Virginia Union University (VUU) is a verifiably dark college situated in Richmond, Virginia, United States. It took its present name in 1899 upon the merger of two more seasoned schools, Richmond Theological Institute and Wayland Seminary, each established after the end of American Civil War by the American Baptist Home Mission Society. VUU's 84-section of land (34 ha) grounds is situated at 1500 North Lombardy Street in Richmond's North Side.
The University was established in 1865 to give the recently liberated freedmen an open door for training of the brain in a moral, religious environment. A generally dark college, Virginia Union University grasps the uniqueness and commitments of the African Diaspora, praising the estimation of social and scholarly assorted qualities. In any case, enlistment is interested in all understudies without respect to racial foundation.
The University gives far reaching undergrad aesthetic sciences projects and graduate training for Christian services. To this end, a managing guideline of the University's instructive system is a solid center upon good values and morals, and understudies are urged to take part in exercises that advance self-realization.
