Five-year online audio series “reports” events leading up to and throughout Civil War

On the occasion of the Civil War’s sesquicentennial, Longwood is “reporting” the key events of that conflict week by week through a series of podcasts developed by Longwood faculty.

The series, titled “That a Nation Might Live,” posts a new audio episode every week, turning the calendar back 150 years and allowing listeners to experience the events leading up to and during the war in an approximation of real time.

The series began in November 2010 and will run through 2015. It was conceived and developed by Dr. Chuck Ross, dean of the Cook-Cole College of Arts and Sciences, and Dr. David Coles, associate professor of history and chair of the Department of History, Political Science and Philosophy.

A podcast is a series of audio recordings released episodically that can be played directly from a website or downloaded automatically and synched to portable digital audio players like iPods. Episodes of the Civil War series can be found online at http://civilwar150.longwood.edu/. In addition to its home site, “That a Nation Might Live” has a Facebook page (search for That a Nation Might Live) and can be found on Twitter at www.twitter.com/civilwarweeks.

Security Magazine ranks Police Department in top 10 among nation’s universities

Longwood’s Chief Beach holds a copy of the Security Magazine issue that ranks Longwood’s Police Department as the 10th best in the nation among colleges and universities

The Longwood Police Department was ranked among the nation’s top 10 college and university police departments in the annual evaluation of the security industry by Security Magazine.

Longwood was one of only 24 organizations nationwide, and the only one from Virginia, to be listed in the category Education: Colleges and Universities in the November 2010 issue of the publication. Longwood ranked No. 10.

The issue contained the fifth annual Security 500 Survey, Benchmark and Trends report, which listed a combined 500 security organizations in 16 categories. The rankings are based on a survey sent to security organizations that includes a general section of questions as well as questions unique to each respective category. The year before, Longwood’s police force ranked 24^th in the survey and was one of only 27, and also the only one from Virginia, to be listed.

Two programs earn accreditation

The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) and the graduate program in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSDS) received national recognition in November 2010.
The LCVA was accredited by the American Association of Museums (AAM), joining the ranks of museums like the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk and the University of Virginia Art Museum. AAM accreditation is a seal of approval for LCVA’s high professional standards and dedication to public service. Across the country, only 4.5 percent of all museums are accredited.

The graduate CSDS program earned accreditation from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, becoming the sixth graduate program in Virginia to do so. Graduates of the program, approved in 2005, are working in public schools, hospitals, nursing facilities and with home health providers throughout Virginia and the East Coast.