Category: What’s New @ UMW

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 […]

November Business Services eUpdate

Business Services ChangesBeginning November 5, Business Services will undergo several administrative changes. Erma Baker, Assistant Vice President for Business Services and Chief Procurement Officer, will be leaving the University. Melva Kishpaugh will serve as UMW Interim Director of Procurement. She can be reached by email at mkishpau@umw.edu, or by phone at x1084. Kathy Sandor will […]

Bartram Featured at Mary Talk

The Office of Alumni Relations would like to invite you to join us for the most recent installment of the Mary Talks Series. Mary Talks are lectures and insightful discussions with Mary Washington’s outstanding faculty and administrators.Please join us on Thursday, Nov. 17, for the next installment in the popular new Mary Talks series. This […]

FSEMs go to new African American History Museum

Thirty-two students from six sections of FSEM (Race & Revolution) and Racism and Contemporary American Philosophy visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture  and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Oct 27.  Four faculty accompanied them: Melina Patterson, Suzanne Sumner, Craig Vasey and Wanda Simpkins (James Farmer Post-Doctoral […]