Education

Backed by a massive fundraising campaign, the university is getting started on a new welcome center and office hub designed to become the new front door of campus.

VCU’s Brandcenter doesn’t throw your average career fair. Graduating students had the recruiters coming to them at this year’s two-day recruitment session.

The university is teaming up with the Greater Richmond Partnership – with guidance from the Brookings Institution and JPMorgan Chase – to further study and develop the area’s export market.

After almost a year since the university’s current president announced his departure, the school has named a new leader – its first black president and a classical cellist.

The head of an all-girls high school in Richmond is stepping down after 10 years on the job.

A recent list of the 2012 incomes of private university presidents shows that Virginia schools pay above the national average. And the outgoing head of University of Richmond is at the top of the state list, raking in $1 million in 2012.

Two Washington, D.C., entrepreneurs have chosen Short Pump as the next destination for their children’s language immersion school.

VCU has reinvented a former printing office to house a meeting space for an interdisciplinary program.

A local university has opened its first new dorm building in nearly 50 years, a $17 million project aimed at accommodating a growing student body.

Jeter and Thomas halls, built around 1914, are closed this year as they are renovated into suite-style accommodations that can house about 170 students, she said. Work is scheduled to be completed in time for the fall 2015 semester.