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Virginia Wesleyan University company history timeline

1961

The school was chartered in 1961 as Virginia Wesleyan College under the initiative of Methodist minister Joseph Shackford Johnston, later the college's first president.

1970

The College held its first commencement in May 1970, graduating 41 pioneering students.

2011

The enhanced curricular model at Virginia Wesleyan, implemented in 2011, prepares students by providing them with expanded opportunities to learn by doing, to connect theory to practice, and to link the classroom to the world.

2016

The Batten Honors College was also initiated in 2016 and establishment of University College followed.

2017

Virginia Wesleyan College was authorized by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to become Virginia Wesleyan University, effective with the start of the 2017-18 academic year.

2018

The D. Henry Watts School of Professional Studies was added in 2018.

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1961
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Virginia Beach, VA
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David L. Kaufman H'19,William S. Shelhorse '70
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