Pre-2014

• Adobe perpetual licenses were purchased by faculty, staff, and students.

2014

• VCU faculty, staff, and students purchased Adobe perpetual licenses for specific applications to be used on a single device.

2015

• VCU Schools and departments began establishing Adobe Value Incentive Plan (VIP) agreements.

2016
The School of the Arts moved from a VIP agreement to a three-year Enterprise Term License Agreement (ETLA)

2017
Sixty-four VIP licenses were placed under the VIP Linked Membership Agreement (level 4 discount pricing).

February 2019

• The Associate Director of Learning Media in VCU Online for Faculty, (former) Assistant Director of VCU CTLE, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the VCU Schools of Arts (SOA), and the Director of VCU Academic Technologies attended an Adobe Creative Campus collaboration event to learn about digital literacy in higher education.

May 2019

• VCU Communication Arts graduate, Mary Metzger won the Adobe Top Talent award for her innovative project depicting the impact of chronic illness.

June 2019

• VCU Technology Services partnered with the School of the Arts (SOA) to convert seventy-two department agreements to a single ETLA for the entire university.

A new three-year Adobe ETLA was signed for the entire university, making Adobe apps available at significantly discounted rates.

• Dedicated Adobe representative assigned to VCU to collaboratively develop strategic plans that maximize the partnership between VCU and Adobe.
• An extensive marketing campaign, including a new website, was launched to inform students about the discounted license opportunity and to raise awareness within the VCU community of the benefits to students developing Adobe skills.

September 2019

VCU was designated an Adobe Creative Campus, the first school in Virginia to achieve this recognition.

March - May 2020

• Upon remote learning being implemented due to the pandemic, VCU Libraries, School of the Arts, Technology Services, and other departments contributed to a limited two-month license at no cost to our students. In addition, Adobe worked closely with VCU departments to identify creative ways to engage their students and provided a collection of online learning resources

June 2020

• Seven VCU faculty and academic leaders participated in the Adobe Creative Campus Faculty Development Institute (FDI), which included a dynamic program of hands-on development workshops, sharing of ideas and strategies for fostering student engagement experiences that develop digital literacies to connect the curriculum with career and community
• As the result of the FDI and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Center for Sports Leadership kicked off an "Our Stories" campaign to allow program students and alumni an opportunity to tell their own stories using Adobe Spark.

July 2020

• Andrew Ilnicki from VCU School of the Arts was one of fifteen global educators invited to participate in the Adobe Master Teachers project.

September 2020

The first Adobe Creative Jam was hosted by VCU, organized by the da Vinci Center, Schools of Business, Medicine, and the Brand Center, and other; students from forty-none majors participated. The event was planned and coordinated by several VCU staff and students; a faculty member from VCU was the event speaker and some VCU students were part of the judges panel.

October 2020

• Many VCU departments and programs began hosting training sessions, workshops, and seminars.
• Two VCU students produced a special video for the 2020 eduMAX opening event on behalf of Adobe. A VCU student, along with twenty-five other drummers from different Adobe Creative Campuses, was selected to play a custom cadence for the video.

November 2020

• VCU faculty, along with Film and Video students, were invited to the exclusive "Hollywood Post-production Workflows with Adobe and Team Fincher" event.

December 2020

• Greg Buron, VCU Director of Communications and Engagement for the Center of Sports Leadership (CSL), spoke at the Faculty Development Institute (FDI) reunion about the CSL campaign he conducted as the result of what he learning during the June FDI event.

Spring 2021

• The VCU da Vinci Center was awarded a Faculty Development gift to support a new program to expand the design-thinking curriculum.

Fall 2021

• VCU students were identified as VCU Adobe Ambassadors to promote the use and benefits of Adobe apps from the student perspective.

September 2021

• Adobe hosted and facilitated Virginia's Higher Education Adobe Roundtable, where leaders from Virginia schools discussed digital literacy, student success, creativity, and high-impact teaching across the curriculum. In addition, VCU shared feedback on becoming a Creative Campus and the value of having Adobe Creative Cloud available to faculty, staff, and students.

October 2021

• Adobe apps were used for product innovation and problem solving at the VCU Healthhacks event.

January 2022

• Substance 3D Collection added to the VCU Create Cloud offering.

April 2022

• Released a new, updated and redesigned VCU Adobe website for easier navigation and access to licensing information, applications, and resources.

June 2022

• Adobe apps were used for product innovation and problem solving at the VCU Healthhacks event.

June 2022

VCU ETLA expanded to include full access to Adobe's Creative Cloud apps for all students enrolled at VCU.