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Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college named Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, Virginia Tech is now a comprehensive, innovative research university with the largest full-time student population in Virginia. Through a combination of its three missions of learning, discovery, and engagement, Virginia Tech continually strives to accomplish the charge of its motto: Ut Prosim (That I May Serve).
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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Judge approves $11 million for Virginia tech victims families
- 2008-08-01
A RICHMOND, VA., CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE APPROVED AN $11 MILLION SETTLEMENT WITH families of 24 out of the 32 deceased victims in last year's Virginia Tech tragedy, avoiding a court battle over whether anyone but Seung-Hui Cho was responsible for the shootings. Under its terms, the Commonwealth of Virginia...
There is a gunman on campus; tragedy and terror at Virginia Tech
- 2008-08-01
There is a gunman on campus; tragedy and terror at Virginia Tech. Ed. by Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke. Rowman & Littlefield 2008 263 pages $28.95 Paperback HV6534 On April 16, 2007, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (commonly called...
Colleges put out safety nets
- 2008-04-16
In the year since Seung Hui Cho killed 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech, colleges dramatically have expanded efforts to catch dangerous students in a safety net before they crash and take innocent victims down with them, school officials say. "It's a different world since...
Virginia Tech remembers its dead -- but life goes on
- 2008-04-15
BLACKSBURG, Virginia AFP — The corridor walls of Norris Hall are posted with the usual notices for university clubs, social events and rooms for rent, while inside its engineering labs students are hard at work. The Virginia Tech building shows no sign of the tragedy that took place here...
Gun bill inspired by Virginia Tech OK'd
- 2007-12-20
WASHINGTON -- Congress on Wednesday passed a long-stalled bill inspired by the Virginia Tech shootings that would more easily flag prospective gun buyers who have documented mental health problems. The measure also would help states with the cost. Passage by voice votes in the House and Senate came...
Understanding College Student Mental Health: The Psychological, Institutional and Legal Issues
- 2007-11-29
To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Ginny Greenberg of Hofstra University, +1-516-463-6819; Conference Registration, +1-516-463-6535 December 6 and 7, 2007HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The mental health of college students, which has become the subject of nationwide discussion following the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech last spring, will be examined at a...
State Mental Health Record Submissions Double
- 2007-11-29
To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: The Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2008 Since Virginia Tech, States Have Dramatically Increased Reports to National Gun Background Check SystemPARK CITY, Utah, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a speech before the National Association of Attorneys General, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today announced...
Rules block instinct to help others
- 2007-09-09
OK, I've read the 260 pages filed by the review panel that investigated the Virginia Tech shootings, and I understand that the university should have stepped in to help Seung Hui Cho but didn't, that Cho's parents should have alerted the college to his condition but didn't and that the...
Editorial | The Va. Tech Report
- 2007-09-05
You don't need to pass college history to learn a great deal from all of the tragic mistakes made prior to the nation's worst campus massacre. An exhaustive report on the April 16 Virginia Tech killings, issued last week by Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, provides the equivalent of a...
Panel details red flags before Va. Tech tragedy
- 2007-08-31
As Seung Hui Cho moved methodically through Virginia Tech's Norris Hall shooting 30 people, witnesses say he never uttered a word. That is generally how Cho moved through life -- silent, withdrawn and alone -- until a year before the shootings, when his increasingly anti-social behavior...
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