■ University Profile: ROANOKE COLLEGE
Editor’s Note: This is a continuing series profi ling Virginia’s colleges and universities.
at a glance
Founded 1842 Location
80-acre campus in Salem (not Roanoke)
Enrollment
About 2,000 full- time students from 43 states and 33 countries (59% female, 41% male)
Cost
$38,302 tuition, $12,370 room and board
Financial aid
85 percent of students receive financial aid
Recognitions No. 4 US News & World Report’s
Up-and-coming National Liberal Arts Colleges
Top 9%, The
Princeton Review’s Best 380 Colleges
Top 10%, Forbes magazine’s “America’s Best Colleges”
Faculty 131 tenure-track faculty
Source: Roanoke College website 56 JUNE 2016
Punching above its weight class
Cregger Center should expand small college’s regional impact
by Shawna Morrison S
alem-based Roanoke College is a small school with a big impact on its hometown and its region. Robert Stauffer, a now-retired
Roanoke College economics professor, completed a study in 2008 that gauged
the sch ool’s local economic impact at more than $100 million. That figure included $21.5 million in gross wages paid to employees, $18.5 million in local college spending and $756,000 spent by visitors. Stauffer estimates that the
Photos by Don Petersen
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