Jesse Stommel, senior lecturer in digital studies, was interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled, “Forget Grades and Turnitin. Start Trusting Students.” In it, he talks about his #4wordpedagogy, “Start by trusting students.”“There’s a lot of talk in faculty development about best practices. But every teacher teaches at a different institution, they teach different […]
“Real Women, Real Issues, Real Solutions“Thursday, November 7, 2019, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m University of Mary Washington Stafford CampusFor our 26th Annual Women’s Leadership Colloquium @ UMW, we will encourage you to Be Your Own Hero!Featured is a keynote presentation from dynamic speaker Cosmo Fujiyama. In a world of constant change, what will be […]
The Rappahannock Scholars Program is a proud recipient of a $20,000 AT&T grant that will be used to fund scholarships to a new and revamped summer residential program at UMW in the summer of 2020. The program is designed to provide both enrichment in certain subject areas like science, and also provide students with a […]
The journey to adulthood is a road of peaks and valleys. All of us share the experience of what it means to grow up in an uncertain world, to search and stumble along the path, and to forge our way to a meaningful future. In a refreshingly honest, gorgeously conceived, and exceptionally innovative musical based […]
Six years after graduating from the University of Mary Washington, Sam Carter ’14 still draws daily on some of the lessons she learned as an undergrad.“Everyone has a different cultural experience,” said Carter, a Women’s and Gender Studies major who’s now a digital director for the House Budget Committee majority staff. “It’s important that we […]
