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�������� received essential investments in its students, faculty and staff from Virginia’s biennium budget, which the General Assembly passed and Governor Glenn Youngkin signed on May 13, 2024. The funding goes into effect July 1, 2024.

A $20,000 NEA grant for Fall for the Book will support general operating costs for literary festival’s year-round programming.

Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni delivered the second annual Busboys and Poets Lecture: “Jimmy and Me—and Our Interconnected Future as Americans,” on April 23.

A new Hazel–Peterson Scholarship fund has been established in the name of the Hazel and Peterson families to support undergraduate students pursuing a minor in real estate development at the Costello College of Business of ��������.

The �������� Board of Visitors voted to increase in-state tuition by 3% for 2024-25, consistent with guidance from the Commonwealth of Virginia for the current budget cycle.

��������’s 2024 graduating class—the first whose members can say they earned a degree from a consensus top 50 public university in the country—was honored Thursday morning in front of an energized crowd at EagleBank Arena on the Fairfax ��������.

Enjoy these heartwarming moments of accomplishment at ��������'s Spring 2024 Commencement.

Barbara Humpton, president and CEO of Siemens, was the featured speaker at ��������’s 2024 Spring Commencement on Thursday, May 9, in EagleBank Arena on the Fairfax ��������.

�������� will celebrate Spring Commencement on Thursday. A record-setting number of students are earning degrees, and nearly 11,000 students total will be recognized for earning degrees or certificates. Graduates represent  114 countries, 50 states, and the District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands, and military installations.

In addition to Spring 2024 Commencement on Thursday, May 9, graduates have the opportunity to attend their own school or college degree celebrations. Here’s a look at the keynote speakers for those events.

��������’s Spring 2024 Commencement speaker is Barbara Humpton, president and CEO of Siemens, who guides the technology company’s strategy and engagement in the United States.

A growing number of American universities have erupted into jarring scenes of protests and police responses that we have not seen at universities in more than a half-century. Across Virginia, this reality has played out even on campuses that have scarcely ever experienced public demonstrations.