Featured News & EventsCreativity expert to speak as Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, March 27
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Campus ActivitiesThe ninth annual Civil War Seminar, co-sponsored by the Department of History and Political Science, will be held Saturday, March 1, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Orr Auditorium (Hull 132). This year’s seminar will focus on “Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln.” The seminar, which is free (no registration is required), is co-sponsored with Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. For more information, phone Dr. David Coles, associate professor of history, at 395-2220, or Patrick Schroeder at (434) 352-8987, extension 32. The last film in the February French Film Festival, Poison Friends, will be shown Monday, March 3, at 7 p.m. in Lankford Ballroom. The film has been called “steeped in shrewdness about the often contradictory workings of human nature” and “gratifying in the best tradition of French cinema.” To see all Campus Activities, click here. |
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LCVA Events The documentary film Kamp Katrina will be shown March 5 at 7 p.m. in the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts lower level, as part of the General Education Film Series. The film follows the stressful lives of 10 people displaced by Hurricane Katrina who are allowed to live in the backyard of a New Orleans couple. The film has been called “a story of hope, community, generosity, rebirth and failure.” To see all LCVA Events, click here. |
Faculty News Dr. Lee Bidwell, Professor of Sociology, recently received Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) designation from the National Council on Family Relations. The CFLE credential recognizes professionals in the family field with a proven background and knowledge in 10 content areas deemed essential to family life education. This is the only international program to certify family life educators. To see all Faculty news, click here. |
Richmond Retail Merchants Association president & CEO to be Executive-in-Residence, March 4
William H. Baxter, president and CEO of the Retail Merchants Association (RMA), will be the Executive-in-Residence speaker Tuesday, March 4, at 7 p.m. in Hiner Auditorium. Baxter, who will speak on “No One Really Needs What We Are Selling,” has been in his position for 15 years. Under his leadership, the Richmond-based RMA has grown from a “local” retail trade association representing greater Richmond to a regional organization directly servicing more than half of Virginia’s retail business community. Previously he worked for Thalhimers Department Stores for 27 years, beginning as a trainee and ending as senior vice president responsible for store operations and budgets for 27 department store branches in four states with 3,700 employees.
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