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Trends toward non-tenure-track faculty at the University, across the nation

Employment of adjunct professors is on the rise at universities across the nation, and concern about the effect of this new hiring model on the university is on the rise as well. Bethany Nowviskie Director of Digital Research and Scholarship and Chair of the General Faculty Council, acknowledged the trend both at the Universty and across the naiton.


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Deeds' condition updated to 'good'

Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds’ condition was upgraded to “good” Wednesday afternoon after he suffered multiple stab wounds inflicted by his son in his Bath County home Tuesday morning. First responders pronounced Deeds’ son Gus, 24, dead at the scene.


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UCLA student video sparks racial debate

A YouTube video created by students at the University of California, Los Angeles, has garnered massive online attention and is sparking debate across the nation about race at institutions of higher education. The Black Bruins, an African-American student organization at UCLA, posted the video last week to voice complaints regarding their university’s low minority enrollment. Junior and group leader Sy Stokes narrates the video with a spoken word poem addressing the school’s statistical gap in minority enrollment, saying only 3.3 percent of the school’s male student body is African-American.


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The University’s Associate Vice Provost for Enrollment and Undergraduate Admission, Greg Roberts, provides listeners with an insight into how the University conducts admissions and the legal subtleties regarding the possible end to the consideration of legacy status.



https://open.spotify.com/episode/02ZWcF1RlqBj7CXLfA49xt