Ferrum College is pleased to announce that journalist and bestselling author Beth Macy will be the keynote speaker for its 106th commencement ceremony on April 23, 2022. Beth Macy is the author of the critically acclaimed and New York Times-bestselling books, Factory Man, Truevine, and Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America. [...]
Since the end of January, thirty-three Ferrum College accounting and business students have assisted with STEP’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program along with the College's own VITA site. The VITA sites provide FREE online tax preparation assistance to families and individuals usually earning less than $57,000 annually. As trained and certified volunteers, the students [...]
Don Vinyard, left, of Ferrum Forward, Ferrum College President David Johns, center, and Susan Johns, mold bowls for the Empty Bowls event slated for March 13. Empty Bowls, a longstanding tradition at Ferrum College, returns this year on Sunday, March 13, and will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the [...]
Ferrum College senior Abigail McGovern sits at a desk at the Blue Ridge Institute. Carefully and meticulously, she handles an 80-year old document. Yellowed corners and faded ink sometimes make the fragile manuscripts difficult to read, but McGovern painstakingly works with the papers in order to catalogue and archive them. “The ultimate goal of this [...]
For Bryan Slater, every day is Labor Day. But it’s not a holiday. Slater (Ferrum '82) was recently tapped by Virginia Governor Glen Youngkin to be the Commonwealth’s Secretary of Labor. The appointment came on Jan. 6, accompanied by a ringing endorsement from the Virginia’s Head of State. “Workforce development will play a crucial part [...]
