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The unfiltered approach—asking black students to speak frankly to black students—was advanced especially by administrator Paul Saunier, the politically astute former journalist, campaign publicist and congressional aide charged with helping to integrate UVA.

In an era better known for intransigence and strife, Saunier shrewdly favored consultation over confrontation, engagement over enforcement, straight talk over lip service. He was remembered as an instrumental but mostly behind-the-scenes member of the group of administrators led by President Edgar Shannon who were determined to change the University from a nearly all-white and nearly all-male institution.

Shannon hired Saunier in , barely a year into his presidency. Ern was dean of admission and later vice president for student affairs and senior vice president. It was slow going. Graduate programs and professional schools consistently had a few black students in those years, but College enrollment had gone from zero in to just enough to be counted on one hand by Thomas, who in became the first African-American justice of the Virginia Supreme Court, recalls how Shannon included him in a student leadership retreat when he was president of the Black Students for Freedom in his second year at UVA.

Keeping African-American students out of white colleges was a prime component of the Virginia culture that historian J. Douglas Smith addressed in his book Managing White Supremacy. Regularly replenished by the legislature, that pot of money paid qualified African-American scholars to leave Virginia for decades, and it kept the color line in place.

By consistently analyzing existing data, as well as regional and state-level demand for specific employer needs, we will keep our programs aligned with our recruitment, retention, and graduation goals.

Utilizing the analyses to inform ongoing strategic decisions as it relates to opportunities for program expansions along with the identification of new student populations, UVA Wise will also stay informed of opportunities for new partnerships in support of experiential learning and post-graduate job opportunities. Leverage the unique assets and expertise of UVA to support the strategic plans for the College at Wise. By co-creating a plan for program-based collaboration, jointly-led initiatives, and shared resources, we will realize collective impact through meaningful partnerships.

Attracting, supporting, and retaining a diverse and talented team of faculty and staff who are dedicated to the educational mission of UVA Wise is essential. We aim for a campus culture wherein all employees — full time or part time, professor, counselor, coach, officer, administrator, director, mentor, advisor, assistant, housekeeper, landscaping crew, or facilities managers -- know they are valued and believe they are important members of the team that nurtures the growth of our students.

We realize that retaining a quality team requires investment in their preparation and training, as well as the acknowledgment that their needs extend beyond the boundaries of our campus.

Therefore, we will strengthen our habit of listening and seeking to understand how we might fully support the needs and address the concerns of our faculty and staff. Recognizing that inclusive excellence is an ongoing, collaborative process uniting students, faculty, staff, and alumni, we will use our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategic plan developed in as the foundation for creating an intentional process that incorporates goals for diversity into the hiring plan.

The Center will provide the infrastructure to support training and professional development of faculty and staff and fully equip them to deliver the educational mission of UVA Wise. The Center for Educational Excellence and Innovation CEEI will be led by a team of faculty and staff trained in designing and developing instructional programming based on the needs of our College and professional development based on the needs of our employees. In addition, a branch of the Center will target the professional development of our students who are interested in pursuing any campus leadership opportunities e.

Our goal will be to prepare each new employee with the full range of tools available to do their jobs well and with efficiency and to provide a mentor who will steer them toward resources and provide support as they navigate the challenges of a new community. Develop a Faculty Mentorship Program. Aimed at fostering a collegial and trusting environment and acclimating new faculty to all facets of their responsibilities, the program will be characterized by a reciprocal process for sharing experiences among senior and junior faculty, providing formative feedback to junior faculty and introducing senior faculty to new pedagogies and technologies.

Create a Differentiated Faculty Workload Plan. Teaching loads will be determined through evaluation of the productivity of a faculty member using a holistic approach and with the particular needs of each discipline in mind. On the belief that connecting the local community with the endless potential of our UVA Wise students, faculty and staff will create benefits for all, a committee of UVA Wise employees and community and regional leaders, established in the academic year, will work to inform the community and the College of ways to enhance engagement.

An additional goal will be to co-create programming, projects and other factors conducive to vibrancy in the Town of Wise and surrounding region. Members will be tasked with researching other rural areas and peer institutions and with analyzing best practices to see what could be applicable for our area.

