Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, March 11, 1995 TAG: 9503130031
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Medium
The newspaper said Wilder will use the university as a research center for his writing and will teach part time.
VCU spokeswoman Melissa Burnside would say only, ``We are talking with him.''
Any appointment will have to go before the board of visitors, she said.
Wilder, reached at home Thursday night, declined to comment.
Unnamed sources told the newspaper that Wilder would be paid out of private funds, not public money.
He would continue to be host of the syndicated morning radio talk show that bears his name on WRVA.
Dr. Robert D. Holsworth, a VCU political scientist, is director of the Center for Public Policy, which was formed July 1. The center is based on the academic campus and brings together public policy expertise from both the academic and the Medical College of Virginia campuses, he said.
Among its components is the Survey Research Laboratory, which does polling and other research; the Virginia Center for Urban Development; and the Transportation Safety Training Center.
Holsworth said VCU is converting its doctorate program in public administration to a doctorate in public policy.
Wilder, a Democrat, was governor from 1990 to 1994 and lieutenant governor for four years before that.
He ran for the U.S. Senate last year as an independent but dropped out of the race in mid-September.
He is trained as a lawyer, but he did not return to practice after leaving the governorship.
by CNB