SPCS Updates Stories

Julian Cline, an SPCS student completing a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts, has launched an interdisciplinary podcast titled Destinations and Conversations that seeks to explore current events through the expertise of University of Richmond faculty. Cline’s inaugural podcast episode, an interview with Dr. Edward Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus, is now available, hosted through Boatwright Library’s UR Scholarship repository.

Brief update on what Partners in the Arts is doing and planning for the Richmond region’s educators, artists, teachers, schools and school divisions.

Graduate students and high school educators Kara Boltz, Stephanie Erickson, Meg Heyssel and Melissa Ligh recently published field narratives, “Four High School Teachers Contemplate AI,” in The Peer Review, a journal for writing center and writing studies professionals. Their narratives originated in Adjunct Professor Joe Essid’s Spring 2025 “Writing With and About AI” course and focus on their experience of using generative AI in their classrooms.

Brief update on what Partners in the Arts is doing and planning for the Richmond region’s educators, artists, teachers, schools and school divisions.

This year, associate professor and graduate education chair Tom Shields gathered a group of academics, non-profit leaders, and housing advocates to write an updated research report focusing on the current state of education and housing segregation in the Richmond metropolitan region.

SPCS hosted a Celebration in the Red Zone at Robins Stadium during the 2024 Homecoming game between the Richmond Spiders and the Towson Tigers on November 2.

In May, then-Associate Dean Tom Shields of SPCS and Professor Pierre Tulowitzki of the University of Applied Sciences & Arts, Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) led a public conversation titled “Public or Private Good: Comparisons of Higher Education in Switzerland and the U.S.”

The fall 2024 schedule of SPCS academic classes is now available for viewing online. BannerWeb registration opens on Wednesday, July 10.