Ferrum College’s campus newspaper, The Iron Blade, has won the First Place 2021-2022 Scholastic Newspaper Award from American Scholastic Press Association (ASPA). ASPA is a nationwide contest for publications ranging from magazines to yearbooks. The ASPA focuses on elevating and highlighting not only the publications produced, but the students who work tirelessly on them. The [...]
During Ferrum College’s 106th commencement ceremony held on April 23, 2022, numerous nontraditional students celebrated the receipt of their diploma including two long-time College employees: Joyce Creel ’22 and Margaret Drakeford ’22, both of Franklin County, received bachelor of science degrees in Business Administration and Liberal Studies, respectively. Many people assume the typical college student [...]
Congratulations to alumnus and former Boone Honors Program member Joshua Wright ’19 on his recent Best Model award in the first International Cherry Blossom Prediction Competition hosted by George Mason University. More than 80 contestants across four continents formed forty-one teams to build statistical models predicting the peak bloom date of cherry trees at four [...]
Ferrum College will host a Summer Open House for prospective students beginning at 10 a.m. on Thursday, July 28, 2022, as part of its Virginia Private College Week activities. The day will include: campus tours academic program information session admissions & financial aid information sessions student life & campus safety information sessions family picnic lunch opportunities [...]
Inside Rockefeller Center, David Garten looks outside his office window at the bustling city streets of Manhattan. Despite working in one of the most iconic areas of New York City, Garten reminisces of the beauty seen in the night sky above Ferrum College. “At night you see more stars than you ever could possibly believe,” [...]
Ferrum College has long lived by the motto “Not Self, But Others.” Nowhere is this more evident than in Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration Ed Hally’s Citizenship and Service Learning class held this spring. This class, listed in the College’s catalog as PSC 399, is an introduction to the interplay of theory [...]
Ferrum College recognized 261 full-time students for their academic excellence during spring semester 2022. The 111 full-time students named to the President’s List earned a semester GPA of 4.0 and the 150 full-time students named to the Dean’s List earned a semester GPA of at least 3.4. Find students named to Spring 2022 President’s List [...]
The Blue Ridge Institute and Museum (BRIM), located at Ferrum College, recently received a donation of local Franklin County historian Dorothy Cundiff’s collection, which consists of eight file cabinets containing years of Cundiff’s research on Franklin County history plus other memorabilia. Cundiff, a Franklin County lifelong resident, dedicated years of her life to researching the [...]
Ferrum College, in conjunction with Patrick & Henry Community College (P&HCC), was recently awarded $70,000 in grant funding by the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia [SCHEV] to launch a new initiative intended to address stop-out rates of at-risk minority populations. The project’s funding comes through the Collaborative Equitable-Attainment Grant offered by SCHEV. With [...]
Ferrum College announces the addition of three new members to the Board of Trustees: alumna Amanda Cox ’04, F. Abe Dymond, and Jeffrey C. Pugh. Their terms will begin July 1, 2022. Cox is an external affairs manager for Appalachian Power responsible for oversight and implementation of local and county governmental affairs, community [...]
