voices, Academic Impact
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.
Together, We Begin
A welcome message from the VCU Provost celebrating the start of the 2025 academic year, highlighting new interdisciplinary initiatives, student success strategies, and the university’s enduring culture of care.
VCU Division of Community Engagement Head Promoted to Vice Provost
Maghboeba Mosavel, Ph.D., the current head of VCU’s Division of Community Engagement is being promoted to vice provost, effective immediately, said Fotis Sotiropoulos, Ph.D., VCU’s Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. “Dr. Mosavel has done an outstanding job of both reorganizing and energizing VCU’s Community Engagement team after it was moved into the […]
Learnings from the Carnegie Community Engaged University Reclassification Self-Study
VCU has a complete draft of the Carnegie Community Engaged University Reclassification Self-Study report. It has been a tremendous effort across the campus. We want to take this opportunity to recognize what we have accomplished and share highlights of what we have learned. The ProcessOver the past year, we conducted two unit-level surveys and one […]
Carnegie Community Engaged University Reclassification – Meeting the Standards We Set for Ourselves
VCU defines community engagement as “The collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in the context of partnership and reciprocity. It can involve partnerships and coalitions that help mobilize resources and influence systems and serve as catalysts for initiating and/or changing policies, programs, […]
The Community Engagement landscape: initial results from the Carnegie Community Engaged University self-study
VCU was one of the first universities in the nation to receive the Carnegie Community Engaged University Classification in 2005, and one of very few R1 institutions. We earned reclassification in 2015, and are in the midst of reclassifying for the designation now. One of the reasons we do this is to keep growing – […]
