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Longwood University
LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY
MISSION
To transform capable men
and women into citizen leaders, fully engaged in the world around them.
Approved by the Board of
Visitors
March 24, 2007
(Pending approval of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia)
VISION
Longwood University will
be a first-choice institution renowned for developing the power of citizen
leadership in its students for the benefit of the greater community.
Approved by the Board of
Visitors
June 15, 2007
LOCATION
Longwood University is
located in historic Farmville, Virginia -- 65 miles west of Richmond and
Petersburg, 48 miles east of Lynchburg, and 60 miles south of Charlottesville.
U.S. Highways 15 and 460 intersect in town. Commercial bus systems provide
service to the town.
Farmville is a growing college town with a population of 7,000; it is the
business and education center of the area. Located in and near town are
churches, hotels, motels, a country club, a municipal airport, and a community
hospital. Hampden-Sydney College, a liberal arts college for men, is five miles
south of the campus. Many points of historic interest are within a short
distance of Farmville, including Appomattox Courthouse and National Historical
Park, Sailors Creek Battlefield State Park, Bear Creek Lake State Park, Twin
Lakes State Park, Holliday Lake State Park, and the National D-Day Memorial in
Bedford. The nationally known Lee’s Retreat Civil War Trail and the new Civil
Rights in Education Heritage Trail pass through Farmville.
HISTORY
Longwood University, a
pioneer first in private and later in public education, is one of the oldest
institutions of higher learning in the United States. It was founded on March 5,
1839 when the Farmville Female Seminary Association was incorporated by the
General Assembly of Virginia.
In the succeeding years the increasing prosperity of the Farmville Female
Seminary led the stock holders to expand the seminary into a college, and the
Farmville Female College was incorporated in 1860. On April 7, 1884, the State
of Virginia acquired the property of the Farmville Female College, and in
October of the same year the Normal School opened with 110 students enrolled.
This was the first state institution of higher learning for women in Virginia.
With the passage of the years, the Normal School expanded its curriculum
and progressed through a succession of names. It became the State Normal School
for Women in 1914, the State Teachers College at Farmville in 1924, Longwood
College in 1949, and Longwood University in 2002. Longwood became fully
coeducational in June 1976. The University became NCAA Division I on September
1, 2007.
Longwood was first authorized to offer a four-year curriculum leading to
the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education in 1916. It was authorized to
offer the Bachelor of Arts in 1935, the Bachelor of Science in 1938, a
curriculum in business education the same year, courses leading to a degree in
music education in 1949, and the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
in 1976. In 1978, Longwood was authorized to offer the Bachelor of Fine Arts,
and in 1981, the Bachelor of Music. In 1954, graduate programs were authorized.
CAMPUS
The campus of Longwood
University has seen dramatic improvements over the past few years with the
completion of major construction and campus beautification projects. Brock
Commons, a beautiful pedestrian promenade named after benefactors Macon and Joan
Brock (Class of 1964), was officially opened on April 24, 2004. Brock Commons
has become the central focal point for Longwood, uniting the campus community
around a safe, pedestrian-friendly environment, while creating an outdoor,
collegial ambiance for students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
Near the center of Brock Commons is the two-story, 60,000 square foot
Dorrill Dining Hall, located across from the Lankford Student Union. This
multi-purpose facility, with its curved, colonnaded portico overlooking Iler
Field, is the first on campus to utilize geothermal heating and cooling. The
flexible interior design provides space for banquets, meetings, and special
events along with a Grand Dining Room seating 500 and an arcade seating an
additional 700.
Adjacent to Brock Commons are broad lawns, five NCAA tennis courts, four
athletic fields, and numerous late-20th century buildings, including the
Greenwood Library, the Lankford Student Union, residence halls, and various
academic facilities. The campus has six auditoriums ranging in size from 150
seats to 1,227.
