 College Profile: VIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Editor’s Note: This is a continuing series profi ling Virginia’s colleges and universities.


Scott Miller, the university’s president, says it is developing “a new business model that celebrates our strengths and markets us to new constituency groups.”


at a glance History


Opened in 1966; transitioned to university in 2017; affiliated with United Methodist Church


President


Scott D. Miller, since 2015


Tuition and fees


$36,010 per academic year; average room and board, $8,768


Enrollment


About 1,500; 74 percent in-state


Popular majors


Business, education, biology, criminal justice


Evolving profile T


University status isn’t the sole new feature at Virginia Wesleyan


by Karin Kapsidelis


he surfboards in the administra- tion building and the Adiron- dack chair in front of the John


On the Web www.vwu.edu


60 MAY 2018


Wesley statue might help close the deal for some prospective Virginia Wesleyan University students. But that’s not what struck Nicholas


Hipple when he arrived for a tour nearly five years ago, thinking there was no way


he wanted to follow his older brother to the 300-acre VWU campus in Virginia Beach. “Once I got on campus, I knew that


I was home,” said Hipple, a senior from Blacksburg who is a double business and theater major and serves as the student government president. “I feel like a lot of students, when they tour, have an ‘aha’


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