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Tag: Gov. Ralph Northam
News Roundup
Former Liberty U Diversity Director Raises Money to Help Black Employees Leave Institution
After resigning earlier this month, LeeQuan McLaurin, the former director of diversity retention at Liberty University, has raised over $18,000 to help Black employees leave the institution, reports to the News and Advance. McLaurin’s resignation came after Liberty President Jerry Falwell Jr. used Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s blackface scandal in a tweet to mock the […]
June 26, 2020
News Roundup
Black Professor at Liberty U Online Resigns After Falwell Jr.’s ‘Racist’ Tweets
A Black professor at Liberty University Online, Christopher A. House, resigned on Thursday after what he said were racist tweets by Jerry Falwell Jr., president of the Virginia-based Liberty University. House is also a tenured associate professor at Ithaca College. Falwell Jr. on Wednesday posted a tweet decrying Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s order that said […]
May 29, 2020
Community Colleges
Virginia Governor Releases Free Community College Plan
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam proposed a plan to make community college free for residents from low- or middle-income backgrounds going into particular fields with skilled labor shortages in Virginia.
December 15, 2019
News Roundup
NEA, VEA Call for VA Gov. Ralph Northam’s Resignation
Two education organizations have called for the resignation of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam after a 1984 yearbook photo surfaced showing a man in Blackface and another individual wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood. The image was one of several provided on Northam’s Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook page published in 1984. Several politicians […]
February 4, 2019
News Roundup
Governor Appoints State Superintendent of Public Instruction
RICHMOND, Va.— The superintendent of Virginia’s fifth-largest school system has been appointed state superintendent of public instruction. News outlets report James Lane was appointed Thursday by Gov. Ralph Northam, who said Lane’s experience as superintendent, school administrator and teacher has given him “deep grounding” in education. Lane has been superintendent of Chesterfield County Public Schools […]
May 25, 2018
News Roundup
Charles Steger, Former Virginia Tech President, Dies at 70
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Tech President Charles Steger Jr., who led the institution through a period of great change and faced both criticism and praise for his leadership during a 2007 mass shooting, has died, the university announced Monday. He was 70. Steger, a Virginia Tech graduate who spent most of his professional […]
May 8, 2018
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