Willett Hall is a health, physical education, and recreation complex
located on Brock Commons. It has a newly-renovated gymnasium with 1,720 seats; a
complete weight-training laboratory; a 25-meter pool with a one-meter board,
underwater lighting, and observation window; a 350-seat natatorium; a modern
dance studio with a floating floor and staging capacity; and one of the state's
best-equipped laboratories for the study of human performance as it relates to
exercise, sports, health, and the arts. A 3,000-square foot addition to Willett
Hall will house a new Sports Medicine/Rehabilitation facility for the Heath
Recreation and Kinesiology programs.
Lancaster Hall houses the President’s Office and the offices of
Administration and Finance, University Advancement, and Student Affairs, which
includes financial aid, housing, the Career Center, and the ID center.
Longwood’s signature building, Ruffner Hall with its beautiful Rotunda,
was rededicated on April 23, 2005 and replicates the university’s most beloved
building, dating to the 1880’s, which burned on April 24, 2001 while undergoing
a $12 million renovation. The original eight paintings on the interior of the
Rotunda dome, created in 1905 by the Italian-born artist Eugene D. Monfalcone of
Richmond, have been returned to the dome following an extensive restoration that
was underway prior to the fire. The historic Joan of Arc statue, known
affectionately as “Joanie on the Stony” was also restored recently and returned
to its place of honor on the main floor beneath the Rotunda. The
bigger-than-life sculpture is a reproduction of the famous 1870 original created
by French sculptor Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu. The statue was a gift of the
Class of 1914 and symbolizes Joan of Arc as the patron saint of Longwood.
Ruffner Hall was reconstructed in the classic style based on the original
blueprints and drawings from the state archives in Richmond. The 83,143 square
foot building houses 22 classrooms, four academic departments, the offices of
the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Deans of Graduate
and Extended Studies and the Cook-Cole College of Arts and Sciences.
A new four-story Science Center opened on December 6, 2005. The 70,822
square foot facility includes 23 classrooms and laboratories, 47 faculty offices
and additional research space for both undergraduate and graduate research
projects. The new building, which was named in 2007 in honor of John H. and
Karen Williams Chichester, class of 1974, features a state-of-the-art,
climate-controlled environment, with safety ventilation systems and hazardous
materials safeguards along with a high-tech infrastructure for classrooms,
laboratories, and distance learning facilities. A greenhouse and herbarium,
housing the world’s largest collection of Virginia plant specimens, are located
on the roof.
A new, multi-faceted Health and Fitness Center opened in August 2007.
Located on Main Street, adjacent to Frazer Residence Hall, the 74,683 square
foot, two-and-a-half story facility, features a wide range of amenities
including an indoor track, basketball and racquetball courts, a climbing wall,
work-out rooms, juice bar, and the latest weight, exercise and training
equipment.
Nearly 1,000 students reside among three campus-managed apartment
communities – Longwood Landings at Mid-Town Square, Longwood Village, and Lancer
Village. Some of the amenities and features of the apartments are: private
bedrooms (some with private bathes), full kitchens (most with dishwashers),
washer/dryer units, large living areas, high–speed Internet, and cable
television. Two of the three communities have fitness rooms and swimming pools
and one has a hot tub, a tanning bed, and a game room.
Longwood Landings at Mid-Town Square, which opened in August 2006, is a
residential village that includes four four-story buildings with the top three
floors dedicated to student housing and the ground floor devoted to leased
retail space. Longwood students occupy 96 four-bedroom and 24 single-room
apartments. Retailers include Barnes & Noble, which operates Longwood’s
bookstore and includes a Starbucks Café.
Not far from campus, students can enjoy the facilities at Longwood Estate,
which feature a new complex of athletic fields for field hockey, lacrosse, and
soccer, along with a nine-hole golf course. The President's home, Longwood
House, is situated on the Estate.
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY AND
RESOURCES
The Greenwood Library,
occupied in 1991 and conveniently located near the center of the campus, is open
for use 91 hours each week during regular sessions. Entry off Brock Commons is
through a two-story atrium, which facilitates visual orientation to each of the
major service points of the Library. The Library collections offer 270,400
cataloged titles. The Library currently subscribes to 1,700 journals and has
access to 23,000 electronic journals. Some 720,000 microform units, 13,000
DVD’s/videos and 3,800 CD’s supplement the book and journal collections.
