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The Student-Centered University: A Survey Of Peer Institutions, The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute At Virginia Commonwealth University, Nancy Buchanan, Mohamed Gad-El-Hak, Mary Ann Hager, Sally Hunnicut, Bridget Lyons, Matt Woolman

The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute Publications

Virginia Commonwealth University is a public institution of higher education located in a large urban setting. During the last two decades, the university has experienced rapid growth in student enrollment, faculty size, and physical plant. The university's recent successes are in no small part due to a visionary president who now declares that becoming a student-centered is a top priority during the remaining years of his tenure. In the past, VCU was known as a commuter college, where a large portion of the student body lives off campus and may attend school part-time. As VCU aspires to become one of …

The Vcu Health Careers Pipeline, The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute At Virginia Commonwealth University, Sheryl Garland, Bob Neale, Nancy New, Janis Ober, Seth Sykes

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The VCU Health Careers Pipeline is a proposal for linking and enhancing existing outreach, academic and mentoring programs on both campuses. The goal of the proposed pipeline is to increase the number of disadvantaged students from the Richmond area who successñllly graduate with a VCU health care degree and obtain employment in the VCU Health System.

We propose the hiring of a filll-time director who will collaborate with VCU programs and community initiatives to ensure the success of the program. This director will coordinate the outreach programs currently conducted by VCU departments that introduce health careers to local elementary, middle …

Promoting Vcu Community Solutions, The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute At Virginia Commonwealth University, Carlos Brown, Jeff Green, Carolyn Henne, Evelyn Reed-Victor, Cynthia Schmidt, Amy Unger

The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute Publications

This promotional project focuses on VCU Community Solutions — the new interdisciplinary initiative for education, research, and service. Since this initiative demonstrates the synergy that students, faculty, and community members can create by working together, the promotional video captures their perspectives. Through interviews and footage of community programs, the video shows how VCU Community Solutions engages university and community partners in addressing critical social issues — creating more imovative approaches by working together.

Making Connections Through A Virtual Community, The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute At Virginia Commonwealth University, Joe Borzelleca, Joy Bressler, Deborah Brock, Nell Chennault, Jason Noble

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We feel there is a need for opportunities for clinical and administrative faculties to connect with students in a way that can fit into the very busy schedules of both students and faculty/staff. Our plan is to use the Student Portal currently being developed by the Office of Academic Technology. There, one click would connect students to faculty/staff profiles where the student could query topics of interest and then email selected faculty and staff. To start the process, volunteer faculty and staff would create a profile of their professional and personal interests. The student would access database through a key-word …