Farmville Female Seminary (1839–1860) Farmville Female College (1860–1875) Farmville College (1875–1884) State Female Normal School (1884–1914) State Normal School for Women (1914–1924) State Teachers College (1924–1949) Longwood College (1949–2002)
Motto
Docemus Docere (Latin)
Motto in English
"We Teach To Enlighten"
Type
Public university
Established
March 5, 1839; 185 years ago (1839-03-05)[1]
Accreditation
SACS
Academic affiliation
SCHEV
Endowment
$90.5 million[2]
President
W. Taylor Reveley IV[3]
Rector
Katharine M. Bond ’98[4]
Students
5,096
Undergraduates
4,574
Postgraduates
522
Location
Farmville
,
Virginia
,
United States
Campus
Remote town, 154 acres (0.62 km2)
Newspaper
The Rotunda
Colors
Blue and white[5]
Nickname
Lancers
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division I – Big South
MAC
Mascot
Elwood
Website
longwood.edu
Longwood University is a public university in Farmville, Virginia. Founded in 1839 as Farmville Female Seminary and colloquially known as Longwood or Longwood College, it is the third-oldest public university in Virginia and one of the hundred oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. Previously a female seminary, normal school, and college, Longwood became coeducational in 1976 and gained university status 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.
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;[6] 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;[7] and Israel Hill, a community of free African Americans that formed around the turn of the 19th century,[8] stands two miles from campus.
^"Longwood and its Programs". Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
^"Data USA: Longwood University". Data USA. October 4, 2023.
^"Longwood Presidency". Longwood University. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
^"Board of Visitors". Longwood University. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
^Longwood University Visual Brand Guide(PDF). Retrieved November 10, 2022.
^"Southside Va. and Lee's Retreat". Civil War Traveler. 2014. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
^"The Forgotten School in Brown v. Board of Education". The Atlantic. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
^"Israel Hill on the Appomattox". Prince Edward County. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
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