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124-548: The Clery Act requires all colleges and universities that participate in federal financial aid programs to keep and disclose information about crime on and near their respective campuses. Compliance is monitored by the United States Department of Education , which can impose civil penalties , up to $ 69,733 per violation, against institutions for each infraction and can suspend institutions from participating in federal student financial aid programs. The law

248-508: A $ 1 billion graduate research center adjacent to the facility. The Virginia Tech Innovation Campus will be housed at a million-square-foot campus in Alexandria. It is expected to educate hundreds of graduate students. The Innovation Campus will focus on computer science and software engineering, with specializations in areas including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and data analytics. Due to rapid growth of incoming freshmen classes,

372-589: A Cost of Attendance or Price of Attendance, also known as a "sticker price." However, that price is not how much an institution will cost an individual student. To make higher education costs more transparent before a student actually applies to college, federal law requires all post-secondary institutions receiving Title IV funds (federal funds for student aid) to post net price calculators on their websites by October 29, 2011. As defined in The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008,

496-633: A bill into law that lifted Ohio's statewide ban on firearms on college campuses, leaving the decision to the institutions. In 2017, Georgia became the tenth state to prohibit colleges and universities from banning concealed weapons on campus. Virginia law allows individual institutions to make the decision whether to allow concealed weapons on campus, but Virginia Tech continues to ban concealed carry permit holders from carrying guns on campus. After Amazon unveiled its second headquarters in Crystal City, Virginia , Virginia Tech announced plans to build

620-610: A commercial area that would soon become Christiansburg 's main shopping district to a group of developers for the historic but long fallow 1,785-acre Kentland property. The developers on the other end of the swap, one of whom was a former Tech athletics official, quickly sold 40 acres of the former university farmland for $ 2.7 million. News of the land swap, and especially the fact that it was done behind closed doors, with no input from College of Agriculture faculty sparked outrage. Also in 1986, Virginia Tech became embroiled in an athletic scandal sparked by allegations of illegal recruiting,

744-964: A database in Italy run by CNR (the Italian equivalent of the US's National Science Foundation). It has information regarding financial aid for Italian citizens to study abroad. There are also U.S. Educational Advising Centers throughout the world that assist prospective students by answering the questions they have about studying in the United States. One more option for students is to seek financial support from private foundations such as Ford Foundation , and non-profit organizations such as American Association of University Women (AAUW) and Margaret McNamara Education Grants (MMEG). Each organization has its own application process and eligibility criteria detailed on respective websites. Post-secondary institutions post

868-504: A deferment period in some cases. Direct Unsubsidized Loans are available to all undergraduate and graduate students, with no requirement to demonstrate financial need. Your school will determine how much you are allowed to borrow based on your cost of attendance and adjust for any other financial aid you are receiving. However, you are responsible for paying the interest on these loans even during school. If you choose not to pay interest while enrolled, your interest will accrue and be added to

992-417: A few hundred students. In 1992 the alumni organization-initiated Corps Review, a newsletter that was expanded to a magazine in 2004 and targeted corps alumni. In the mid-1990s, the corps alumni organization set a goal of "1000 in 2000" and initiated a major campaign to push the number of cadets to 1,000 by the turn of the century. The goal was not reached, but membership in the corps did increase substantially by

1116-538: A few weeks. Tensions on campus reached the boiling point several days following the Kent State Shootings when on May 12, 1970, a large mob including students and a number of non-student anti-war protesters enraged by the Kent State incident and angered by the administration's disciplinary actions in response to a number of recent infractions by protesters including; vandalism of university property,

1240-441: A group of anti-war protesters including students and faculty members disrupted a Corps of Cadets drill on campus. The Virginia Tech administration under Hahn took swift action. The students involved were suspended and the faculty members involved were fired from the university and the administration went to court and obtained an injunction to prevent them from repeating the act. This succeeded in calming tensions on campus, but only for

1364-475: A high-school grade point average of 4.00, with the middle 50 percent ranging from 3.84 and 4.27. The average cumulative SAT score was 1250 (out of 1600), with a middle range ranging from 1160 to 1340. Of the 5,518 students who accepted the offers of admission (for an admissions yield of 38%) , 18 percent accepted under the Early Decision Plan. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions is located within

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1488-601: A larger aid award. To qualify for need-based aid a student must have a significant amount of financial need, which is determined by the federal government based on the FAFSA. Using the information submitted on the FAFSA, the U.S. Department of Education calculates a figure called the Expected Family Contribution (EFC). If the EFC is less than the cost of attending a college, the student has financial need (as

1612-450: A low family income $ 7,123 versus $ 2,382 for students with low SAT scores and a low family income. Thus, "institutional need-based awards are less sensitive to need and more sensitive to 'academic merit' than the principles of needs analysis would lead us to expect." It has been found that increasing an SAT score in the range of 100-200 points can result in hundreds of dollars more in institutional grants and on average substantially more if one

1736-830: A machine shop for working on VTTI's vehicle fleet. VTTI develops and tests advanced transportation safety devices, techniques, and innovative applications. VTTI's research impacts public policy in transportation, notably through research into distracted driving and commercial hour-of-service. VTTI conducts applied research to address transportation challenges from various perspectives: vehicle, driver, infrastructure, materials, and environment. Most notable among VTTI endeavors are its naturalistic driving studies. These studies particularly utilize VTTI's data acquisition systems, which gather continuous video and driving performance data in real-world driving conditions. These systems have been installed in nearly 4,000 passenger vehicles, commercial trucks and motor coaches, and motorcycles. Since 2005,

1860-593: A new institution on the site, a state-supported land-grant military institute named Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College . Virginia Tech's first student, Addison "Add" Caldwell registered on October 1, 1872, after hiking over 25 miles from his home in Craig County, Virginia . A statue, located in the Upper Quad of campus commemorates Add's journey to enroll. First-year cadets and their training cadre re-enact Addison Caldwell's journey every year in

