A recent proposal to raise graduate school tuition for doctoral candidates by nearly $4,000 for the next academic year is part of an effort to ultimately lower tuition costs, according to Associate Dean for Graduate Academic Programs Philip Zelikow. Monday Feb.
Members of the University community remain conflicted on next week’s Restore the Ideal vote, when students will decide whether to implement two hotly contested reforms into the Honor Committee’s constitution and bylaws.
After more than 10 University students went to the Emergency Room last week with alcohol-related problems, the Inter-Fraternity and Inter-Sorority councils cracked down on drinking during IFC Recruitment.
The Honor Committee voted Monday afternoon to support the Restore the Ideal Act. The act includes an informed-retraction option, which would allow students to admit honor offenses after a report has been filed against them and return to the University following a yearlong suspension.
University faculty and community members met in a public forum in the Newcomb Ballroom Monday to address faculty recruitment, retention and development.
Lawn residents have taken down holiday trees outside their rooms in response to requests for their removal by the University’s office of Housing & Residence Life.
The U.S. Supreme Court last week decided Liberty University can challenge the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s provisions mandating employers provide health insurance for workers and requiring health plans to offer abortion coverage without copay.
Charlottesville City Council is deadlocked in deciding how to implement a Human Rights Commission in Charlottesville, with the December deadline for a proposed gameplan quickly approaching.
Sitting two rows behind third-year College students Alexander Stamey and Kevin Nguyen, their classmate could see them shuffling papers and whispering back and forth during an exam.
In a email sent to students Wednesday afternoon, Patricia Lampkin, vice president and chief student affairs officer, said the absence of a University-wide notification about the attempted abduction of a University student by a Runk Dining Hall employee last week was consistent with University policy.
