The colleges whose pennants are up - Old Dominion University and others that seem in the realm of the possible - have far lower graduation rates.
Mr. Newsom attended the Norfolk Division of the College of a William & Mary, a junior college that became Old Dominion University.
He was president of Capitol College in Columbus which was renamed Dominion University when it relocated to Westerville Ohio.
The college was later renamed the Capitol College of Columbus and later renamed Dominion University when the university was relocated from Columbus to Westerville, Ohio.
'Old Dominion University' on the right shoulder, and the diagonal ODU with crown logo on the left shoulder.
In addition, he taught as an adjunct instructor at Regent University (1989-1991) in Virginia Beach, Virginia and Old Dominion University (2001-2006) in Norfolk, Virginia.
Ranked first as of May 2 was St. Mary's College in Maryland; second, Tufts University; and third, Old Dominion University.
Upon retiring from politics, he returned to what was by then Old Dominion University, where he currently holds the chair of Kaufman Lecturer in Public Affairs.
VCU's main rival is Old Dominion University.
It opened in 1936 with a football game between the University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary's Norfolk Division (which is now Old Dominion University).