Community partners
As part of an urban university, the College of Humanities and Sciences works to build strong relations with the community — both in Richmond and around the world — to create opportunities for learning among students, faculty and scholars, and our neighbors. Our faculty members partner with schools, public agencies, nonprofit organizations and civic associations to solve problems and our students learn by providing service in the community.
Explore the links below to learn more about the resources provided through our faculty expertise and student volunteers, as well as community-oriented academic courses and lecture series designed to educate the public.
College initiatives and partnerships +
- Blake Lecture
- Center for Cultural Experiences in Prevention
- Center for Psychological Services and Development
- College Community Advisory Council
- DataShare
- East End Partnership with Families
- Excellence in Virginia Government Awards
- Family Support and Research Center
- Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute
- Language services
- Life Skills Center
- Neighborhoods in Bloom [pdf]
- Office for Language and Cultural Competence
- Peep This
- Performance Management Group
- Science, Technology and Society series
- Survey and Evaluation Research Laboratory
- VCU Clark-Hill Institute for Positive Youth Development
- Virginia Governor’s Foreign Language Academies
Other campus initiatives +
- Carver Promise Program
- Carver-VCU Partnership
- Center for Clinical and Translational Research
- Center on Health Disparities
- Center for School-Community Collaboration
- Commonwealth Educational Policy Institute
- Community Nursing Organization
- Division for Health Sciences Diversity
- FIRST Robotics competition
- Mary and Frances Youth Center
- Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium
- Richmond Area Program for Minorities in Engineering
- The Commonwealth Society
- Virginia Department of Education’s Training and Technical Assistance Center at VCU
- Virginia Treatment Center for Children
- Worlds for Information Technology and Science
Community and national resources +
- America Reads
- AmeriCorps
- City of Richmond Volunteer Connection
- Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
- ConnectNetwork
- Hands On Greater Richmond
- Leadership Metro Richmond
- Office on Volunteerism and Community Service
- Partnership for Nonprofit Excellence
- Richmond.com
- Richmond Forum
- The Community Foundation
- United Way of Greater Richmond and Petersburg
- University of Richmond events
- Virginia Mentoring Partnership
Academics +
- Department of African American Studies
- Department of History
- Department of Psychology
- Bachelor of Science in Psychology
- Graduate programs in clinical and counseling psychology
- L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs
- Bachelor of Arts in Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
- Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice
- Bachelor of Science in Sociology
- Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Studies
- Post-baccalaureate Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems
- Post-baccalaureate Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation Planning
- Post-baccalaureate Graduate Certificate in Urban Revitalization
- Master of Public Administration
- Master of Science in Criminal Justice
- Master of Science in Sociology
- Master of Urban and Regional Planning
- Minor in nonprofit management and administration
- Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration
- Post-baccalaureate Graduate Certificate in nonprofit management
- Post-baccalaureate Graduate Certificate Gender Violence Intervention
- School of World Studies
- Service-learning
