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Details for Virginia Wesleyan College
Communicating Participant
Type of Organization
Liberal Arts College
Type of Education
Undergraduate
Institution is part of
Not Available
Location
Norfolk, VA, United States
Website
Sign up Date To PRME
25 Feb 2009
Last Sharing Information on Progress Report Submission
15 Aug 2012
Sharing Information on Progress (2012)
VWC 2012 SIP Report - View Report
Virginia Wesleyan College 2012 Sharing Information on Progress Report
Sharing Information on Progress (2010)
Virginia Wesleyan College 2010 SIP Report - View Report
This is Virginia Wesleyan College's initial SIP Report.
Achievements Curriculum Integration in the Field of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
Our Liberal Arts Management Program is an Interdisciplinary major which integrates the liberal arts with management education. Included in our major curriculum is a required Senior Seminar in Managerial Ethics (MBE 400) as well as a required allied course in Environmental Literacy. Included in our students' general education graduation requirements is a course on Ethical Values and Faith Perspectives as well as a course on Institutional and Cultural Systems. The faculty is currently discussing a proposal to move to a four course-four credit system which will allow us to integrate more service learning and business outreach into our courses. Our full-time senior internship program exposes many of our students to the rigors and challenges of the workplace prior to graduation.
Achievements Research Development in the Field of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
As a primarily teaching college, Virginia Wesleyan College faculty historically have not been required to undertake significant research on top of our considerable teaching load. However, recent revisions to our promotion and tenure policies have begun to increase the expected degree of research as our teaching load has been reduced. Our faculty have undertaken research on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, diversity programs in major US companies, and a handful of other related topics. Increasingly, our research efforts will be expanded to include our students and will gravitate toward sustainability and other issues as addressed in the UN Global Compact. We are also in the early stages of an outreach program with local business leaders in on-campus panel discussions such as our upcoming "Ethical Management in an Economic Recession" in April.
