News
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Longwood announces president’s and dean’s lists for fall 2018
February 15, 2019
Longwood is proud to recognize more than 1,000 students named to the Dean’s List and President’s List for the 2018 fall semester.
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Excellence of Longwood’s admissions materials recognized in regional competition
February 08, 2019
Several of Longwood’s primary admissions publications were recognized for their outstanding quality in print design and editorial excellence by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District III.
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Virginia Children’s Book Festival author, illustrator take home top literary prizes
February 06, 2019
Two Virginia Children’s Book Festival mainstays took home the most coveted awards in children’s literature this year: the Caldecott and Newbery Honors.
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Longwood’s 2019 spring theatre season begins with laughs, ends with music
February 04, 2019
It’s a spring filled with screwball comedy that will leave audiences erupting in laughter and a musical revue that will take theater-goers around the world at Longwood.
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Civil War Symposium marks 20th year at Longwood
February 01, 2019
It’s been 154 years since the end of the Civil War, but the accounts of post-war discovery continue to inspire and capture our imagination.
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Spring music calendar features inspirational scores, Grammy-winning performers
January 28, 2019
The Longwood music department’s spring calendar of events once again provides a unique lineup of performances that will delight music lovers across the heart of Virginia.
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Washington Post Journalist Sydney Trent to give MLK Week keynote address
January 14, 2019
The goddaughter of local civil rights heroine Barbara Johns will return to Farmville this month to mark Longwood’s annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Longwood Police again ranked among the best in the country
January 11, 2019
For an unprecedented ninth-straight year, Longwood’s police department has been ranked among the best university security operations in the country and as the top-ranked department among Virginia colleges and universities.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Frank Bidart to speak at Longwood
January 08, 2019
One of the most celebrated contemporary poets in America, whose turbulent works often use variations in form and punctuation to underscore physical and emotional turmoil, will anchor the Longwood Authors Series in an unmissable lecture this spring.
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Freshmen coaching groups find success in trial run
January 03, 2019
Jaelon Hariston is one of the students in Clint Wright’s first-year coaching group—an innovative new approach to helping freshmen acclimate to college life that Longwood introduced and piloted in the fall semester.