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Jonathan Mususa

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Closing of Ujima House at Virginia Tech leaves residents taking what they’ve learned from the experience

by Jonathan Mususa November 21, 2025

The living-learning community, which was created in 2018, is a residence hall focused around Africana studies and the African American experience. It’s one of four LLCs that will be dissolved at the end of the school year.

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