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Virginia State University (VSU or Virginia State) is a public historically Black land-grant university in Ettrick, Virginia. Founded on March 6, 1882 ( 1882-03-06 ) , Virginia State developed as the United States's first fully state-supported four-year institution of higher learning for Black Americans.
This is a list of colleges and universities in the U.S. state of Virginia. The oldest college or university in Virginia is The College of William and Mary , founded in 1693. In 2010, the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine became the newest.
In 1970, the state legislature allowed VPI university status and gave it the present legal name, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In the early 1990s, university administration authorized the official use of Virginia Tech as equivalent to the full legal name, officially adopting a nickname dating to the 1910s.
After months of planning, Virginia State University is out of the new debate schedule determined by the candidates. The university would have been the first HBCU to hold a presidential forum.
The Greater Richmond Region is a region and metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Virginia, centered on Richmond, the state capital.The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) defines the area as the Richmond, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area, a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) used by the U.S. Census Bureau and other entities.
Vawter Hall and the Old President's House are two of the oldest buildings at Virginia State University, the oldest state-supported college for blacks in the United States. Vawter Hall was built and named in 1908 in honor of the school's late rector and authority on industrial training, Charles E. Vawter.
A Virginia State University police officer was in stable condition Sunday after being critically wounded in a shooting near campus, university officials said. The shooting happened at about 1:30 a ...
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