Company Profile
Christopher Newport University
Company Overview
Christopher Newport University is a special place. We are friendly, caring and energetic, and strive for excellence in all that we do. We seek talented and committed faculty and staff who will embrace and share our core values. Our reach and reputation are growing, and CNU is well on its way to becoming one of America's pre-eminent public liberal arts and sciences universities.
At Christopher Newport University we care about minds and hearts. Our primary purpose is to form good citizens and leaders. We believe real success is a life well lived. We want our students to choose to live lives of meaning and consequence and purpose. We call that a life of significance.
Because we care about minds, our curriculum is based on the liberal arts and sciences. We emphasize the study of leadership and have developed a nationally respected President's Leadership Program. Our core curriculum is rigorous, cited by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni as the strongest core curriculum of any public college or university in America.
Because we care about hearts, our students perform thousands of hours of community service. We built a chapel and celebrate our speaking tradition and honor code.
We want our students to lead, serve, engage and set the world on fire. That’s what makes Christopher Newport special.
Company History
Founded in 1960 as Christopher Newport College, a two-year branch of the College of William & Mary, we are in Coastal Virginia, in the city of Newport News. Christopher Newport gained independence in 1977 and became a university in 1992.
Christopher Newport is named for the 17th-century mariner who helped establish the Jamestown colony, the first permanent English-speaking settlement in the New World, just a few miles from our campus.
Today, Christopher Newport is a four-year public university that enrolls 5,000 students in rigorous and rewarding academic programs in the liberal arts and sciences through the College of Arts and Humanities, the College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences, the College of Social Sciences, and the Luter School of Business. CNU offers great teaching and small class sizes with an emphasis on leadership, civic engagement and honor.
Benefits
Benefits are an integral part of employment, and can affect the quality of your life. Christopher Newport is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to our employees.
Christopher Newport employees and their dependents are eligible to participate in the commonwealth of Virginia state health benefits program. Available plans include:
COVA Care
COVA HDHP
COVA HealthAware
Optima Health HMO
Tricare Supplement for Military Retirees
Each health plan includes the following:
Medical coverage
Preventative dental coverage
Prescription drug coverage
Behavioral health coverage
Employee assistance programs
Employee assistance programs include:
Mental health
Alcohol or drug abuse assessment
Child or elder care
Grief counseling
Legal
Financial services
Most health plans include a buy-up for basic and complex restorative dental services. The COVA Care plan provides a buy-up for hearing and vision coverage. COVA HealthAware provides a buy-up for eyeglasses or contacts.
Group Life Insurance
Employees are entitled to group life insurance administered through the Virginia Retirement System and paid for by Christopher Newport University. The amount of your group life insurance equals your salary rounded up to the nearest thousand, multiplied by two.
For example, an employee currently making $25,400 would be entitled to $52,000 worth of group life insurance ($26,000 x 2 = $52,000). There are additional benefits associated with your basic group life policy.
Optional Group Life Insurance
As an employee, you may choose to purchase additional term life insurance for yourself and your family through payroll deduction. Employee coverage is equal to one, two, three or four times your salary depending on what you choose.
After one year of employment, employees enrolled in the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) who are not in the traditional sick leave program are automatically enrolled in the Virginia Sickness and Disability plan (VSDP), which includes short- and long-term disability and long-term care insurance. Employees may also purchase additional long-term care insurance.
An employee-paid, long-term disability plan is also available through The Hartford for employees not enrolled in the VRS or those in the traditional sick leave program under VRS. Employees may also purchase long-term care insurance.
Long-term care programs administered by the VRS provide help with everyday life tasks because of a prolonged health problem or following a major illness, injury or surgery.
Full-Time Classified Employees
Classified employees are automatically enrolled in the Virginia Retirement System (VRS). Employees hired after January 1, 2014 or later are covered under the VRS Hybrid plan, which is a defined benefit and defined contribution plan.