1984-640: A nod to this southern heritage the Confederate Battle Flag was traditionally waved by cheerleaders at Virginia Tech football games and the Highty-Tighties played Dixie as a fight song when the Hokies scored a touchdown. A large Confederate flag also hung inside Cassell Coliseum where Virginia Tech basketball games are played. Since 1963, "Skipper" , a replica of a Civil War cannon has been fired at football games by members of

2108-446: A particular institution." The law defines estimated net price as the difference between an institution's average total Price of Attendance (the sum of tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, and other expenses including personal expenses and transportation for first-time, full-time undergraduate students who receive aid) and the institution's median need- and merit-based grant aid awarded. Elise Miller, program director for

2232-437: A public log of all crimes reported to them or those of which they are made aware. The log is required to have the most recent 60 days' worth of information. Each log entry must contain the nature, date, time and general location of each crime and disposition of the complaint, if known. Information in the log older than 60 days must be made available within two business days. Crime logs must be kept for seven years, three years after

2356-470: A series of potentially dangerous fires set on campus, breaking and entering into a university building, and a sit-in in Cowgill Hill, seized Williams Hall and barricaded themselves inside. The administration responded quickly calling in law enforcement and early the following morning Virginia State Police forced their way into Williams Hall and began rounding up the protesters. Once inside the building

2480-414: A small, historically white, predominately male, military institute with a primary focus on undergraduate teaching into a major co-educational research university. The student body that had been approximately 5,682 in 1962 increased by roughly 1,000 students each year, new dormitories and academic buildings were constructed, faculty members were added – in 1966, for instance, more than 100 new professors joined

2604-584: A student with a low family income that has low SAT scores. In 1996, public higher education institutions gave students with high SAT scores and a low family income $ 1,255 in need-based grants. However, only $ 565 in need-based grants were given to students with low SAT scores who had low family incomes. The lower a student's SAT score, the smaller the amount of need-based grants a student received no matter what their family income level was. The same trend holds true for higher education private institutions. In 1996, private institutions gave students with high SAT scores and

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2728-474: A student. It is determined by taking the college's Cost of Attendance , which current rules require each college to specify. Then from it is subtracted the student's Expected Family Contribution, based on the student's income and assets, and calculated by the U.S. Department of Education under rules set by Congress and processed using the FAFSA system. For unmarried students under 24, Congress mandates that parental income and assets be included. The resulting figure

2852-652: A study on the correlation between the price of higher education and enrollment rates, Donald Heller finds that the amount of financial aid available for students is a strong factor in enrollment rates. Different factors have different effects on financial aid: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech ( VT ), officially the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ( VPI ), is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia , United States. It

2976-559: A successful resolution to end the practice. Following the resolution there was a large demonstration in opposition to the removal of the Confederate flag. The campus was covered in Confederate flags and Dixie was blasting from dormitory windows. Harper and her white roommate received hate mail and threatening phone calls, but the resolution stood, and the display of the rebel flag ended in 1969. The Confederate flag on Virginia Tech class rings became optional in 1972 and could be left off of

3100-499: A supplemental application may be necessary for institutional need-based aid. A recent trend shows that what is purely need-based aid is not entirely clear. According to the National Postsecondary Aid Survey (NPSAS), SAT scores affect the size of institutional need-based financial aid. If a student has a high SAT score and a low family income, they will receive larger institutional need-based grants than

3224-519: A two-year monitoring agreement. According to UC Berkeley's "SUMMARY of Department of Education Findings," the infractions committed are as follows: In 2018, the Department of Education cited the University of Montana “for inaccurate and misleading crime statistics for calendar years 2012 through 2015," resulting in a nearly $ 1 million fine which the university is appealing. In March of 2024,

3348-699: A wide range of other engineering, scientific, social science, and creative fields. This research led to 36 patents and 17 license and option agreements in fiscal year 2013. The Fralin Life Science Institute is an expansion of the Fralin Biotechnology Center, which was established in 1991. Research at the institute is focused on the areas of vector-borne disease; infectious disease and microbial sciences; plant sciences; obesity; cancer biology; and ecology and organismal biology. The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI)

3472-482: Is a form of financial aid. Work-study jobs allow students to get campus jobs, when possible within their field of interest, and are more flexible than off-campus part-time jobs because they are designed to accommodate student schedules. In 2022, Williams College became the first institution of higher education in the United States to completely eliminate work-study (along with loans) from their financial aid programs by offering an "all grant" financial aid package. While

3596-651: Is a public university and one of Virginia's two land-grant institutions . Its academic programs are administered by nine colleges, the Graduate School, and the Honors College. Virginia Tech offers 116 bachelor's degree programs through its nine undergraduate academic colleges, 160 master's and doctoral degree programs through the Graduate School, and a professional degree from the Virginia–Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine . In addition,

3720-628: Is also assistance a student can seek from their native country. Canadian students attending colleges in the US may obtain loans through the Canadian government's Ministry of Skills, Training, and Labour. Alternative loans Canadian international students may apply for are the Canadian Higher Education Loan Program, Global Student Loan Corporation (GLSC), and International Student Loan Program (ISLP). Financial Aid for European Students can be looked by using Noopolis,

3844-421: Is an asymmetric information problem since schools have full knowledge of their customers' ability to pay while students and their families have little information about costs that colleges face to provide their services. That is, when planning for the next academic year, a school will know its current and projected costs as well as each student's ability to pay after receiving state and federal grants. According to

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3968-431: Is attending a private institution. While providing financial information to the government is a reasonable expectation to calculate a student's financial need, it does not necessarily follow that colleges should have access to this information. Providing that information to schools may be problematic because schools learn about students' other sources of funding and may adjust their financial aid packages accordingly. There

