Two board of visitors committees to hold planning retreat

The Academic Affairs and Student Affairs and Athletics committees of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors will meet together in open session on Monday, Jan. 22 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Northern Virginia Center, Room 206, 7054 Haycock Road, Falls Church, Va.

Participation in the meeting is also possible from the Blacksburg campus via a video-conferencing feed. Blacksburg-based participants will meet in Room1050, Torgersen Hall.

Members of the two committees will hold a planning retreat and discuss potential agenda items of common interest.

Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college, Virginia Tech is the most comprehensive university in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Today, Virginia Tech’s eight colleges are dedicated to putting knowledge to work through teaching, research, and engagement activities and to fulfilling its vision to be among the top research universities in the nation. At its 2,600-acre main campus located in Blacksburg and other campus centers in Northern Virginia, Southwest Virginia, Hampton Roads, Richmond, and Roanoke, Virginia Tech enrolls more than 27,000 undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries in 180 academic degree programs.