The first days and weeks of college can be among the most stressful for freshmen. Hundreds of questions remain to be answered: Will I make friends?
Is it harder to make it as a woman writer? Yes. Is it harder to make it as a person of color? Yes.
During the 2017-18 academic year, more than 600 Longwood students were hard at work studying everything from the morphology of bacterial magnetic crystals to Andrew Jackson and the nullification crisis.
In 2015, Longwood unveiled a new comprehensive campus Master Plan for the coming decade.
Longwood’s long-anticipated Upchurch University Center is nearing completion, with the grand opening set for Oct. 26.
Around the turn of the 20th century, popular Longwood English professor J.M. Grainger suggested that Joan of Arc, the 15th-century French heroine, would be a good choice as an inspirational figure for students.
Longwood has received a $15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to host an NEA Big Read in Farmville and Prince Edward County next year.
Longwood’s 2018 Day of Giving exceeded its goal of 1,790 gifts by more than 65 percent.
Find an issue you are passionate about, volunteer on a campaign or for a candidate you believe in, become an active leader in the local community and read a lot of books.
This is the first book in the Emerging Revolutionary War Series, cofounded by Orrison.