4092-490: Is because graduate and teaching assistantships are offered based on academic achievement, regardless of citizenship. Although International students are not eligible for the US government aid programs like the Pell Grant, SEOG Grant, Stafford Loan, Perkins Loan, PLUS Loan, and Federal Work study, many schools will ask international students to submit a FAFSA so that they may use the data for assessing financial need. There

4216-507: Is beneficial as it underlies that one form of financial aid, particularly merit-based, is not completely taking over need-based aid. Statistics do show results of studies performed from 1992–2000 that the increase in financial aid awarded was based entirely on merit. However, when viewing numbers of both merit-based and need-based aid closely, the differences are not significant. The following types of federal financial aid are available to graduate and professional students. Aid for these students

4340-689: Is financial aid still available for international students. Some colleges and universities offer aid to international students. To find out if the school in question offers such assistance inquire of the financial aid office of the institution. Some schools offer grants, loans, and jobs, and give anywhere from 15 to 150 awards to foreign students. For example, schools such as Harvard , Princeton , University of Pennsylvania , University of Miami , Ithaca College , Cornell University , Johns Hopkins , University of Chicago , University of Oregon , and Williams College all offer packages to foreign students. Graduate students may have more luck with financial aid. This

4464-581: Is investigating Penn State over the Penn State sex abuse scandal . Their investigation arises from the university administration's alleged failure to report allegations of sex offenses on campus by Jerry Sandusky , a former school official, as being a violation of the Act. Former Penn State Defensive Coach Jerry Sandusky has been convicted of sexually abusing several young boys over several years, including incidents on campus. A campus safety advocacy group called

4588-505: Is modest aid targeted at only low-income students, like the Pell grant." The center uses data about net proceeds (tuition plus room, board and other fees) as a percentage of median income to show that financial aid practices have not been effective in decreasing prices in an effort to increase access. Net proceeds at public four-year institutions rose from 15% to 20% of median income from 1987 to 2008. In that same time, productivity has declined in

4712-579: Is named after Jeanne Clery , a 19-year-old Lehigh University student who was raped and murdered in her campus residence hall in 1986. Her murder triggered a backlash against unreported crime on campuses across the country. Josoph M. Henry, a student, raped and murdered Jeanne Clery in April 1986 in Stoughton Hall at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Henry was given a death sentence via

4836-399: Is primarily loans. Graduate students may also be eligible for these financial aid programs: There is little financial aid available for foreign students, with the unique exception of Canadian and Mexican students. A majority of aid is awarded as grants, scholarships, and loans that come through public and private sources which restrict their awards to American citizens. That being said there

4960-408: Is the student's "need". Colleges attempt to provide students with enough financial aid to meet all student need, but in most cases are unable to do so completely. The result is "unmet need". Under federal law, if there are special circumstances such as loss of a job or large medical expenses, college financial aid offices have considerable liberty to lower a student's calculated need, thus resulting in

5084-480: Is typically determined by financial need. The application process is set by the agency providing the funds and often relies on data submitted via the FAFSA . While the terms grant and scholarship are frequently used interchangeably, there is a difference. Scholarships may have a financial need component, but rely on other criteria as well. Some private need-based awards are confusingly called scholarships, and require

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5208-558: The Carilion Clinic and the governor of Virginia. These years also brought about the rapid development of the university's professional schools of graduate education and business programs. Virginia Tech brought in over $ 500 million in research expenditures in 2014. The establishment of scholarships for cadets and a resurgence of national patriotism after the September 11 attacks helped the corps recruit new cadets, increasing

5332-461: The College of William and Mary (now Old Dominion University ). This program eventually developed into a two-year engineering program that allowed students to transfer to VPI for their final two years of degree work. The first women's dormitory at VPI, Hillcrest Hall, was built in 1940. In 1943, VPI merged with Radford State Teachers College in nearby Radford , which became VPI's women's division;

5456-404: The U.S. Department of Education under Arne Duncan , Virginia Tech was said to have violated this Act. Additionally the Department of Education fined the University $ 55,000 on March 29, 2011 for "failure to issue a timely warning" in response to the shootings at West Ambler Johnston. The university appealed the fine arguing that actions were in compliance with guidelines distributed to schools by

5580-961: The University of Texas tower shooting in 1966. Although it was at the time the deadliest mass shooting committed by a lone gunman in U.S. history, it has since been surpassed by two shootings at an Orlando nightclub and an outdoor music festival in Las Vegas . It is the second-deadliest school massacre in U.S. history, surpassed only by the Bath School bombing in 1927 that killed 44. The Virginia Tech massacre led to an intense nationwide debate over gun rights, gun safety and efficacy of gun-free zones. It prompted many states to introduce legislation to prohibit public colleges and universities from banning concealed weapons on campus for permit holders. In 2013, at least 19 states introduced legislation to allow concealed carry on campus in some form, and in

5704-559: The $ 100,000 grant from the Gates Foundation enabled College Abacus to expand from its beta version with 2500+ schools to a fully comprehensive version with all the colleges and universities in the United States. In 2001, Princeton University became the first university in the United States to eliminate loans from its financial aid packages. Since then, many other schools have followed in eliminating some or all loans from their financial aid programs. In 2022, Williams College became

5828-683: The 2.2-mile (3.5 km), two-lane, fully instrumented Virginia Smart Road ; connected-vehicle test beds in Southwest and Northern Virginia; more than 83,000 square feet of office and laboratory space; the VTTI/Center for Injury Biomechanics Crash Sled Lab; and the National Tire Research Center in Southern Virginia. These laboratories include an asphalt lab, fully equipped garages, instrumentation bays, and

