The University of Mary Washington today announced that Lynne D. Richardson will be dean of the school’s College of Business.
The Masonic Lodge riverfront property that the Fredericksburg Economic Development Authority plans to buy could someday provide a home for the University of Mary Washington rowing program.
GWEN IFILL: Fifty years ago this month, a group of young men and women boarded commercial buses in Washington, D.C., headed for the Deep South. The 13 members of the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, led by James Farmer, planned a
deliberate, but nonviolent challenge to the Jim Crow laws in the Southern states.
Admissions Deans Feel Crunched by the Numbers; http://chronicle.com
Once upon a time, May was not so manic. Although admissions officers have long fretted about enrollment outcomes, they used to fret under fewer microscopes. Application totals were more predictable. Enrollment projections were more reliable. And newspapers had yet to turn the admissions cycle into an annual tally of percentages and prestige.
Hotel Incentive Package Approved; http://fredericksburg.patch.com
The Fredericksburg City Council approved an incentive package worth up to $310,000 for the development of a hotel next to the University of Mary Washington‘s Eagle Village. The motion passed by a vote of 5-1, with Ward Three Councilor Fred Howe voting against the measure, saying that it was a misuse of the incentive program.
http://fredericksburg.patch.com/articles/hotel-incentive-package-approved