I
announced during my State of the University Address the establishment
of University College of Virginia Wesleyan University. University College operates all
for-credit programs outside of the traditional undergraduate program and
also supports non-credit, continuing-education offerings.
Programs
include VWU Online, Evening and Weekend, Advanced Scholars, Early
Enrollment, Dual Credit, the Robert F. Boyd Institute, the American Culture
and Tourism Management Internship Program at Busch Gardens, the Center for the Study of
Religious Freedom, the Center for Sacred Music, the Lifelong Learning
Institute with Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay, and
opportunities through the VFIC
Language Exchange and the Virginia Tidewater Consortium for Higher
Education.
University College will be an important source of
enrollment, will expand our presence in the higher-education market, and
will coordinate planning and promotion of future educational
opportunities in the increasingly popular non-traditional market. It
will not be an auxiliary enterprise; rather, it will be a fully
integrated unit of our curriculum.
Provost and Vice President Timothy O’Rourke is
fine tuning the organizational structure, and leadership of the program
will be announced in the near future. For more information, visit our
website at www.vwu.edu/universitycollege.