5952-510: The 2014 legislative session, at least 14 states introduced similar legislation. In December 8, 2011, a campus police officer Deriek Crouse was fatally shot by Radford University student Ross Truett Ashley, 22, before he took his own life. In 2016, Tennessee passed a bill permitting faculty members to carry handguns on campus after notifying local law enforcement. In 2015, Texas became the eighth state to allow concealed weapons on college campuses. In December 2016, Governor John Kasich signed

6076-726: The Caldwell March. They complete the first half of the 26-mile march in the fall and the second half in the spring. The first five presidents of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College served in the Confederate States Army or the Confederate government during the Civil War as did many of its early professors including the first Commandant , James H. Lane , a VMI graduate and former Confederate General who taught civil engineering and commerce at

6200-452: The Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP), "If the federal or state authorities increase financial support per student, the institution has the opportunity to capture part or all of that increased ability to pay by reducing institutional grants and/or raising their charges for tuition, fees, room, or board." Importantly, it also notes that "the exception to this general pattern

6324-491: The Clery Act requirements....Once a review is completed, the Department issues a Final Program Review Determination. Although regular program reviews may contain Clery Act findings, this page includes only those program reviews that were focused exclusively on the Clery Act. Below, you can access these reports as well as accompanying documentation which may include the complaint, school response, or fine action that resulted from

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6448-612: The Clery Act. In 2014, new amendments were made to require reporting on domestic violence, dating violence and stalking. In cases of forcible sexual offenses, there have been reports of colleges questioning accounts of alleged victims, further complicating documentation and policing of student assaults. Institutions are required to report on crimes such as: Institutions are required to report on persons referred for campus disciplinary action for: Institutions are required to report on crimes or bodily harm related to/caused by: Numerous institutions have been fined and found in non-compliance of

6572-470: The Clery Act. Many include defining of crimes, reporting methods and alerting students of dangers. From 2008–2012, 14 higher education institutions were fined for Clery Act noncompliance. Large scale Clery violations results in financial fines at institutions such as Pennsylvania State University , Eastern Michigan University , Virginia Tech , University of Montana , and Liberty University . Reports on complaints of Clery Act noncompliance are available from

6696-465: The Corps of Cadets when the team scores. The Confederate Flag was also prominently featured on all Virginia Tech class rings . The display of the Confederate flag at athletic events ended in the late 1960s after Marguerite Harper, a black woman attending Virginia Tech on a Rockefeller Scholarship for culturally disadvantaged students, was elected to the student senate during her sophomore year and made

6820-420: The Department of Education in a handbook. On March 30, 2012, the U.S. Department of Education’s administrative law judge ruled in favor of the university, saying in a statement: “This was not an unreasonable amount of time in which to issue a warning. …. if the later shootings at Norris Hall had not occurred, it is doubtful that the timing of the email would have been perceived as too late.” On September 17, 2019

6944-513: The Department of Education issued a record-high fine of $ 14 million for 11 violations, including "failing to maintain an accurate, daily crime log; failing to issue timely warnings to the campus community about reportable crimes; and failing to comply with numerous sexual violence prevention and response requirements." In a public statement, Liberty announced $ 2 million in campus funds that will be put toward safety improvements. Student financial aid (United States) Student financial aid in

7068-490: The FAFSA, the CSS Profile financial form, which goes into greater detail. Need-based financial aid is awarded on the basis of the financial need of the student. The "need" of each student is a figure determined separately for each student. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid application (FAFSA) is generally used for determining federal, state, and institutional need-based aid eligibility. At private institutions,

7192-666: The Federal Student Aid (FSA) website. Federal Student Aid, an office of the Department of Education, conducts reviews to evaluate compliance with the Clery Act. According to the Federal Student Aid (FSA) page on Clery Act Reports, "The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act is a federal statute requiring colleges and universities participating in federal financial aid programs to maintain and disclose campus crime statistics and security information. The U.S. Department of Education conducts reviews to evaluate an institution's compliance with

7316-484: The Free Application for Federal Student Aid ( FAFSA ). The financial aid process has been criticized for its part in enrollment management , whereby students are awarded money not based on merit or need, but on what the maximum the student families will pay. In the United States, grants come from a wide range of government departments, colleges, universities or public and private trusts. Grant eligibility

7440-693: The U.S. Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) stated the idea behind the requirement: "We just want to break down the myth of sticker price and get beyond it. This is to give students some indication that they will not necessarily be paying that full price." The template was developed based on the suggestions of an IPEDS' Technical Review Panel (TRP), which met on January 27–28, 2009, and included 58 individuals representing federal and state governments, post-secondary institutions from all sectors, association representatives, and template contractors. Mary Sapp, Ph.D., assistant vice president for planning and institutional research at

7564-404: The U.S. government does not pay the interest for the student while enrolled in school; they are often referred to as unsubsidized loans. The Unsubsidized Stafford Loan and Grad PLUS loans are non-need-based loans available for both undergraduate and graduate students who do not qualify for need-based financial aid. Even though these loans are not subsidized, interest rates are set by Congress,

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7688-478: The US Department of Education issued a Final Program Review Determination following an analysis of UC Berkeley's policies, procedures and statistics from 2009–2016 that found UC Berkeley to have failed to comply with the Clery Act. On September 9, 2020, UC Berkeley and federal authorities reached a settlement agreement under which the campus will pay $ 2.35 million to the Department of Education and remain under

7812-527: The United States is funding that is available exclusively to students attending a post-secondary educational institution in the United States . This funding is used to assist in covering the many costs incurred in the pursuit of post-secondary education. Financial aid is available from federal and state governments, educational institutions, and private organizations. It can be awarded in the form of grants, loans, work-study , and scholarships. In order to apply for federal financial aid, students must first complete

