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86-442: The Virginia Tech Foundation (VTF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit nonstock corporation established in 1948 to receive, manage, and disburse private gifts in support of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University programs. The purpose of the foundation is to manage private funds given for the support of the university, and to foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the university. The Virginia Tech Foundation

172-508: 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,

258-522: A Commandant ( Afrikaans : Kommandant ) was initially a crown over a five-pointed star. In 1957 the crown was replaced by a pentagonal castle device based on the floor plan of the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town , South Africa's oldest military building. In 1994, the rank of Commandant / Kommandant reverted to lieutenant colonel. From 1968 to 1970, a related rank, Chief Commandant , existed in

344-633: 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

430-610: 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,

516-417: 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

602-538: 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,

688-441: 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

774-475: 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

860-830: 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,

946-719: A medium size unit is referred to as the Commanding Officer (CO) while the smallest is Officer Commanding (OC). Example: In the Philippines , a Commandant is an appointment and not a rank but once selected, the appointee is promoted to the highest rank on the service. Commandants are appointed by the President of the Philippines either after the incumbent retires or as a replacement after dismissal. There are currently two Commandant appointments that exist in

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1032-593: 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

1118-640: 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

1204-632: A person could act as a Commandment of the Justices - an officer-in-charge. Colonel-commandant was an appointment which existed in the British Army between 1922 and 1928, and in the Royal Marines from 1755 to some time after World War II . It replaced brigadier-general in the army, and was itself replaced by brigadier in both the army and the Marines. The colonel-commandant is also

1290-470: 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

1376-414: 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

1462-559: 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

1548-699: 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)

1634-651: 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,

1720-645: Is an NPCC officer. This Area Commandant is also usually an Officer from one of the units in the area that he/she is taking charge of. In Sri Lanka, the Commandant of the Volunteer Force is the head of the Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force . Commandant is also the title used for the commanding officer ( one-star rank ) of military academies - Sri Lanka Military Academy , Naval and Maritime Academy and Air Force Academy - and

1806-721: Is governed by a 35-member Board of Directors and 4 ex-officio positions: the President of Virginia Tech, the Rector of the Board of Visitors, the President of the VT Alumni Association, and the President of the Virginia Tech Athletic Fund. The Virginia Tech Foundation, Inc. was established in 1948 to receive, manage , and disburse private gifts in support of Virginia Tech's programs. The purpose of

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1892-618: Is known as the Commandant. Commandant is a rank in the Central Armed Police Forces of India. It is equivalent to the rank of Colonel / Captain / Group Captain . In the Indian Coast Guard , ranks of Commandant and Commandant (Junior grade) exist. While Commandant is equivalent to Colonel/Captain/Group Captain, Commandant (Junior grade) is equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel/Commander/Wing Commander. In

1978-617: Is not any rank. It is an appointment. The commandant serves as the head of any military or merchant navy training institutes or unit. Commandant is the normal Canadian French -language term for the commanding officer of a mid-sized unit, such as a regiment or battalion, within the Canadian Forces . In smaller units, the commander is usually known in French as the officier commandant . Conversely, in Canadian English ,

2064-617: Is now chief officer. In the Voluntary Aid Organisation in World War I , the chief officer of a military hospital or voluntary aid detachment (VAD), whether male or female, held the title of commandant. In the United States, "commandant" is an appointment, not a rank, and the following three appointments currently exist: Formerly, admirals were appointed as commandants of naval districts . The commandant

2150-811: Is the commanding officer of a corps or regiment. Commandant is the head of the Special Task Force of the Sri Lanka Police . In the British Armed Forces , a commandant is usually the commanding officer of a training establishment, such as the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst or the Royal Air Force College Cranwell . In early 19th century England, the term commandant was used interchangeably with commandment - i.e.,

