Longwood University
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| Motto | Docemus Docere (We Teach To Enlighten) |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | March 5, 1839 |
| Affiliation | AASCU |
| Endowment | $54.1 Million |
| President | W. Taylor Reveley IV |
| Rector | Robert S. Wertz Jr. |
| Students | 5,096 |
| Undergraduates | 4,574 |
| Postgraduates | 522 |
| Location | Farmville, Virginia, U.S. |
| Campus | Rural, 154-acre (623,215.9 m2) |
| Colors | Blue, White, Gray |
| Nickname | Lancers |
| Mascot | Elwood |
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Sporting affiliations
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NCAA Division I – Big South |
| Website | www |
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| Individual program accreditations | |
| Longwood Theatre program | National Association of Schools of Theatre. |
| Longwood Music department | National Association of Schools of Music |
| Nursing program | Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education |
| Individual program accreditations | |
| Initial Teacher Preparation | Council for the Accreditation of Educator Programs. |
| Athletic Training | Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education |
| Social Work | Council on Social Work Education |
| Therapeutic Recreation | National Recreation and Park Association |
| Individual program accreditations | |
| M.Ed. in reading, literacy and learning | Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation |
| M.Ed. in education | Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation |
| M.S. in communication sciences and disorders | Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association |
| M.Ed. in school librarianship | Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation |
Longwood University is a four-year public liberal arts university located in Farmville, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1839 as Farmville Female Seminary Association, it is the third-oldest public university in Virginia and one of the hundred oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. Longwood became a university on July 1, 2002.
Three undergraduate academic colleges—the Cook-Cole College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business and Economics, and the College of Education and Human Services—supported by the Cormier Honors College and coupled with the College of Graduate and Professional Studies serve an enrollment of 5,096.
The university occupies a unique geographic place in history: in early April 1865 both Gens. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant marched past the north end of campus on Lee's retreat to Appomattox just days before the end of the American Civil War; at the south end of campus lies the former Robert Russa Moton High School, site of the historic 1951 student strike that became one of the five court cases culminating in the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision; and Israel Hill, a community of free black people formed around the turn of the 19th century, stands two miles from campus.
Longwood was founded in 1839 as the Farmville Female Seminary Association. Led by Solomon Lea, a Methodist Minister who had taught at Randolph–Macon College, the school flourished. Lea left to become the first president of Greensboro Female Seminary (now Greensboro College) in his native North Carolina, and several presidents and name changes followed in the subsequent decades. Led by a number of Methodist ministers, the school offered English, Latin, Greek, French, and piano.
As was common among female seminaries during Reconstruction, Farmville Female College, as the institution was then known, fell into a period of deep financial difficulty. The decade following the Civil War saw many seminaries around the South shutter their doors. The college was given new life on June 5, 1875, with a new charter granted and the college renamed Farmville College. Rev. Paul Whitehead, a minister from nearby Nelson County, Virginia who had been president of Wesleyan Female College at Murfreesboro, N.C., was appointed president. Under Whitehead, enrollment grew by nearly half, topping 100 students in 1876. Whitehead resigned in 1872 to return to full-time ministry.
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