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In fall 2022, UVA Wise will begin offering another educational program to advance the health care workforce of Southwest Virginia. Public health in the region will take another step forward as UVA Wise hosts UVA's Family Nurse Practitioner program.

Robert and Jennifer England, through the Nick England Scholarship Foundation, made another generous contribution to commemorate the life of their late son, Nick, to UVA Wise. Today’s commitment brings the cumulative total of their support to $500,000.

UVA Wise recently learned that its RALLY SWVA program, created jointly with Opportunity SWVA, is among 22 finalists for the University Economic Development Association’s Awards of Excellence.

U.S. News & World Report released its 2022 rankings, which highlight UVA Wise as both a top public liberal arts college and as one of the top ten colleges in the nation for promoting social mobility for its students.

Just before 7 a.m., more than 40 Army ROTC cadets set out to perform three acts of service to commemorate the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, and honor the first responders who helped that day and since.

Thanks to funding from a UVA program called “3CAVS,” music professors Hannah and Peter Ryan are offering local elementary, middle and high school students the opportunity to take private music lessons after school through the Appalachian Music Project.

UVA Wise contracted 10 new cadets in their ARMY ROTC program on August 25, 2021 at 8 a.m. on campus at the College’s Lawn by the Lake.

The University of Virginia’s College at Wise is pleased to announce the establishment of the James L. Oleson Napoleon Hill Foundation Bicentennial Scholarship.

Patterned after old-time medicine shows where snake-oil salesmen pitched patent medicine with a healthy side dose of singing, dancing and performing, “The Crowe Hollerers' Medicine Show” will bring two short plays, music and storytelling to UVA Wise.