• December 8, 2022

“Bless Your Heart,” a digital video production by students in Hollins University’s Master of Fine Arts program in screenwriting and film studies, has been cited by two renowned film festivals: Top Shorts and the New York International Film Awards.

• November 16, 2022

Hollins is number eight on PraxisExam.org’s list of the Best Praxis Elementary Education Pass Rates in Virginia. The rankings recognize the commonwealth’s public and private colleges and universities with the highest first-time pass rates for the Praxis Elementary Education Multiple Subjects Test, which quantifies a teacher’s subjective knowledge before a teaching license is obtained.

• September 6, 2022

Hollins has joined with Roanoke City Public Schools, North Cross School, and Lord Botetourt High School to address the critical shortage of teachers and its profound impact in the Roanoke region.

• July 20, 2022

Hollins University’s graduate programs in children’s literature and children’s book illustration are applauding what director Lisa Fraustino called “a true bounty of books published this year by our faculty and program graduates.”

• July 14, 2022

Sean McCord, who is pursuing his M.F.A. in the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University, and Sarah Cosgrove-Gaumond, who completed her graduate degree in playwriting at Hollins this year, have been honored with invitations this summer to the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive. They will engage in rigorous writing workshops and discussions of the art, craft, and business of playwriting.

• July 1, 2022

Oscar winner Robert Duvall, whose film and television credits include such classics as “The Godfather,” “Apocalypse Now,” and “Lonesome Dove,” recently shared his insights on acting, directing, and screenwriting during a conversation with students from Hollins University’s graduate programs in screenwriting and film studies.

• January 27, 2022

Works by three student playwrights from the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University have been chosen for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) Region IV Festival, continuing Hollins’ “unbroken string of successes with KCACTF Region IV.”

• November 12, 2021

Beginning in the summer of 2022, students in Hollins’ M.F.A. program in dance will travel to Plovdiv, Bulgaria, for three weeks of international study and immersion. Plovdiv is considered by many to be Bulgaria’s cultural hub and in 2019 was named a European Capital of Culture.

• August 23, 2021

Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions is partnering with fellow production company Temple Hill to develop the anthology program “Blackout” for Netflix, based on the story collection by Dhonielle Clayton M.A. ’09 and five other bestselling African American young adult authors.

• August 19, 2021

Erin Edmonds successfully made the transition from broadcast journalist to high school English teacher, thanks in part to Hollins’ Master of Arts in Teaching and Learning program.