College of William and Mary News

This detailed cartouche from the 1751 Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia and Maryland illustrates the close links between tobacco, slavery and trade in the Chesapeake during the early 1700s.

With the Department of Veterans Affairs seemingly hopelessly behind on processing benefits claims, the College of William and Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law is stepping in to help.

Twelve Alma College students have been selected for membership in Phi Beta Kappa, America's oldest and most prestigious scholastic honorary society.

The benefits of excelling during the first year of law school are many. A student can become a stronger candidate for internships and walk into the second year with extra confidence.

Traveling over the Memorial Day weekend has become a tradition, and so it is with the Virginia Arts Festival , which takes a trip of its own.

Broken up into two topics, one of the week-long courses will review "Antebellum Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction" on June 17th-21st and July 22nd-26th and the second will examine "Lincoln, Davis, Grant, and Lee: The Last Year of the Civil War," the week of July 15th-19th and August 5th-9th. Each institute will be conducted on the Pamplin ... (more)

When high school senior Jenny Bonilla got her college acceptance letter in March, she felt shock and heartbreak rather than joy.

Jamie Bartlett, associate professor of music at the College of William and Mary, will participate in the Williamsburg Choral Guild's Summer Sings Actress Sally Struthers plays the irrepressible Dolly Levi in a touring production of "Hello, Dolly!" coming to the Ferguson Center for the Arts in November.

As Bridgewater College's graduating seniors and their families celebrated in Nininger Hall on Saturday, Virginia Supreme Court Justice and Harrisonburg native William C. Mims urged the 301 graduates to remember society's "timeless virtues" and to build meaningful lives.

Rosemary Willis , Miss Virginia 2012, looks on as Victoria Evonna-Blair "Blair" Oakley, the 2013 Miss Roanoke Outstanding Preteen, speaks about bullying Thursday at Patrick Henry Elementary School.

Maryland's state universities announced that in-state undergraduate tuition would rise by 3 percent, the same amount as the past three years.

WILLIAMSBURG Reports of hazing and humiliation have shut down a long-standing fraternity and launched a criminal investigation at the College of William and Mary.

Sen. Mark Warner is pressing his case for law schools across the country to follow a "playbook" developed at the College of William and Mary to reduce the nation's backlog of veteran disability claims.

According to Professor Ikem Stanley Okoye , University of Delaware, "there has been no scholarly work that explores African landscapes that doesn't somehow implicate the Europeans." That statement may be less true given a recent conference on cultural landscapes in Sub-Saharan Africa at Dumbarton Oaks .

Veterans have a problem that law schools could aid. Around 825,000 applications for disability compensation are backlogged, waiting more than 125 days for the VA to decide if they should receive disability.

FBI Director Robert Mueller addressed the College of William and Mary's class of 2013 in his commencement speech May 12.

When Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian-born economist, wrote in her book Dead Aid that traditional aid from Western donors had largely failed African countries, fostering dependency, encouraging corruption and perpetuating poor governance and poverty, she said China provided another approach and gave Africans the ability to choose their own way to develop.

Kathleen Bieschke will become the new department head for the Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education Department in the College of Education at Penn State on July 1. In her new role, Bieschke will oversee two undergraduate, four master's, and four doctoral programs for the college.

We begin our online symposium on Margaret Radin 'sbook, Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights and the Rule of Law with five posts this week.

WILLIAMSBURG Amid references to integrity, service and Lady Gaga, the College of William and Mary on Sunday conferred degrees to more than 1,900 students at William and Mary Hall.