7936-463: The University of Miami, served as the panel's chair. She described the mandate's goal as "to provide prospective and current undergraduate students with some insight into the difference between an institution's sticker price and the price they will end up paying." To meet the requirement, post-secondary institutions may choose between a basic template developed by the U.S. Department of Education or an alternative net price calculator that offers at least

8060-530: The VPI board of visitors from 1886 to 1900), shot Stockton Heth, Jr., a scion of one of Montgomery County's wealthiest families, in his campus home on faculty row. Heth, who lived at Whitethorne , an antebellum mansion on a 1,500-acre estate near Blacksburg, later died of his wounds in a Roanoke hospital. Due to the Heth family's wealth and political connections, Vawter's position as head of the VPI physics department, and

8184-623: The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors for the scandal and warned other state-supported institutions in Virginia not to put athletics ahead of academics. Lavery developed a reorganization plan for the troubled Athletic Department, and Frank Beamer was hired to replace Bill Dooley as head football coach, but with negative publicity continuing to swirl within and around the university, he announced his resignation on October 16, 1987, effective December 31, 1987, to prevent polarization of

8308-525: The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute is a public-private partnership jointly managed by Virginia Tech and the Carilion Clinic founded on January 3, 2007. Virginia Tech received a record number of nearly 22,500 applications for the fall 2015 freshman class, an increase of 7.6% from the previous year's 20,897 applications for an overall admissions rate of 65.8%. The typical student offered admission had

8432-479: The Visitor and Undergraduate Admissions Center. Virginia Tech offers a highly selective Honors College , which provides undergraduate students 11 different ways to earn Honors credits towards one of the five Honors degree options. Once admitted, Honors students are required to maintain a 3.6 GPA in order to remain in the program. Roughly one-fourth of the approximately 1,600 University Honors students live in one of

8556-413: The already small amount of federal aid available to low-income students who simply cannot pay for college without some kind of financial aid. In recent years, the government has responded to the financial crisis students are facing and therefore passed legislation that boosted the value of grants for low-income students and trimmed subsidies for private education lenders. Schools have also taken action for

8680-510: The bitter departure of two athletic directors in less than a year and millions of dollars of debt run up by the university's sports program due to mismanagement of financial resources, million dollar coaching contracts, and lavish expense accounts for athletics officials that led to a rebuke from Governor of Virginia , Gerald Baliles in 1987. Baliles, the featured speaker at the Virginia Tech's 115th annual commencement exercises, scolded

8804-548: The campus. He was succeeded as president by James Douglas McComas who served until 1994. Due to the unpopularity of US involvement in the Vietnam War enrollment in the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets spiraled downward through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In 1991 through the efforts of Henry Dekker (Class of 1944) The Corps of Cadets Alumni Inc. was created to save the corps, whose numbers had declined to only

8928-460: The college and is the namesake of Lane Hall, one of the oldest buildings on campus, built in 1888. Its third president, Thomas Nelson Conrad , was a notorious Confederate spy who ran a covert intelligence gathering operation from a home in the heart of Washington, D.C. Its sixth president, Paul Brandon Barringer , was a son of Confederate General Rufus Barringer and a nephew of Confederate Generals Stonewall Jackson and Daniel Harvey Hill . In

9052-479: The college switched from semesters to the quarter system, which remained in place until the late 1980s. Under the 1891–1907 presidency of John McLaren McBryde , the school organized its academic programs into a traditional four-year college and a graduate department was founded. The evolution of the school's programs led to a name change in 1896 to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute . The "Agricultural and Mechanical College" portion of

9176-434: The cost of attendance for low-income and middle-class students. The following schools have a loan cap program: Studies examining the effects of financial aid on postsecondary outcomes have generally found positive effects. For instance, a study reviewing the literature on the effects of grant aid on enrollment finds that grant aid positively increases college enrollment, with approximately a 3 to 4 percentage points increase in

9300-546: The dismissal of the university's president, John A. Fallon . On September 5, 2019, the U.S. Department of Education announced that Michigan State University would be fined $ 4.5 million, the largest ever Clery Act penalty, up until the Liberty University penalty in March of 2024, following an investigation into the institution's response to allegations of misconduct by Larry Nassar . The U.S. Department of Education

9424-691: The early 1970s, but none turned violent. The university continued to expand through the last quarter of the 20th century. In 1975 William E. Lavery , who had joined the Virginia Tech faculty in 1966, took over as president when Hahn left the university to join Georgia-Pacific . Desperate for additional farmland for the support of teaching, research, and extension programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Virginia Tech acquired Kentland Farm on December 31, 1986. Virginia Tech secretly traded about 250 acres of research orchards adjacent to

9548-677: The electric chair by a trial court, a decision upheld by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court when appealed. The attack on Clery was one of 38 violent crimes recorded at the university in three years. Clery’s parents argued that, had the university's crime record been known, Clery would not have attended. They sued, were awarded $ 2 million, and founded Security on Campus, a nonprofit group. By October 1 of each year, institutions must publish and distribute their Annual Campus Security Report to current and prospective students and employees. Institutions are also allowed to provide notice of

9672-520: The end of the decade. The early decades of this century have seen expansion across the university's institutions in both physical and population sizes. In 2001, Virginia Tech acquired 326 acres of the Heth Farm adjacent to campus, increasing the College Farm to over 3,000 acres. The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute was created with a strategic partnership with

9796-537: The facilities of Preston and Olin Institute , a small Methodist school for boys in Southwest Virginia's rural Montgomery County . That same year, 250 acres (100 ha) of the adjoining Solitude Farm including the house and several farm buildings on the estate were acquired for $ 21,250 from Robert Taylor Preston, a son of Governor of Virginia , James Patton Preston . The commonwealth incorporated

