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It is located at 1500 North Lombardy Street in Richmond's northside.


ATHLETICS

Virginia Union is perhaps most widely known for its NCAA Division II basketball program. Under the leadership of head coach Dave Robbins since 1978 , the "Panthers" have been to the "Final Four" eight times and have won three Division-II national championship titles ( 1980 , 1992 , 2005 ). The team was the 2006 National Runner Up with a record of 30 - 4. The team has also captured the CIAA conference championship a record 20 times.

Coach Robbins' program has also produced five NBA players, including Detroit Pistons star center Ben Wallace , and former New York Knicks Power Forward Charles Oakley .

Virginia Union's gymnasium, Barco-Stevens Hall, is located in the former Belgian Pavilion to the 1939/1940 World's Fair in New York . Due to the outbreak of World War II, the Pavilion could not be returned to Belgium. The Belgian government sponored a competition to determine the building's new home. VUU won, and the Pavilion moved to Richmond in 1941 as VUU's Belgian Friendship Building. The University's library was also located in the Belgian Friendship Building through 1997.


THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL

Virginia Union University's Theological training program is called "The Samuel L. DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University". This school shares some resources with the nearby Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School Of Christian Education and Baptist Theological Seminary At Richmond as the Richmond Theological Consortium .


NOTABLE ALUMNI



UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS


  • Dr. Malcolm MacVicar (First President, 1899-1904)

  • Dr. George Rice Hovey (Second President, 1904-1918)

  • Mr. William John Clark (Third President, 1919-1941)

  • Dr. John Malcus Ellison (Fourth President, 1941-1955)

  • ---Dr. Ellison was the first VUU alumnus to serve as President of the University.

  • Dr. Samuel Dewitt Proctor (Fifth President, 1955-1960)

  • Dr. Thomas Howard Henderson (Sixth President, 1960-1970)

  • Dr. Allix Bledsoe James (Seventh President, 1970-1979)

  • Dr. David Thomas Shannon (Eighth President, 1979-1985)

  • Dr. S. Dallas Simmons (Ninth President, 1985-1999)

  • Dr. Bernard Wayne Franklin (Tenth President, 1999-2003)

  • Dr. Belinda C. Anderson (Eleventh President, 2003-present)



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