Taylor Blount ‘26 has always loved to talk. Even from an early age, she said, people would comment on her gregarious nature.
The Longwood University Board of Visitors voted Thursday to approve modest tuition and fee increases for 2025-26, extending the University’s decade-long record of keeping cost increases among the very lowest of all public universities in the Commonwealth.
Kosei Cuyler ’26 put Longwood on the national stage when he recently placed first in his division at the 2025 National Collegiate and High School Sport Judo Championships, hosted by the National Collegiate Judo Association (NCJA).
It wasn’t a television show, but Longwood’s recent “Shark Tank”-style competition for aspiring student entrepreneurs definitely had the bite of reality.
The worlds of Kassidy Owens ’25 and Mattie Smith ’25 are about to collide—and the two newly minted Longwood graduates couldn’t be more delighted.
Over the weekend, Longwood recognized a total of 1,047 degrees, as graduates heard from two distinguished speakers with deep ties to Virginia and to the nation’s approaching 250th anniversary.
The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) was named the Best Art Gallery in Central Virginia by Virginia Living magazine’s “Best of Virginia 2025” issue published in early May.
Zach Stephens ’26 was sitting in the San Antonio airport returning from a family trip earlier this year when he had a lightbulb moment and the name for his entrepreneurship class project hit him.
Longwood University students Ryan Urban ‘26 and Quinn Kukk ‘27 have been selected to participate in highly competitive undergraduate research programs this summer through the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Five years after the Covid crisis in higher education, two things are clear. Longwood handled things differently then—and is better for it today.