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Within circles around the shields is the name of the university and the date of its founding, "Old Dominion Unversity - 1930." The central portion contains a modified and simplified version of the Stuart arms, royal arms of the Stuart rulers at the time Virginia became known as the Old Dominion.

The shields of the four kingdoms represent England, Scotland, Ireland, and France, which England still claimed. Over the Stuart arms, to indicate the university's origin, has been placed the shield of the arms of The College of William and Mary, granted by the Heralds' College of 1694.