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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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Virginia Tech Selects HiSoftware for Website Accessibility
- 2008-08-05
Web Compliance Solution Chosen to improve Accessibility for All NASHUA, N.H. and BLACKSBURG, Va. -- HiSoftware Inc. (www.hisoftware.com), a leading provider of software, services and managed operation solutions that monitor and optimize Web content governance, quality and regulatory compliance, today announced that Virginia Tech (www.vt.edu) has selected HiSoftware's Compliance...
Gun supplier's campus visit angers many at Va. Tech
- 2008-04-25
An Internet-based weapons dealer who supplied one of the guns used in the massacre at Virginia Tech spoke at the campus Thursday night, provoking a rebuke from campus officials and victims' family members who called his appearance "offensive" and "insensitive." Eric Thompson, owner of the online...
It's 2008: is your 911 website ready? Eight tips for designing an institution's crisis web template
- 2008-04-01
JUST A FEW HOURS AFTER THE Virginia Tech tragedy, so-called experts in crisis communication were prompt to criticize the emergency response of the university, which had just been hit by the worst campus shooting spree in U.S. history. In the following days, many stayed busy crucifying the institution for the...
Second-guessing the selection committee
- 2008-03-18
Dejection Monday Who got snubbed? Depends on whom you ask For schools not selected for the NCAA tourney, NIT stands for Not In Tournament. But was any team really snubbed? Tom Weir listed six candidates -- Arizona State,...
Gun dealer unnerved to learn coincidence behind 2 shootings
- 2008-02-17
MADISON, Wis. -- The online gun dealer who sold a weapon to the Virginia Tech shooter said it was an unnerving coincidence that he also sold handgun accessories to the man who killed five students at Northern Illinois University. Eric Thompson said his Web site, www.topglock.com, sold two...
12 states debate guns on campus
- 2008-02-15
Even before a gunman killed five people and injured several others in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University, a small but growing movement had been underway at universities and state legislatures to allow students, faculty and staff to carry guns on campus. Twelve states are...
Blog WatchPoints of viewKruse-ing to the topSterling's Lonnie Kruse
- 2008-01-07
Mic Johnson saying thank you to the Kansas football team ... for making oranges my new favorite food. I will never eat another one without thinking of this season. ... for 12 wins for the first time. Ever. ... for all of the hours...
START STUFFING SHOE-BOX GIFTS
- 2007-10-20
It may be a little early to think about the holidays, but it is never too early to think about helping needy children around the world. Operation Christmas Child is asking kids and organizations to make shoe-box gifts to be sent to children living in areas affected...
Campus alert systems take hold
- 2007-10-03
When a University of Memphis football player was found fatally shot on campus, resident assistants banged on doors warning students to stay in their dorm rooms. When a man wearing a Fred Flintstone mask and toting a .50-caliber rifle was arrested at St. John's University in...
State report criticizes Va. Tech response
- 2007-08-30
The statewide panel charged with investigating the mass shooting at Virginia Tech sharply criticized the university for not quickly and clearly notifying students and staff after police responded to a double homicide in a campus dorm and for failing to respond when shooter Seung Hui Cho showed signs of mental...
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