Cliff Edwards, Beloved Founder of the VCU Religious Studies Program Retired After 47 Years

  Author: Brian McNeill, of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Public Affairs Department. Original web publication date: 7/20/2020 When I saw a notice that the “Beloved” Dr. Cliff Edwards was

A Confederacy of Dunces

Nothing Recedes Like Success*: A Confederacy of Dunces – Part I

I am pleased that Rebecca Jones, co-founder of the VCU Working Titles Book Club, has written the following commentary on John Kennedy Toole’s novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, which was

Poetic Panacea

Poetic Panacea: Final Poems From My Spring 2016 Workshop

Here are the last poems that were written by the senior-aged participants of my ten-week class for retired seniors at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Chesterfield, Virginia. I had taught

Murray Ellison, Aged 68, Receives VCU English Master of Arts Diploma in the Mail Today!

It finally came! After almost three years of going to night-school, part-time, at Virginia Commonwealth University(VCU) in Richmond, Virginia, my Master of Arts in English Diploma finally arrived in the mail today!