News
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Longwood comm studies major has front-row pressroom seat as Governor’s Fellow
June 09, 2025
Taylor Blount ‘26 has always loved to talk. Even from an early age, she said, people would comment on her gregarious nature.
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Longwood continues to limit tuition increases
June 06, 2025
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.
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Longwood kinesiology student wins national judo championship
May 29, 2025
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).
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Student entrepreneurs swim with the ‘sharks’ in competition offering $1,000 in prize money
May 22, 2025
It wasn’t a television show, but Longwood’s recent “Shark Tank”-style competition for aspiring student entrepreneurs definitely had the bite of reality.
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Two 2025 graduates to share Lancer connection in prestigious forensic science graduate program
May 22, 2025
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.
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Commencement speakers inspire Class of 2025 to serve the common good as nation’s 250th birthday nears
May 17, 2025
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.
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Longwood Center for the Visual Arts named Best Art Gallery in Central Virginia
May 09, 2025
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.
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Entrepreneurship, ideas come to life for Longwood students at new SEED Innovation Hub
May 01, 2025
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.
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Two Longwood students headed to Switzerland and England for prestigious science research programs
April 29, 2025
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).
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Standing Fast
April 28, 2025
Five years after the Covid crisis in higher education, two things are clear. Longwood handled things differently then—and is better for it today.