Author: Erika Spivey

Stop Hunger Food Drive Launch

Campus Dining, UMW athletes, and the Staff Advisory Council (SAC) are joining forces to collect food for the Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank as part of Sodexo’s annual Stop Hunger campaign. Last year’s drive brought in 8,278 pounds of food for distribution to area residents and helped our UMW athletes win their conference food drive competition.SAC is conducting the annual […]

Holiday Dinner Volunteers Needed

Campus Dining will soon be hosting our annual Thanksgiving Dinner, Winter Holiday Dinner, and Midnight Breakfast events, and we are in great need of volunteer servers! All members of our campus community, friends and neighbors are invited to join our merry bands of volunteers!The Thanksgiving Dinner is November 17 from 4 to 8 p.m. and the Winter Holiday […]

Farnsworth Lectures in Norway on U.S. Presidential Election

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered a lecture titled “Digital Media, Public Opinion and the U.S. Presidential Race,” at BI University in Oslo, Norway. While in Norway, Dr. Farnsworth also delivered a lecture titled “Three Challenges and Three Opportunities for Donald Trump […]

Admissions Office Events in November

The Admissions Office is hosting several events in November and you’re welcome to participate! Evening on-site admissions events will be held on Thursday, November 10 at Cambria Hotels & Suites in Rockville, MD and on Thursday, November 17 at the Cultural Arts Center in Glen Allen, Va.  Prospective seniors and their families are invited to […]

Head Start Gift Box Drive

The Head Start Gift Box Drive is a drive UMW Community Outreach and Resources (COAR) holds every year. Our goal is to provide items for kids in the Head Start programs of Fredericksburg, Stafford, and Spotsylvania. We provide children in the program with a hat, gloves or mittens, a scarf, a toothbrush, toothpaste, a coloring […]