9920-442: The faculty – and research budgets were increased. During Hahn's tenure, not only did the university graduate its first Rhodes Scholar , W.W. Lewis, Class of 1963, the requirement for male students to participate in the Corps of Cadets for two years was dropped in 1964. Beginning in the fall 1973, women could participate in the Corps, making Virginia Tech among the nation's first senior military colleges to integrate women. In 1970,

10044-426: The first African American to graduate from VPI. Yates earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering , with honors, and was hailed as the first African American "to be graduated from any major Southern engineering institute," according to news reports at the time. VPI President T. Marshall Hahn , whose tenure ran from 1962 to 1974, was responsible for many of the programs and policies that transformed VPI from

10168-445: The first institution of higher education in the United States to eliminate both loans and work-study contributions from their financial aid programs. Many of these programs are aimed at students whose parents earn less than a certain income — the figures vary by college or university. These new initiatives were designed to attract more students and applicants from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, reduce student debt loads, and provide

10292-506: The following rankings from The Princeton Review in its 2017 Best 380 Colleges Rankings: Virginia Tech's research and development expenditures (R&D) were $ 542 million in fiscal year 2019, which ranked 48th among education institutions in the nation and 2nd in the state of Virginia according to the National Science Foundation . As a result, Virginia Tech marked its 15th consecutive year of research growth, with

10416-484: The form of lighter teaching loads for professors and increased expenditures on administrative staff. Non-need-based loans are available for students and families who cannot afford to pay the entire cost of college. These loans are directed toward those individuals and families who did not qualify for need-based loans due to the amount of their personal assets. There is usually a higher interest rate associated with non-need-based loans. Because these loans are not need-based,

10540-467: The formal name. Similarly, the abbreviation "VT" is far more common today than either VPI or VPI&SU. During the Vietnam War , students on college campuses across the nation protested the draft and U.S. involvement in the conflict. Despite its long history as a military school , Virginia Tech was no exception. Most protests at Virginia Tech were small sit-ins and teach-ins, but In mid-April 1970

10664-435: The like), creativity, career field, college, athletic ability, among other categories. There are search engines available to find scholarships such as Peterson's, Unigo , Fastweb , Cappex, Chegg , The College Board , and Niche (formerly known as College Prowler ). In the college financial aid process in the United States, a student's "need" is a figure which colleges use when calculating how much financial aid to offer

10788-724: The likelihood of enrollment for a $ 1,000 reduction in costs. Similarly, a systematic review and meta-analysis by Tuan Nguyen and colleagues examining the effects of grant aid find that, across more than 40 studies, grant aid increases the probability of students persisting from year to year and of completing their degree by 2 to 3 percentage points, and an additional $ 1,000 of grant aid improves year-to-year persistence and degree attainment by 1.5 to 2 percentage points. This comprehensive study also finds that grant aid programs with additional non-monetary supports such as academic support and advising have larger effects, and that grant aid effects are weaker for merit-based aid than for need-based aid. In

10912-473: The merger was dissolved in 1964. Today, Radford University is a co-educational research university that enrolls nearly 10,000 students and offers more than 150 undergraduate and graduate programs. In 1953, under the leadership of President Walter Stephenson Newman , VPI became the first historically white, four-year public institution among the 11 states in the former Confederacy to admit a black undergraduate. Three more black students were admitted in 1954. At

11036-483: The minimum elements the law requires. A report issued by The Institute for College Access and Success , ""Adding it all up 2012: are net price calculators easy to find, use and compare?" found key issues with the implementation of the net price calculator requirement. In "Adding it all up," the authors state, "this report takes a more in-depth look at the net price calculators from 50 randomly selected colleges. While we found some positive practices that were not evident at

11160-487: The most recent eight years of crime statistics that occurred: on campus , in institution residential facilities, in noncampus buildings, or on public property. Offenses are defined by the UCR Handbook and are not the state crime definitions but rather federal crime definitions. This has led to possible discrepancies in data reporting . Some changes have been made to further define discrepancies in recent updates to

11284-514: The most sought, as they have few requirements other than enrollment and demonstration of financial need. However, the amount you may borrow is determined by your school and may not exceed your financial need, which is based on the EFC from your FAFSA. You are not required to begin repaying these loans for as long as you are in school at least as a part-time student. They also offer a six-month grace period, meaning you do not begin repaying them until six months after you leave school. These loans also offer

11408-486: The name was popularly omitted almost immediately; in 1944, the name was officially changed to Virginia Polytechnic Institute ( VPI ). VPI admitted its first female students in 1921 as civilian day students ; they did not live on campus. In 1923, VPI changed a policy of compulsory participation in the Corps of Cadets from four years to two years. In 1931, VPI began teaching classes at the Norfolk Division of

11532-406: The net price calculator's purpose is: "…to help current and prospective students, families, and other consumers estimate the individual net price of an institution of higher education for a student. The net price calculator shall be developed in a manner that enables current and prospective students, families, and consumers to determine an estimate of a current or prospective student's net price at

11656-484: The offering institutions with an advantage over their rivals in attracting commitments from accepted students. Most students prefer no-loan financial aid as a way to relieve the amount of debt they are in after college The following colleges and universities offer such no-loan financial aid packages as of March 2008: Some universities have opted to have a "loan cap" program, which is a maximum loan — either per year or for four years combined — designed to reduce

11780-571: The police discovered bomb making materials and determined that the students had apparently intended to build a firebomb . The first few protesters were dragged out of the building; the rest left peacefully and were arrested and taken to the Montgomery County jail. The students involved in the seizure, were suspended from Virginia Tech and given twenty-four hours to remove their belongings from campus after being released from jail. Several more anti-war protests occurred at Virginia Tech during

11904-473: The principal amount of your loan. Federal parent loans are a federally funded loan option if the student is dependent on his or her parents. Parent loans allow parents to take out student loans, the repayment of which will be their responsibility. The parents use these loans to pay for educational expenses on behalf of the student. For undergraduate students there is the parent loan for undergraduate students or PLUS Loan . This loan allows parents to borrow up to