Students/faculty have access to over 150 periodical/information databases via
the Web and additional resources from other libraries through its Interlibrary
Loan Department. Access to and control of its collections are through the
Library’s online catalog and circulation system, which can be consulted from any
point on the campus network or the Internet. The Library’s Information Center,
with 54 workstations, complements the Library’s collections by providing users
access to electronic information found throughout the Internet and by making
selected information more accessible through the Library’s World Wide Web
offerings. To aid users in finding information expeditiously and in gaining
expertise for information literacy, the Library provides a variety of reference
services, including individual reference assistance, chat and e-mail reference,
and group bibliographic instruction.
THE UNIVERSITY YEAR
The university year
consists of a regular session, including two semesters of 15 weeks each, a
winter intersession, and a summer session. The summer session consists of three
terms. Both undergraduate and graduate classes during the summer are scheduled
for four and five days a week or in several non-traditional time frames.
ACCREDITATION
AND MEMBERSHIPS
Longwood University is
accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097, telephone number
404-679-4501) to award bachelor’s and master’s degrees; the National Council for
Accreditation of Teacher Education; the Virginia State Board of Education; the
Music Program by the National Association of Schools of Music; the undergraduate
Social Work Program by the Council on Social Work Education; the undergraduate
Therapeutic Recreation Program by the National Recreation and Park Association
in cooperation with the American Association for Leisure and Recreation; the
Business Administration Program by AACSB - International, the Association to
Advance Collegiate Schools of Business; and the undergraduate Theatre Program by
the National Association of Schools of Theatre. Accreditation documents may be
viewed during normal business hours in the Office of Academic Affairs. The new
program in Communication Sciences and Disorders has been awarded candidacy
status by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
The University is a member of the Association of American Colleges; the
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education; the American Library
Association; the Association of Virginia Colleges; the Virginia Association of
Colleges for Teacher Education; and the Council of Graduate Schools.
graduate studies at
longwood university
Graduate instruction
began at Longwood in the summer of 1952 as a cooperative program with the
University of Virginia. This arrangement allowed the College to offer courses,
mostly in elementary education, to be transferred to the University of Virginia
for credit toward the Master of Education degree.
The College proposed to the State Board of Education of Virginia a
graduate program leading to the Master of Arts and Master of Science degrees in
1954. The College was authorized to grant master's degrees beginning in August
1955, and awarded its first graduate degree in August 1956. The MBA degree was
authorized beginning in August 2006.
The legacy that began in 1839 continues today as Longwood offers small
classes, personal attention, and a meaningful learning environment to over 3,700
undergraduate and 1200 graduate students.
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Longwood University
offers graduate programs leading to the degree of Master of Science in three
majors – Communication Sciences & Disorders, Education and Sociology, the degree
of Master of Arts in English, and the Master of Business Administration. In the
Education major, areas of concentration include Community and College
Counseling, Curriculum and Instruction Specialist in Elementary Education,
Curriculum and Instruction Specialist in K-8 Mathematics, Curriculum and
Instruction Specialist in LD EB/D and Mild MR, Curriculum and Instruction
Specialist in Modern Languages, Curriculum and Instruction Specialist in Music;
Educational Leadership, Guidance and Counseling, Literacy and Culture, and
School Library Media. In the English major, areas of concentration include
Creative Writing, Literature, and English Education and Writing. In the
Sociology major, the area of concentration is Criminal Justice. In the Business
Administration major, the areas of concentration are Accounting, General
Business, and Retail Management.
In addition, the University offers a graduate degree with initial
licensure programs. These programs are in Elementary Education PreK-6, Special
Education PreK-12, English 6-12, Modern Languages/ESL (French, German, Spanish
and English as a Second Language) PreK-12, and School Library Media PreK-12.
Graduate Licensure only programs leading to additional endorsements to an
existing full professional license are available in Educational Leadership,
Reading Specialist or School Library Media.
The graduate program is designed to provide capable students with
opportunities for individual inquiry in a variety of fields, to prepare
qualified individuals for professional leadership roles, to be the next step in
the educational pursuit of an advanced degree, and to integrate technology
throughout the learning process. Longwood University is pledged to a policy of
nondiscrimination that applies to all phases of university life.
