Qualla: Southern Virginia University https://qualla.com/southern-virginia-university en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/w/southern-virginia-university-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Southern Virginia University https://qualla.com/southern-virginia-university Southern Virginia University: Introduction https://qualla.com/southern-virginia-university/ Photo credit Mpspqr at English Wikipedia, Public domain. On June 11, 2020, three weeks after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, the trustees of Southern Virginia University voted to take a man's name off their main academic building. The building had been the Durham Academic Building since 1919, when Robert Lee Durham bought a half-interest in the school. The university statement called Durham's racial views indefensible. The building's name reverted to something simpler: the Academic Center. It would be renamed properly, the statement said, once a new name was chosen. As of this writing, the building is still the Academic Center. That is the kind of place Southern Virginia is. A small Latter-day Saint-values college tucked into a Mexican-American War-named town in a Confederate-monument valley, trying to figure out which parts of its past it wants to keep.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/w/southern-virginia-university-wp/dnxw-southern-virginia-university-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Southern Virginia University: From Bowling Green to Buena Vista https://qualla.com/southern-virginia-university/ Photo credit Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain. The school began in 1867, two years after Appomattox, when Alice Scott Chandler founded the Home School for Girls in Bowling Green, Virginia. It was a for-profit institution, which is what most schools were in the long economic afterward of Reconstruction. The name shifted to Bow...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/w/southern-virginia-university-wp/dnxw-southern-virginia-university-from-bowling-green-to-buena-vista.mp3 0:06 2 full Southern Virginia University: The Religion That Isn't Official https://qualla.com/southern-virginia-university/ Photo credit Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain. Southern Virginia is not officially affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It embraces, in the careful phrasing of its own materials, LDS values. That distinction matters legally and doesn't really matter culturally. The campus operates an LDS Institute ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/w/southern-virginia-university-wp/dnxw-southern-virginia-university-the-religion-that-isnt-official.mp3 0:06 3 full Southern Virginia University: Knights and Choirs https://qualla.com/southern-virginia-university/ Photo credit Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain. The athletic teams are the Knights, which competes in NCAA Division III as part of the USA South Athletic Conference, with men's volleyball in the Continental Volleyball Conference and men's wrestling in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. In 2017, the university officially cha...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/x/w/southern-virginia-university-wp/dnxw-southern-virginia-university-knights-and-choirs.mp3 0:06 4 full Southern Virginia University: Notable Names https://qualla.com/southern-virginia-university/ Photo credit Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain. Ed Mulitalo, who played in Super Bowl XXXV with the Baltimore Ravens, taught here as faculty. So did Orson Scott Card, whose novel Ender's Game has been on so many high school reading lists that a generation of students arrived having already read their professor. Jeff Benedict, ...

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