To the UMW campus community: Greetings. As many of you may know, President Troy Paino created the Campus Environment Presidential Ad Hoc Committee (CE) in September of 2017 and appointed me as chair. The committee was established at the request of the UMW Board of Visitors and from a recommendation by the Diversity and Inclusion […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, delivered an invited lecture at American University in Washington entitled “The Presidential Communication Strategies of Donald Trump.” The talk was drawn from his book, Presidential Communication and Character: White House News Management from Clinton and Cable to Twitter and […]
College of Business Dean Lynne Richardson’s weekly column in The Free Lance-Star discusses the importance of carving out time in your schedule to think. Read TIME TO THINK. LET’S THINK back to our childhoods for a moment. 20If you’re a person of a certain age, say over 40, you grew up in what many might […]
Sushma Subramanian, journalist and assistant professor in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, has published a story in The Atlantic about an emerging form of depression in Japan, colloquially called “modern-type depression.” In her piece, she explores the work of Japanese scientists studying the social changes that have contributed to this condition: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/10/modern-type-depression-japan/600160/.
College of Education Dean Pete Kelly was interviewed for a Free Lance-Star article entitled “Spotsylvania Future Educators Academy hopes to empower students to meet the teacher shortage.” It describes a new program launched in Spotsylvania County Public Schools this year that gives students from all five Spotsylvania high schools the opportunity to learn more about […]