12028-589: The program review." In 2008, Eastern Michigan University was fined $ 357,500 for failing to warn the campus of a student's assault and death that occurred in 2006. Beyond reporting the incident, the school was fined for violating federal crime-reporting laws. The Laura Dickinson incident has been seen as a wake-up call on how universities report and display statistics on crimes that occur on university campuses. The incident brought forth university-wide changes in campus safety and safety notifications. The incident also brought changes in university administration, including

12152-747: The programs are closely supervised, and they provide many protections that private loans rarely offer. Some non-need-based grants and scholarships consider merit rather than financial need. These awards are granted by the college or university as well as outside organizations. Merit-based scholarships are typically awarded for outstanding academic achievements and maximum SAT or ACT scores. However, some scholarships may be awarded due to special talents like athletic scholarships , leadership potential, and other personal characteristics. To be considered for such awards some institutions require an additional application process while others automatically consider all admitted students for their merit-based scholarships. With

12276-494: The publication of the last annual security report. The Clery Act requires institutions to give timely warnings of crimes that represent a threat to the safety of students or employees. Institutions are required to publish their policies regarding timely warnings in their Annual Campus Security Report. Institutions are required to notify the community only of crimes covered by the Clery statistics. As of 2012, an institution must keep

12400-450: The ranks to 1,127 by 2018—the largest corps the university has seen since the mid-1960s. The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets is poised to increase enrollment to 1,400 in coming years. On April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho fatally shot 32 faculty members and students and wounded 17 others in two locations on campus before killing himself. The massacre is the deadliest mass shooting on an American college campus, surpassing

12524-452: The report, a URL if available, and instructions on how to obtain a paper copy. This report is required to provide crime statistics for the prior three years, policy statements regarding various safety and security measures, campus crime prevention program descriptions, and procedures to be followed in the investigation and prosecution of alleged sex offenses. Each institution's police department or security departments are required to maintain

12648-530: The results of a FAFSA (the family's EFC). However, scholarships are often merit-based, while grants tend to be need-based. Some examples of grants commonly applied for in the U.S.: An education loan is a loan taken out by the student (or parent) in order to pay for educational expenses. Unlike scholarships and grants, this money must be repaid with interest. Educational loan options include federal student loans, federal parent loans, private loans, and consolidation loans. Federal student loans are loans directly to

12772-465: The ring at the student's request. The Confederate flag has since been removed from class ring designs entirely. Under the leadership of seventh president Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , who held the position from 1913 to 1919, the university established a Reserve Officer Training Corps to support national efforts during World War I . Early on the morning of March 13, 1917, physics professor Charles E. Vawter, Jr. (son of Charles E. Vawter, who had served on

12896-550: The sake of students. Harvard University , a well-known costly but wealthy institution that had previously cut tuition for students whose families earned less than $ 60,000 a year, proceeded to cut costs by nearly fifty percent for those students whose families earned between $ 120,000 and $ 180,000 a year. Institutions will consider students' financial needs as well as their academic merit standing when applying for financial aid. Merit-based aid and need-based aid have been linked together for many financial aid scholarships. This relationship

13020-401: The scandal "the most extensive investigation the Department of Education has ever conducted". November 3, 2016 The U.S. Department of Education announced that it is seeking to impose on Penn State University, a record fine at the time of nearly $ 2.4 million for 11 cited violations. In the final report regarding the April 16, 2007 Virginia Tech massacre issued on Thursday, December 9, 2010 by

13144-634: The scandalous extramarital affair that led to the shooting, the resulting murder trial was one of the most sensational in Virginia history (Vawter was acquitted, and left the school). Eggleston attempted to suppress news of the affair in the media with considerable success, most likely due to the Russian Revolution and the US declaration of war on Germany that stole the headlines in the spring of 1917 , rather than his efforts to protect VPI's reputation. During Thomas Nelson Conrad's tenure as president,

13268-417: The state legislature allowed VPI university status and gave it the present legal name, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University . In the early 1990s, university administration authorized the official use of Virginia Tech as equivalent to the full legal name; it has been used as the first-reference name for the school's athletic teams since the 1970s. However, diplomas and transcripts still spell out

13392-462: The student; the student is responsible for repayment of the loan. These loans typically have low interest rates and do not require a credit check or any other sort of collateral. Student loans provide a wide variety of deferment plans, as well as extended repayment terms, making it easier for students to select payment methods that reflect their financial situation. There are federal loan programs that consider financial need. Direct subsidized loans are

13516-493: The term is used in the U.S. financial aid system). Students can file an appeal with their college financial aid office in order to seek additional financial aid, though the information about the process is not always clear or available online. SwiftStudent , a free service, provides template letters for college students. Some well-to-do colleges have need-based aid of their own to distribute, in addition to federal and state aid (if any). These colleges require, in addition to

13640-674: The terms grant and scholarship are frequently used interchangeably, there is a difference. Scholarships may have a financial need component but rely on other criteria as well. Some private need-based awards are confusingly called scholarships, and require the results of a FAFSA (the family's EFC). However, scholarships are often merit-based, while grants tend to be need-based. Scholarships , similar to grants, do not need to be repaid. Scholarships come from state, educational institutions, and private agencies. Scholarships can be awarded based on merit, financial need, student characteristics (such as gender, race, religion, family and medical history, and

13764-470: The time Virginia still enforced Jim Crow laws and largely practiced racial segregation in public and private education, churches, neighborhoods, restaurants, and movie theaters and these first black students at VPI were not allowed to live in residence halls or eat in the dining halls on campus. Instead, they boarded with African American families in Blacksburg. In 1958, Charlie L. Yates made history as

