The Richmond Peace Education Center has a profile on Professor John Moeser as 2015 PeaceMaker of the Year, in advance of their annual dinner and auction.

Moeser held his ground at VCU but soon upset the University’s leadership when the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, which he helped organize, publicly opposed VCU’s plans to extend the campus into Oregon Hill.
“Word got back that the President, in a conversation with the Provost, questioned whether the university really needed an Urban Studies Department. I thought it was our finest hour.”