Hollins University

7916 Williamson Rd Nw, Roanoke, VA 24020 -  View Map

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• The Hollins community sustains talented students engaged in challenging study, and productive scholars and artists devoted to teaching and to the advancement of knowledge. Experiential learning, study abroad, and internships enhance the academic program. The hallmarks of a Hollins education are creativity and effective self-expression, problem solving and critical thinking skills, and independent inquiry and the free exchange of ideas. Our university motto, Levavi Oculos, calls us to leadership and service in accord with the Hollins values and traditions.
• Hollins offers engaging academic programs in 29 majors, superior teaching, and extensive study abroad, leadership, internship, and service opportunities. Currently Hollins offers graduate programs in creative writing (M.F.A.), liberal studies, children’s literature, teaching, and screenwriting and film studies.
• Hollins was named one of “America’s 25 hot schools” in the 2005 Kaplan/Newsweek How to Get Into College Guide. Hollins received an academic rating of four out of a possible four stars in the 2005 edition of The Princeton Review’s The Best 357 Colleges
• Cooperative learning. Shared success. Timeless traditions. The fabric of life at Hollins has many threads, yet the pattern is harmonious. People respect and appreciate each other here -- and care, too. It's not an atmosphere that is created consciously. It's as spontaneous as a late-night trip to Walmart in pajamas; or painting messages on The Rock, Hollins' version of a message board; or dying your hair with multicolors on a bet. Everyday life at Hollins can be a bit zany. But we like to think of it as just another expression of our unique creativity.
• Hollins University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the degrees of bachelor of arts, master of arts, master of fine arts, and certificate of advanced studies. Hollins is on the approved list of the American Association of University Women.
• Profile last updated: 00/00/0000.

In the News:

• Hollins University meets $5 million fundraising challenge (WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke)
  posted on July 15, 2011 at 11:30:54 pm
  The money will go to enhance scholarships for students who want to take part in Hollins' Batten Leadership Institute
• Applause for Saturday, June 18 (The Fayetteville Observer)
  posted on June 18, 2011 at 04:09:56 am
  Elijah Bresley of Fayetteville graduated cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in political science from The College of Wooster in Ohio on May 16. Joseph Alan Hasinger of Fayetteville received a master's of fine arts degree in creative writing from Hollins University in Roanoke, Va.
• Hollins University graduates 244 (WDBJ 7 Roanoke)
  posted on May 22, 2011 at 10:59:25 pm
  The 2011 Graduates at Hollins University in Roanoke got their diplomas Sunday.
• April Marcell Drummond is the storyteller of Leon Street - www.roanoke.com (Roanoke Times)
  posted on April 24, 2011 at 04:05:48 am
  The Hollins University senior, a single mom from Roanoke's Rugby neighborhood, is a playwright and filmmaker getting national renown. It's fitting, with a person this unusual, to get the facts out of the way early, give the story some room to breathe: At 43, April Marcell Drummond is a senior at Hollins University, a playwright and director already sought by professional theater companies, a ...
• Honor Student Announced At Hollins (Rockbridge Weekly)
  posted on February 15, 2011 at 08:18:57 pm
  Roanoke, Va – Mary Kate Claytor, a sophomore studio art major at Hollins University, has been named an Honor Student for the 2010 Fall Semester. To attain this distinction, students must earn at least a 3.5 average on a 4.0 grading scale.

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