Elearning offers several ways for faculty to educate beyond Blacksburg
April 2, 2009
Virginia Tech has increased eLearning enrollments to nearly 18,000 students this spring in almost 700 eLearning credit course offerings.
Content on Academic Guide 2009:
Mental health concerns alter FERPA rules
April 2, 2009
With relatively easy access to information at unseen levels with today's ever-increasing level of technology, universities including Virginia Tech work to protect the rights and information of students.
Liberal education serves as strong learning foundation
April 2, 2009
Regardless of major, all students work to include the final curriculum for liberal education courses necessary to graduate.
Newman Library seeks support for improvements with research universities
April 2, 2009
As one of the nation's top engineering, architecture, business, science and research universities, Virginia Tech fails to standout for having a noteworthy research library.
Separate academic support open to students, athletes
April 2, 2009
Across campus, there are several resources available to help Virginia Tech students through a variety of personal or academic problems.
New degree programs face university, SCHEV approval
April 2, 2009
Any proposals for new majors must satisfy several fundamental requirements long before they are even considered, much less implemented.
Potential courses must prove their worth to many
April 2, 2009
Virginia Tech offers about 4,000 courses in scores of undergraduate degrees every semester, and this summer, Virginia Tech will add 15 new courses to its undergraduate and graduate students.
Through STS, science joins forces with philosophy
April 2, 2009
Questioning the value or usefulness of science may be the closest thing the modern world has to heresy.
With impending budget cuts, retirement plays a role
April 2, 2009
A quarter of Virginia Tech's tenured faculty members are over the age of 60, and with budget cuts looming, the university must take a careful approach to faculty management.
Faculty and students raise awareness, glasses at The Cellar
April 2, 2009
After spotting a recent edition of the Collegiate Times that featured two different articles on its front page, one about library budget cuts and the other about a project to expand the gym, sociology graduate students Gary Wood, JP Mason, and Tugrul Kesk