RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) announced on its official news site that the Board of Visitors had voted on Friday to not require students to take a racial literacy course. The ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Incoming VCU students will likely be tasked with a new set of learning requirements come next fall, but some of the new courses students could choose from to fulfill that requirement ...

When the police killings of Black people, including George Floyd set off racial unrest across the country in 2020, Marie Vergamini decided she wanted to do her part to help address systemic racism. So ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — In a fiery letter to VCU administration, one professor called the decision to indefinitely postpone a campus-wide racism course requirement ‘discriminatory’ and ‘flawed.’ The ...

Two Virginia public universities scrapped plans to require students to complete diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) classes in order to graduate after Gov. Glenn Youngkin's recent audit. Virginia ...

When the police killings of Black people, including George Floyd set off racial unrest across the country in 2020, Marie Vergamini decided she wanted to do her part to help address systemic racism. So ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Missing a department head, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has been unable to offer Jewish Studies courses for the past three semesters. Now, the school told 8News that ...

The Virginia Commonwealth University course on race and racism was born out of the twin traumas of anti-Black police violence and a killer virus. George Floyd had been murdered by a Minneapolis police ...

RICHMOND — Gov. Glenn Youngkin recently requested syllabi from two state universities, a move some faculty called “unprecedented” and reflective of a national trend to challenge academic freedom. Some ...

Faculty members in a Virginia Commonwealth University department that’s supposed to teach new students core skills say the university has proposed laying off about a third of them. “The impact that ...