Our primary focus will be on establishing relationships, building on current partnerships and identifying, with a holistic approach, what our communities envision for the future. The very existence of UVA Wise is dependent on successful recruitment and retention of students. Therefore, in the next decade we will aim to increase our undergraduate population of full-time students, introduce programs with flexible schedules and course modalities that meet the needs of adult learners, and establish a graduate studies division that offers opportunities for advanced degrees in the region and beyond.

We will also put in place best practices for the retention and timely graduation of all students. Develop a comprehensive, data-informed model of student recruitment for our undergraduate programs. Starting with the acknowledgment that our primary recruitment areas are SWVA and the ARC, and rural and suburban regions across Virginia, we will sharpen our admissions focus on students interested in attending an undergraduate institution in a rural setting, with a public liberal arts mission, and characterized by a highly personalized mode of student development.

We will also expand our transfer and nontraditional student populations with careful attention to the programs and pathways that serve their needs. Solidify our recruitment approach to transfer students. In particular, we will work to strengthen our partnerships with regional community colleges as together we build pipelines for students toward baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate degrees.

We will continue to rely on the Transfer VA initiative as an important driver in this effort. Determine a strategy to address the needs of adult learners through degree completion and certificate programs. Building on the remarkable success of our Center for Teaching Excellence that serves provisionally licensed and licensed teachers throughout the Commonwealth , we will seek understanding of degree and certificate programs that would attract adult learners.

In that moment, the fate of Bash and his family changed forever. Within weeks, Bash stepped down as principal and returned to graduate school at his beloved alma mater, the University of Virginia, devoting the rest of his career to seeking equal education for all.

Bash experienced firsthand how efforts to desegregate public schools, in Prince Edward County and throughout Virginia, were painful and slow in the s.

In spite of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling 2 by the U. The City of Charlottesville also maintained racially separate public schools for Black and white students until the fall of , when Virginia Gov. The overwhelming majority of Black students, however, continued to attend the nearby all-Black Jefferson Elementary and Jackson P.

Burley High schools. Across town, the University of Virginia remained open only to white men through the early s. As the civil rights movement gained momentum throughout the South, the federal government yielded to political pressures to support desegregation in K public schools and colleges. In , President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act that included the Title IV provision to provide technical assistance and funding for states to achieve public school integration.

Title IV authorized the creation of 27 national education sites to carry out this work. The mission of these sites — known as Consultative Resource Centers, or CRCs — was to support state and local schools on a district-by-district basis during the challenging transition of desegregating K public schools. Its mission was to provide customized technical assistance and in-service training for administrators, teachers and K school staffs in Virginia and the region.

It closed quietly in Johnson; and Howard W. Bash was the key architect who wrote the first CRC grant; he credited support from the Phi Delta Kappa Commission on Education, Human Rights and Responsibilities as crucial to his success with initial grant writing and funding. He joined the school faculty after completing his doctoral studies at the University, supported by a Southern Education Foundation Fellowship.

Johnson House at Hereford College on Grounds bears his name today, to acknowledge his scholarly influence and leadership during the era. When Bash stepped down as director in , Curry Dean Ralph Cherry managed the center until appointing Allen as its director in Allen led the CRC staff until the center closed in , when the federal government instead funded a regional gender equity center at American University in Washington, D. Allen, like Johnson, had a noteworthy career in Black school communities before coming to Charlottesville to complete his educational doctorate.

With these materials, teachers and school personnel participated in small-group discussions and activities, received individual coaching and gained feedback on developing strategies to deal with teaching Black and white students together in newly desegregated schools.

From the start, gaining access to most local school personnel was challenging. The Deseg Center staff relied heavily on invitations from school division superintendents to visit local sites and to conduct training workshops within its schools. After gaining access, center staff distributed materials personally during visits to schools and district offices; monographs were also sent to other CRC library sites around the country.

Allen supervised a series of CRC newsletters that were sent periodically to key stakeholders across the commonwealth to spread the word of activities and progress. Yet, the Deseg Center struggled to reach many schools, as resistance to change took many forms.