2236-630: Is the deputy commandant, who has the rank of lieutenant colonel. In the Royal Air Force Air Cadets , the officer in charge of the organisation is given the title Commandant Air Cadets and holds the position for two years. Formerly, commandant was the usual title for the head of the Special Constabulary within a police force. In some forces, the title was chief commandant, with subordinate divisional or sub-divisional commandants. The standard title for this position

2322-580: Is the second most senior officer (after the superintendent ) of United States Service academies , such as United States Military Academy , United States Naval Academy , and the United States Air Force Academy , equivalent to the dean of students at a civilian college. Commandant is also the title of the commanding officer of many units of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command , including

2408-473: Is the style, but not the rank, of the senior officers, specifically capitaine de corvette , capitaine de frégate and capitaine de vaisseau . In the German language , a military Kommandant is the commanding officer of a military installation (e.g. a fortress), vehicle, aircraft (the pilot is not always Kommandant , if another crew member has a higher rank) or vessel (e.g. U-Boot -Kommandant). In contrast to

2494-558: 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

2580-461: 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;

2666-759: The Command and Staff College . The title could also be used for other non-deploying units such as the Services Corrective Establishment in Burnham, or depot-level engineering units. The equivalent term for operational units is 'commander', such as commander of the Joint Force Headquarters New Zealand. Under the 2010 creation of the Training and Education Directorate, an additional position of commandant

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2752-681: The European Union to alleviate misunderstanding. In the Kenya Defence Forces Commandant is an appointment. Commandant is the title of the head of the training institutions . Examples include: In the National Police Service , the title of Commandant is reserved for commanders of large training institutions or commanders of large independent units. As with the Army, the post of a commander of

2838-617: The State Armed Police Forces , a Commandant serves as the head of an armed police battalion . The rank of Commandant is equivalent to that of a Superintendent of Police (SP). In the Irish Army , commandant (Comdt; Irish : ceannfort ) is the equivalent of major in other armies. Irish Army commandants can sometimes be referred to as major if serving overseas under the umbrella of the United Nations or

2924-961: 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

3010-683: 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

3096-510: 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

3182-726: 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

3268-465: 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

3354-534: The First World War, Commandant was used as a title by officers commanding Defence Rifle Association units, also known as Burgher commandos. The commandos were militia units raised in emergencies and constituted the third line of defence after the Permanent Force and the part-time Active Citizen Force regiments. The commandant rank was equivalent to major or lieutenant-colonel, depending on

3440-575: The Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) has made efforts to build capacity at the intersection of engineering, science, biology, and the humanities. Thrust areas include nuclear engineering, nanoscale science and engineering, nano-bio interface, sustainable energy, safe and sustainable water, national security, cognition and communication systems, renewable materials, and emerging technologies. Commandant In Bangladesh Armed Forces and Bangladesh Marine Academy commandant

3526-565: The Philippines namely: The Commandant of the Philippine Marine Corps will be promoted to the rank of Major General (Two-star Rank) once appointed while the Commandant of the Philippine Coast Guard will be promoted to the rank of an Admiral (Four-star Rank). In South Africa, Commandant was the title of the commanding officer of a commando (militia) unit in the 19th and early 20th centuries. During

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3612-530: 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

3698-623: 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

3784-525: 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

3870-479: 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

3956-510: 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

4042-548: 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

4128-552: The ceremonial head of some Army corps and this position is usually held by a senior general. Commandant was also the appointment, equivalent to commodore , held by the director of the Women's Royal Naval Service between 1951 and 1993. In the Army Cadet Force , a colonel is customarily the most senior commissioned officer in charge of an ACF county. This rank is thus known as the commandant and their second-in-command (2IC)

4214-460: 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

4300-479: 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

4386-762: The commanding officer ( two-star rank ) of the Defence Services Command and Staff College . It is also the title of the de facto vice-chancellor of the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University , usually an officer of two-star rank. Colonel-commandant is an honorary post in corps of the army and the Sri Lanka National Guard , similar to that of Colonel of the Regiment found in infantry regiments. The post of centre commandant

