Work Program Architects Design World-Class Campus

Experiences & Establishes Endowment

Work Program Architects (WPA) was founded in 2010 by Mel Price and Thom White. Price serves as WPA’s CEO and managing principal. Its mission is to strengthen community through a collaborative design process.

Alumni Couple Establish Endowment Fund for

First-Generation College Students

John and Temesha McNeill met and fell in love while they were students at Norfolk State University. They exhibit a nurturing spirit, not only toward family and NSU, but for people in general especially married couples.

Alumni Business Partners

Share Legacy Planning

Anthony Epps ’73 and Michael Gray ’79 are business partners, long-time friends, NSU alumni and financial and estate planners. Epps majored in sociology and Gray majored in business administration with an emphasis in marketing.

Alumnus, Former DNIMAS Undergraduate

Inducted into the Emerald Society

Dr. Robert Scott has always been drawn to the sciences. Selected for enrollment in Norfolk State University’s Dozoretz National Institute for Mathematics and Applied Sciences (DNIMAS) program, the academic journey set his feet on a path that changed his life

Alumna Creates Endowed Scholarship In Mothers Honor

Norfolk State University alumna Brenda Williams’ mother and role model, Emma Ruth Williams, shared Mann’s belief. “My mother, despite having only a 10th grade education, was a firm believer in the power of education,” recollects Williams.

Old Donation Church Family

Old Donation Church’s now retired rector, Rev. Robert J. Randall, Daniel and Nancy Ries and other church leaders elected to establish an endowed scholarship at Norfolk State University after recently discovered church records revealed a little known fact about the parish.

NSU Alumnus Teams Up with Singer-Producer

The glitz, glam and spotlight of the entertainment industry have not dimmed the view of long-time friends and show business partners Tamar Braxton and NSU alumnus Phil Thornton ’03 regarding the importance of a good education.

NSU Alumni and the Biology of Love

A Lifelong Commitment To Their Alma Mater

Drs. Howard G. and Eloise Christine Davis Adams met on the campus of the Norfolk Division of Virginia State College in 1960, when she was a freshman, and he was a sophomore.

Langley FCU & Langley for Families Foundation

Support Norfolk State On Many Diverse Levels

Langley Federal Credit Union understands the global impact of obtaining a college degree. The financial institution, based in Newport News, Virginia, donates to several colleges in the region including Christopher Newport University, College of William & Mary, Hampton University, Norfolk State University, and Old Dominion University.

Legacy Gift Seeks to Extend University's Impact

Rosalind Battle Jennings, recipient of a master’s degree in Urban Education from Norfolk State University in 1985, is a woman who knows what she wants in life and beyond. Assist-ing with the care of a feisty mother, Jennings created a planned giving donation to Norfolk State because she sees the future of her alma mater and its students, and wanted to create a gift that would keep on giving.

NSU Partners With The Hibel Foundation

Planned Giving Initiative

What happens when the co-founder of the leading academic job board, HigherEdJobs, ignites his passion for planned giving? The answer: You form a foundation and a Planned Giving Initiative (PGI) within that foundation that encourages education and collaboration in the planned giving field.

Torilus Ward and NSU Facilities

The Norfolk State University campus is picturesque and scenic thanks to Torilus ‘Tory’ Ward and staff of Facilities Management Services. Ward may have missed his calling. He could easily make a living as a motivational and/or inspirational speaker. Although he is a gifted landscaper, using his talents in the University’s Facilities Management Services division, his enthusiasm for people and his craft is infectious.