THE MISSION OF GRADUATE
STUDIES AT LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY
• To convey advanced
knowledge in specified fields of study.
• To provide enhanced levels of professional competence in specific
disciplines.
• To foster an understanding of and competence in scholarly research.
• To bolster a sense of personal and professional accomplishment in graduate
studies.
• To inculcate in graduate students a sophisticated appreciation of continued
lifelong intellectual growth.
• To enhance the application and utilization of advanced study for the
benefit of society.
These often-interrelated
goals are achieved through coherent well-planned programs of study encompassing
scholarly investigation, faculty mentoring and supervised practical experiences.
As part of the mission of a comprehensive institution of higher education
supported by public funds, Longwood University is committed to serving the needs
of the Commonwealth of Virginia and particularly the Southside and Central
Virginia regions. Graduate programs at Longwood support the continuation and
development of diverse, innovative programs by building on existing strengths
and emerging opportunities.
Longwood graduate programs encourage students to develop strengths in
critical and creative thinking, communications, and applied skills. A balanced
combination of theoretical and practical studies in each academic program is
intended to prepare the successful graduate for advancement in the workplace,
future educational opportunities, informed participation in today’s increasingly
complex society and leadership in community affairs.
OFF-CAMPUS
Offerings
Graduate classes are
regularly offered at off-campus locations. A variety of non-traditional course
formats are used to meet the needs of the adult student including weekends and
nights. All Longwood graduate rules and regulations govern these courses.
Registration takes place in the Registration Office by regular mail, by fax, or
online using myLongwood.com.
An entire degree program may be provided at an off-campus location if
there is sufficient interest. Individual classes may be delivered upon request.
Both of the above require class enrollments to meet the minimum size
requirement.
CURRENT OFF-CAMPUS
LOCATIONS
1. The Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy (CVCJA) is the site
for the Master’s program in Sociology/Criminal Justice. Located in downtown
Lynchburg, Virginia, the complete program is offered here by Longwood
University. For schedules, registration materials or general information,
contact the Office of Graduate Studies at 434.395.2707, 877.267.7883 (toll
free), or e-mail at graduate@longwood.edu.
2. The Longwood Powhatan Center is located at Powhatan County High
School, 1800 Judes Ferry Road. Graduate education courses for a degree,
licensure renewal or personal enrichment are offered. For schedules,
registration materials or general information, please call the Center at
804.598.5710, ext. 307 or contact the Office of Graduate Studies at
434.395.2707, 877.267.7883 (toll free) or e-mail at graduate@longwood.edu.
3. The Longwood Retail University is the site for the MBA program.
Located at the Retail Merchants Association, 5101 Monument Avenue, Richmond, VA
23230, the complete program is offered at this site. For schedules,
registration materials or general information, please contact the Office of
Graduate Studies at 434.395.2707, 877.267.7883 (toll free), or e-mail at
graduate@longwood.edu.
4. The Southern Virginia Higher Education Center (HEC) is located in
South Boston, Virginia and offers complete graduate programs in Education as
well as individual courses for licensure renewal or personal enrichment. For
schedules, registration materials or general information, please call the HEC at
434.572.5446 or 1.800.283.0098 or contact the Office of Graduate Studies at
434.395.2707, 877.267.7883 (toll free), or e-mail at graduate@longwood.edu.
5. Graduate classes are also available online via the Internet. For
schedules, registration materials and general information, go to http//:
www.longwood.edu/online or call 434.395.2707 or 877.267.7883 (toll free) or
email graduate@longwood.edu.
TUITION RATE
Waivers FOR ALL VIRGINIA TEACHERS
Special arrangement
contracts may be made to waive the difference between out-of-state and in-state
tuition rates to all Virginia school teachers whose employers will pay their
tuition and fees. Teachers who live out-of-state or have moved into Virginia
within the last year should notify Longwood of that fact at the time of class
registration so that a special arrangement contract can be made with the school
division in which the teacher is employed.
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