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4472-440: The commando forces . Recently, use of the term has followed the standard practice, i.e. the commanding officer of a training institute. In the New Zealand Defence Force , the term commandant is used for the senior officer (or commander) of garrisoned units that do not deploy and are not operational. This typically includes learning institutes such as the New Zealand Defence College , the New Zealand Cadet Force , and (formerly)

4558-572: 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

4644-403: 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

4730-411: 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

4816-442: 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,

4902-533: The field. They include the Naval War College , the USAF Air War College , the Army War College , the Marine Corps War College and the National War College . Commandant is the duty title for the commanding officer of the US Air Force Test Pilot School . Commandant is also the duty title of the senior enlisted leader of a Professional Military Education (PME) academy, such as the Airman Leadership School , Non-Commissioned Officer Academy, and Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Academy. The title may also be used for

4988-426: 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

5074-426: 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

5160-408: 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

5246-453: The foundation is to manage private funds given for the support of the Virginia Tech, and to foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the university. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 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

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5332-405: The governor, the fortress commandant of the Imperial German Army or the Wehrmacht never had higher but only lower jurisdiction. When subordinate to a governor, his duties were limited to garrison duty. Subordinate to him was the Platzmajor . In the navy of the Bundeswehr , commandants, including former commandants, wear the special commandant badge. When the commandant is active, it is worn on

5418-473: 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

5504-419: 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

5590-554: The non-commissioned officer academies, whose commandants are typically command sergeants major. Commandant is also the title of the ranking officer in charge of each War college of the United States military, and is responsible for the administration, academic progress and success of the civilians and military officers assigned to the college. The commandant is a model for all personnel, a military academy graduate of impeccable character and bearing who has demonstrated accomplishment in both academic excellence and active military service in

5676-456: The operations management of all fire brigades as long as this is not taken over by the higher-level operations management. In the Indian Armed Forces , 'Commandant' is not a rank but an appointment. Commandant is the title of the heads of the Training establishments. Examples include: In the Indian Army , the Commanding Officer of an armoured regiment or a Mechanized infantry regiment ( Mechanised Infantry Regiment , Brigade of The Guards )

5762-503: 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

5848-450: 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

5934-411: The right side of the chest above the breast pocket. Former commandants wear it on the left breast under the name tag. In Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria , Austria , Switzerland and South Tyrol , the head of the volunteer fire brigade is called the Kommandant . As such, he leads the fire brigade and is responsible for the training and deployment of his local fire brigade. In his own local area, he leads

6020-465: 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

6106-519: 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,

6192-583: The size of the commando. From 1950 to 1994 commandant (rank) was the rank equivalent of lieutenant colonel . and commander of a battalion . The rank was used by both the Army and the Air Force. The naval equivalent was commander ( Afrikaans : kommandeur ). The rank was not used by the South African Police , who continued with lieutenant colonel [luitenant-kolonel]. The rank insignia for

6278-417: 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

6364-470: 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

6450-761: 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

6536-579: 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

6622-459: 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

6708-781: 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

6794-540: The word commandant is used exclusively for the commanding officers of military units that provide oversight and/or services to a resident population (such as a military school or college, a long-term health care facility or a detention facility. In the French Army and French Air Force , the term commandant is used as a rank equivalent to major (NATO rank code OF-3). However, in the French Navy commandant

6880-1140: 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

6966-482: 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

7052-629: Was established for the Training Institute to complement the commandant of the Defence College. In the National Police Cadet Corps (NPCC), the position of Commandant is given to a Singapore Police Force officer who heads NPCC. The Commandant is aided by his Assistant Commandants, who are NPCC officers. As NPCC units around Singapore are divided into 20 "areas", each area is headed by an Area Commandant who

7138-661: 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

7224-535: 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

7310-860: 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

7396-713: 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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