Roanoke was listed in the 2025 edition of the Princeton Review’s “The Best 390 Colleges,” receiving special recognition for its athletic facilities, town/gown relations, psychology program and business/finance program. 

The sculpture, “Authors and Architects” by Sandy Williams IV, was selected in partnership with Creative Time and will be situated on campus to memorialize enslaved people connected to Roanoke College history.  

John Turbyfill ’53 and Jack Shannon ’52, part of a long legacy of Roanoke College graduates who became railroad executives, provided transformative leadership for both Norfolk Southern Corp. and their alma mater.

Roanoke College alumnus Robert Anderson Jr. ’42 bravely skippered a vessel that navigated a minefield to save fellow servicemen on D-Day — all with a very famous passenger on board.  

Nicole Terrill '95, former co-chair of the Parent Leadership Council, is now a voting member of the board, while Michael and Anne Cherry are the new Parent Leadership Council co-chairs. 

Roanoke College is prepared to ease the transfer path for students from Wells College in Aurora, New York, which announced this week that it will close after 156 years.

The grant from the state Board of Education, which is believed to be the largest state grant ever received by Roanoke College, will allow the school to move forward with plans for a dual-enrollment lab school for local high school students. 

In the first quarter of the year, Roanoke College has showcased new academic programs and poll showings.

The project, funded by a grant from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, will develop research, resources and workshops to help faculty ethically integrate artificial intelligence into classrooms.

Voting is open now through March 8 for the award, which would recognize a Roanoke College/Department of Homeland Security project that is improving flood detection and warnings on campus.