Transform your experience
VCU Transform is the innovative living-learning program for undergraduate students who want to explore their potential and pave their way to academic and professional successes. The VCU Transform experience will build leadership skills through coursework activities, and a community-focused residential experience in the West Grace North residence hall. Interested students must be residential and have […]
Apply to VCU Lead
VCU LEAD is excited to recruit for our newest class of LEADers! VCU LEAD is a dynamic 2-year living-learning program designed to help students hone their leadership skills and gain real world leadership experience to help them be successful when they transition forward from VCU. VCU LEAD educates students about leadership and facilitates their integrative learning […]
On-Campus Housing
For students who submitted an application for on campus housing for next year, below is a brief outline of the process students will follow to choose their roommates and rooms. Submitting an application for housing, however, does not guarantee a space on campus. Students who submitted an application by the deadline were placed into a […]
VCU Globe: A Living-Learning Program
Employers and graduate programs in every field want candidates who know how to work successfully with people from all over the world. The most successful candidates are those with the proven experience of engaging with the world as it is: an increasingly complex place that is swiftly becoming more interconnected. VCU Globe is a global […]
VCU INNOVATE: A Living-Learning Program
VCU INNOVATE is da Vinci Center’s living-learning program. The da Vinci Center is a unique educational program that brings students from across the university together to collaborate, problem solve and transform their ideas into new products and business ventures. Students learn to apply creativity in innovation and entrepreneurship through real life projects in ways that […]
VCU Lead: A Living-Learning Program
VCU LEAD is a distinguished leadership-focused living-learning program for undergraduate students of sophomore status or above. The VCU LEAD vision is to cultivate world-class innovative leaders who transform lives and impact communities. VCU LEAD participants will integrate their learning through participating in leadership pathways that compliment their major. Pathway experiences can include service, internships, study […]
VCU ASPiRE: A Living-Learning Program
VCU ASPiRE is a living-learning program promoting community engagement through academic coursework and co-curricular experiences. The mission of VCU ASPiRE is to enrich and deepen students’ understanding of their capacity to create positive change in communities and address critical societal needs through long-term sustainable partnerships. The program has an interdisciplinary focus with emphasis on addressing […]
Living Learning Programs
Students who participate in Living Learning Programs (LLPs) are more engaged than students living in traditional residential environments and preliminary data shows that students living and learning together in our established LLPs have a higher retention rate at VCU than those who do not. These LLPs are shared communities that consist of a residential two-year […]
VCU ASPiRE: A Living-Learning Program
VCU ASPiRE is a living-learning program promoting community engagement through academic coursework and co-curricular experiences. The mission of VCU ASPiRE is to enrich and deepen students’ understanding of their capacity to create positive change in communities and address critical societal needs through long-term sustainable partnerships. The program has an interdisciplinary focus with emphasis on addressing […]
VCU INNOVATE: A Living-Learning Program
VCU INNOVATE is da Vinci Center’s living-learning program. The da Vinci Center is a unique educational program that brings students from across the university together to collaborate, problem solve and transform their ideas into new products and business ventures. Students learn to apply creativity in innovation and entrepreneurship through real life projects in ways that prepare […]