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VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE
Men’s Basketball competes in fifth straight Sweet 16 Postseason success leads Men’s Basketball to Ashland, VA to take on Dickenson College. BY MICHAEL WILLSON mnwillson@vwc.edu
The Virginia Wesleyan Men’s Basketball team competed this past weekend for its first two rounds of the NCAA Division III Tournament at William Paterson University. The first game was against the Blue Streaks of John Carroll University, on Friday, March 6. The Marlins won with a score of 101-86. The second game was a win over the host team, the Pioneers of William Paterson University, on Saturday, March 7. The Marlins ended that game with a close score of 77-74. “I think going on the road in the NCAA Tournament is a tough challenge, and we really need to come together as a team and play a consistent forty minutes of basketball,” Head Coach Dave Macedo said. In addition to facing the challenge of opening on the road, the team started the tournament shortly after losing the ODAC Championship game against the Yellow Jackets of Randolph Macon College. “Our biggest challenge will be moving forward from a tough loss, turning the page, and just getting back to work and grounding it out. You can’t worry about a tough loss, no matter where we travel or if we’re home. We got a tournament to play and it’s a new season,” Assistant Coach Rhett Bonner said. The team has moved on from that tough loss and showed it through several highlights in the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. The sophomore class showed
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Recent bad weather makes life difficult for students, professors BY BRIAN LE btle@vwc.edu
Virginia Wesleyan College has experienced five snow days in the span of two weeks. The recent snowfall has made it very difficult for students and faculty to get back into their normal routines. At first, the snow days were seen as an extended winter break, but the consequences of those days off have quickly turned into burdens for students. Class time has been lost, deadlines for assignments have been delayed and exams have been pushed back, all as a result of the snow. “I have enjoyed [the] time off from my classes, but I don’t want to get any further behind,” said sophomore Amanda Baxter. It seems that the time off has been enough and that students are ready to get back into the swing of things. Unfortunately, many professors have altered their syllabi in order to accommodate for lost time and material. Consequently, students have been scrambling to play catch up. “My class schedules have really been crammed up by the snow days because deadlines have been pushed back from their original dates,” said freshmen Luke Wentling.
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The college will welcome the newly appointed president, Dr. Scott D. Miller, to campus on Monday, March 23 and Tuesday, March 24.
It’s “Miller Time” A journalist at heart and an educator by choice, Dr. Scott D. Miller will become Virginia Wesleyan’s fourth president this summer. BY ANDREW PETREY awpetrey@vwc.edu & BYJESSICA MACKEY jlmackey@vwc.edu
After current President William Greer’s retirement announcement last summer, a nationwide search resulted in Dr. Scott D. Miller being named the next president of Virginia Wesleyan College on Feb. 25. The search committee was composed of faculty, staff, alumni representatives and a student. The committee sought a candidate with a strong record of leadership who was a passionate advocate of the values and ideals of the liberal arts. Dr. Miller exemplifies such criteria with his extensive college leadership skills. “I’m in my 24th year as a college president and have served three excellent liberal arts institutions—Lincoln Memorial University, Wesley College, and Bethany College,” Dr. Miller said. “I’m known around the country as one of the most entrepreneurial and innovative campus leaders, and my experience has prepared me well for the tremendous opportunities that I know we have at VWC. With its strong reputation and fantastic location, the College has those opportunities in abundance. I can’t wait to get started!” Dr. Miller will be the fourth president in Virginia Wesleyan College’s 53-year history. He follows President Greer’s 23-year tenure here at the college.
“In a few words, I’m competitive, hardworking, and totally committed to the distinctive experiences offered by small, residential, liberal arts colleges,” Dr. Miller describes. “I have high standards for the institutions I serve and for myself, yet I also enjoy the job tremendously. Each day is an adventure, enriched by the devotion of campus constituents—students, faculty, staff members, families, alumni, and many others—whom I’ve been privileged to work with over the years.” After earning his B.A. degree in communication from West Virginia Wesleyan College he worked as a journalist, later earning an M.A. from the University of Dayton, Ed.S. from Vanderbilt University, and Ph.D. from the Union Institute and University. “As noted, I love to write,” Dr. Miller said. “My first column in college, ‘Miller Time,’ was sports-related, and a few years ago I finally abandoned my reporter’s notebook, which I still carried each day, for my iPad. Now I write on many highereducation topics of national and often regional relevance. I also feel that because a college president is to a large extent the public face of the institution, it’s important from a marketing and external-relations perspective to promote the campus via social media and other communication avenues. People tend to pay attention when a college president goes on the record, and the tools we have now for expanding communication and building new relationships will benefit Virginia Wesleyan in many exciting new ways.” In addition to his commitment as a higher-education leader Dr. Miller is a well-known sought mentor, presenter, and author on higher education topics such as
financial sustainability and presidential performance for national conferences and trade journals. While remaining a regular columnist for the Huffington Post and scholarly journals, he maintains a daily blog, Dialogue, a campus-wide morning message, Nota Bene, and an e-newsletter, The President`s Letter. Dr. Miller is excited to be joining the Virginia Wesleyan College community and bringing in a new era of college communication geared toward the student demographic. “If experience at Bethany is a guide, my presence on social media will produce enhanced opportunities for enrollment, fundraising, alumni relations, and daily communications with the campus community,” Dr. Miller said. “Competition for our audiences’ attention is growing. Timing is often everything. In our age of instant news and information updates, social media such as presidential e-letters, blogs, Twitter, Flicker, LinkedIn and Facebook increase frequency and quality of communication to current and prospective students and the wider campus community at little or no cost. An essential goal of colleges and universities today is to increase their institutional profile, and we need to use these technologies to attract the interest and resources we need at VWC as we go forward.” Although Dr. Miller is bringing years of experience with him to the campus community, he says every school is unique in its own right. “All colleges are different, and one important lesson I’ve learned is that “one size doesn’t fit all,” Dr. Miller said. “The
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