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The University Uprooted a Black Neighborhood. Then Its Policies Reduced the Black Presence on Campus.

December 22, 2023 Guest User

A portrait of Trible and his wife hangs in the library named after them. Photo by Christopher Tyree // VCIJ at WHRO

Black enrollment at Virginia’s Christopher Newport University fell by more than half under longtime president Paul Trible, a former Republican senator who wanted to “offer a private school experience.” By 2021, only 2.4% of full-time professors were Black.

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In Education, Social Justice, State Government, politics Tags Christopher Newport University, College, eminent domain

Virginia Voices // Education in the time of Covid

August 28, 2020 Chris Tyree
Eliana Nachman, 18, at her home in Henrico. Nachman is starting her freshmen year at Mary Washington University -- but she doesn't think the experience will be the same without in-person classes and living on campus.

Eliana Nachman, 18, at her home in Henrico. Nachman is starting her freshmen year at Mary Washington University -- but she doesn't think the experience will be the same without in-person classes and living on campus.

Eliana Nachman, 18, is a recent graduate of Hermitage High School in Henrico, VA, and has been accepted to Mary Washington University this fall, where classes start on Aug. 24.

The university initially planned a hybrid of online and in-person instruction to minimize the risk of spreading the coronavirus. But as infections grew, the university announced on Aug. 13 that classes would be entirely online until at least mid-September.

The pandemic has upended a year full of promise for Nachman and her friends: “I was hoping it would kind of be all wrapped up by August. I guess I was just being naive.”

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In Education Tags Covid, College, teen

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