13888-609: The time of our previous report, net price calculators are still not reliably easy for prospective college students and their families to find, use, and compare." After the requirement came into effect, Abigail Seldin and Whitney Haring-Smith launched the free website College Abacus , which hosted a system that would allow students to enter their personal information once, and then use and compare net prices of multiple schools. The Gates Foundation 's College Knowledge Challenge announced College Abacus as one its winners in January 2013;

14012-787: The total cost of attendance, minus any other financial aid the student receives. Eligibility will be determined upon review of the parent's credit history. Private student loans are offered by private lenders (financial institutions). These loans typically have much higher interest rates, have fewer repayment/deferment options, cannot be discharged through bankruptcy , and are not supervised by any agency. Consolidation loans combine two or more student and/or parent loans into one loan. They are an option for those who find themselves struggling with multiple student loan payments. Consolidation loans are available for most federal loan types, and some private lenders offer private consolidation loans for private education loans. The Federal Work-Study Program

14136-706: The two University Honors residential halls, the Honors Residential College located in East Ambler-Johnston and the Hillcrest Honors Community . For the 2013–14 academic year, the Graduate School at Virginia Tech enrolled 6,723 graduate students (4,465 full-time; 2,258 part-time) in its masters and doctoral programs. The Pamplin College of Business received 381 applications for its incoming Evening MBA program and offered admission to 142. The class's average GMAT

14260-579: The undergraduate architecture program 3rd nationally among both public and private universities. The graduate architecture program ranked 9th in the nation. For 2013, DesignIntelligence ranked the university's undergraduate and graduate landscape architecture programs No. 2 in the nation. In addition, DesignIntelligence ranked the university's undergraduate interior design program 6th and undergraduate industrial design program 3rd. The Planetizen 2012 Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs ranked Virginia Tech's MURP program as 19th. Virginia Tech's MURP program

14384-459: The university announced in 2019 that it would offer 1,559 incoming, in-state freshmen financial incentives to skip the 2019–20 school year in Blacksburg. Expecting a larger-than-planned class size, the university budgeted $ 3.3 million for the endeavor. Virginia Tech also waived the requirement that freshmen live on campus for the 2019–20 school year, leased an off-campus Holiday Inn , and converted its on-campus hotel to house students. Virginia Tech

14508-781: The university's research portfolio more than doubling from $ 192.7 million in fiscal year 2000. The only Virginia institution in the top 50 of the NSF's rankings for research expenditures, Virginia Tech is No. 23 among public universities. The university's research expenditures rank it in the top 5 percent of more than 900 research universities and colleges. Each year, the university receives thousands of awards to conduct research from an ever-expanding base of sponsors. Researchers pursue new discoveries in agriculture, biotechnology, information and communication technology, human health, transportation, energy management (including leadership in fuel-cell technology and power electronics), security, sustainability, and

14632-593: The yearly rising cost of tuition, room and board, and fees among schools across the nation, low-income students are finding it harder to pay for their education. In an attempt to help students meet the high, costly demands of college, schools have increased merit-based grants, for students with outstanding academic positions, involvement in organizations, or high athletic talent. The issue is that these reasons for awarding scholarships take away from low-income students who often do not meet these merit standards. In other words, funds for merit-based scholarships are taking away from

14756-1140: Was 610, and mean undergraduate GPA was 3.4. The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke, Va., received 4,403 applications for its eighth incoming class, the class of 2021, and offered admission to 42. The class's MCAT scores range was 503–520 (median 512, mean 512), and mean undergraduate GPA was 3.57. In 2023, Virginia Tech became the second public university after the U.S. Supreme Court decided Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard , banning affirmative action in college admissions, to end its use of legacy admissions . The university also ended its binding early decision program because it "created unneeded pressure on students [...] particularly those needing financial aid". In U.S. News & World Report ' s list of "2024 Best Colleges", Virginia Tech tied for 47th overall among national universities, tied for 20th among public ones, tied at 25th for "Most Innovative", ranked 156th in "Best Value Schools", and tied for 207th in "Top Performers on Social Mobility". The Pamplin College of Business 's part-time MBA program

14880-482: Was also rated among the best programs in Technology, Land Use Planning, Environmental Planning, and Growth Management. Kiplinger's Personal Finance places Virginia Tech 20th in its 2019 ranking of 174 best value public colleges in the United States. In 2018, CEOWORLD magazine ranked the undergraduate architecture program 3rd nationally. The graduate architecture program ranked 14th. Virginia Tech received

15004-661: Was founded as the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1872. The university also has educational facilities in six regions statewide, a research center in Punta Cana , Dominican Republic , and a study-abroad site in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland . Through its Corps of Cadets ROTC program, Virginia Tech is a senior military college . Virginia Tech offers 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to its 37,000 students; as of 2016, it

15128-482: Was founded as the Center for Transportation Research in 1988 and employs more than 350 personnel. VTTI has more than $ 125 million in active research awards, and has a mission to save lives, save time, save money, and protect the environment . It is the second largest university-level transportation institute in the United States , and the largest group of driving safety researchers in the world. Facilities include

15252-860: Was the state's second-largest public university by enrollment. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The university's athletic teams are known as the Virginia Tech Hokies and compete in Division I of the NCAA as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference . In 1872, with federal funds provided by the Morrill Act of 1862 , the Reconstruction-era Virginia General Assembly purchased

15376-713: Was tied for 19th overall by U.S. News & World Report in 2020. The Master of Information Technology program, jointly sponsored by the Pamplin College of Business and the College of Engineering, is ranked No. 4 in U.S. News & World Report ' s Best Online Graduate Computer Information Technology Programs. This interdisciplinary program is offered entirely online. Programs in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies (CAUS) include architecture + design, landscape architecture, urban planning, and public administration. In its 2016 "America's Best Architecture & Design Schools" report, DesignIntelligence ranked

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