- U.S. News & World Report ranks Lynchburg College in the top tier of Southern universities and colleges that offer a full range of undergraduate programs and master's degrees in its America's Best Colleges 2008 publication. [More]
- The Princeton Review recognizes the College in its publication, Best 366 Colleges (2008 edition). [More]
- The College is one of forty colleges nationwide featured in Colleges That Change Lives by Loren Pope, former New York Times education editor. [More]
- Lynchburg College is one of only 100 American colleges and universities named
to the Honor Roll of Character Building Colleges in The Templeton Guide: Colleges That Encourage Character Development. LC's volunteer service program is one of sixty in the nation recognized in the publication. [More] - Lynchburg College students performed better than 90 percent of their peers at more than 300 colleges and universities participating in a new Collegiate Learning Assessment by the Council for Aid to Education. [More]
- The National Review College Guide recognizes LC as one of America's top fifty liberal arts colleges and one of the best buys in higher education.
- President Kenneth Garren is serving a one-year term as chair of the Council of Independent Colleges of Virginia (CICV) and is one of seven elected Virginia commissioners with the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges & Schools (SACS). [More]
- Lynchburg College is one of fifty institutions nationwide participating in the Bonner Leaders Program sponsored by The Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation through which selected students receive scholarships to engage in community service, service learning, and community-based research. [More]
- The Burton Dining Room and the Westover Room won silver and gold medals in the 2006 Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards competition sponsored by the National Association of College and University Food Services. LC's dining services have won five awards since 2000 and a total of fifteen awards since 1990. [More]
- Dr. Dan Messerschmidt, professor of economics, serves on Virginia Governor Tim Kaine's Governor's Advisory Board of Economists. Dr. Messerschmidt was first appointed to the board by former Governor Mark Warner.
- John Marks '10 (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Bobby Stephenson '08 (Felton, Del.) were among 50 students nationwide selected to participate in the Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Program, an American history research program in New York City, during the summer of 2007. [More]
- Dr. Timothy Laurent, associate dean for academic affairs and associate professor of athletic training, received the 2007 Athletic Training Service Award from the National Athletic Trainers' Association. [More]
- Dr. James J.H. Price, professor of religious studies, is the recipient of the 2006 T. A. Abbott Award for Faculty Excellence, presented by the Board of Directors of Higher Education and Leadership Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the most prestigious recognition given to faculty members of the fourteen institutions of higher learning affiliated with the denomination. Dr. Elza Tiner, professor of English, received the award in 2005. [More]
- Katie Goode '08 (Gloucester, Va.), Charles Hawthorne '08 (Petersburg, Va.), and Niki Ozment '08 (Broad Run, Va.) were among 30 top students from 14 different colleges and universities selected to participate in the Phoenix Project's 2007 Nonprofit Leadership Program.
- Dr. Conny Roussos, professor of computer science, received a Fulbright Scholarship to work at Mar Athanosios University in India during the summer of 2007. This was Dr. Roussos' second Fulbright, making him the tenth Lynchburg College faculty member to be so honored.
- Caroline Wesley '07 (Baltimore, Md.) became the second recent Lynchburg College graduate to receive a prestigious NCAA post-graduate scholarship and was a first-team ESPN The Magazine College Division Academic All-District III honoree. [More]
- Dr. Jong H. Kim, professor of music and director of choral activities/ vocal studies, served as guest conductor for the Daejeon Philharmonic Choir, one of South Korea's top professional choirs. Each year, the prestigious choir invites a guest conductor from Europe or America for one of its concerts. [More]
- Dr. David Murphy, professor of accounting, was selected a winner in the educator category in Virginia Business magazine's "Super CPA" contest, sponsored by the magazine and the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants, for the second consecutive year.
- Dr. Laura Long, assistant professor of English, is the recipient of a Pforzheimer Fellowship from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin to support research for her book on the first female astronomer, Lady of Comets: The Lives of Caroline Herschel. Dr. Long also received a competitive fellowship from the National Humanities Center to participate in its Summer Institute in Literary Studies. [More]
- The VFIC (Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges) awarded research grants to two Lynchburg College students and a faculty member in 2007: Christopher Wood '10 (Bedford, Va.), Crystal Moorman '08 (Forest, Va.), and Dr. Nichole Sanders, assistant professor of Latin American history. Chris Murray '08 ( Madison Heights, Va.) and Andrew Throckmorton '08 (Midlothian, Va.) are winners of the 2007-08 VFIC/Witt Mares Scholarship Program competition.
- Michael Carpenter, sports information director, was named 2006-07 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Sports Information Director of the Year.
- LC's Hornets earned 2006-07 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) titles in men's soccer, men's indoor and outdoor track and field, field hockey, and softball. The softball team advanced to the regional finals of the NCAA Tournament while the field hockey and men's soccer teams received berths to NCAA Playoff competition. Dr. Jack Toms '69 garnered three Coach of the Year honors: ODAC Men's Indoor Track and Field, ODAC men's outdoor track and field, and South/Southeast Region men's indoor track and field. Chris Yeager was named ODAC men's soccer coach of the year, and Enza Steele received the ODAC field hockey coach of the year award. Five student athletes were named NCAA III All-Americans: Ryan Cranston '08, Caroline Cubbage '07, Brandon Fell '08, Ryan Holmes '08, and Andy Rollins '06. Eleven players also earned all-region honors in 2006-07.
