Honor Code and Creed

Susan S. Goode Fine and Performing Arts Center (2019)

This 23,200-square-foot facility features the impressive glass-enclosed Eleanor and Henry Watts Grand Lobby and Gallery and the 325-seat Joan and Macon Brock Theatre. Support spaces ring the stage, including a scene shop, dressing rooms, green room, costume, prop, and equipment storage. A plaza for outdoor programming overlooks the Susan Beverly Grand Terrace and Pond. The center serves as a unique venue for student productions, visiting artists and speakers, community performances, conferences, and awards ceremonies.

Coastal 61 at Oxford Village (2020)

This eight-building, 248 luxury-apartment community opened in 2020 on the north side of Wesleyan Drive. A publicprivate partnership between Virginia Wesleyan and The Franklin Johnston Group, the community will be open to the public and also provide living space for upper-level and graduate students, faculty, and staff.

Malbon Center for Technology (2020)

Located in Pruden Hall, the Malbon Center is named for Trustee John Malbon to honor his strategic leadership of technology initiatives at Virginia Wesleyan. The Malbon Center is home to campus Information Technology Services.

TowneBank Arena in the Jane P. Batten Student Center (2020)

This nearly 2,000 seat arena is the home of Marlin volleyball and basketball, and also hosts a wide range of other events for both the campus community and coastal Virginia. Named for sponsor TowneBank, renovations added new seating and expanded arena capacity, provided access to the hospitality suite, and refurbished the Donald M. Forsyth Court.

The Honor Code

Virginia Wesleyan University is committed to values of citizenship and social responsibility fundamental to a community of scholars. People who join this academic community agree to maintain academic honesty. The purpose of the Virginia Wesleyan Honor Code is to foster an environment of learning based upon trustworthiness and willingness to assume personal responsibility for honorable behavior. Acts of academic dishonesty, which include cheating, plagiarism, lying, theft, and falsifying data, are violations of the Honor Code. Once students become members of the University community and are presumed to understand the nature of such violations, they are responsible for avoiding them and for the consequences if they do not. The Honor Code, available on the University’s website, offers guidelines for academic conduct and disciplinary procedures for infractions of the code.

The Virginia Wesleyan Creed

● We accept and support the Virginia Wesleyan Honor Code;

A commitment to trustworthiness and a willingness to assume personal responsibility for honorable behavior.

● We seek experiences that enhance personal academic excellence and an integrated liberal arts perspective;

A commitment to sustained achievement in the classroom.

● We abide by and uphold the Virginia Wesleyan Community Standards;

A commitment to good campus citizenship in all undertakings.

● We value and respect diversity in all facets of our multicultural society;

A commitment to recognize and to celebrate the importance of cultural differences within our campus community and to oppose all forms of discrimination.

● We aspire to be a supportive community that respects the value of faith and religious freedom;

A commitment to cultivate spiritual sensitivity and to foster personal commitment that leads to ethical conduct.

● We respect the personal belongings of others and the property of the University;

A commitment to oppose all forms of vandalism or theft of personal and University property.