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The Academical Village is the centerpiece of the University landscape and contains some of the first buildings to be constructed on Grounds. The historic, colonial-style architecture in central Grounds is composed of the Lawn, Rotunda, Range, Gardens, Pavilions and more.
In 2014, the University renewed its contract with Aramark — a for-profit company that supplies food and provides other services in various fields, including education, healthcare and government — for an additional 20 years, set to end in 2034. This renewal came after the company had already partnered with U.Va. Dine for over 20 years prior.
By the time the Virginia General Assembly adjourned Feb. 22, over 900 bills had been approved and sent to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s desk to be signed. With a March 24 deadline, the Governor had approximately one month to take action on each of these bills. Ultimately, Youngkin signed 599 bills, amended 159 and vetoed the remaining 157. Of these bills, several — both approved and vetoed — may impact college students throughout the state, including at the University. Enacted legislation will go into effect July 1.
After serving approximately two years as interim Senior Associate Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students, Cedric Bernard Rucker stepped down from the role this month. Rucker said that some of his goals coming into the role were to facilitate community and reinforce student self-governance at the University.
When the first University class was taught 200 years ago, women were not allowed to enroll. The University first allowed summer instruction for women in 1880, but did not admit women until 1970, and was not fully coeducational until 1972. Since then, there have been many notable female alumni, including Dawn Staley, head coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of South Carolina, Meredith Kopit Levien, chief executive officer and president of the New York Times, Tina Fey, film and television actress, writer and producer and Katie Couric, broadcast journalist for CBS and NBC News.
The Committee on the College at Wise met Friday at the Board of Visitors meeting to discuss updates to student housing, enrollment and retention rates and academic and student life.
Students who have walked along or driven by the intersection of Emmet Street South and Stadium Road this semester may have noticed a new construction site in this area. The site will eventually house the Verve, a complex which will provide additional off-Grounds housing for students. However, according to some students, the location of this construction — behind Kerchof Hall — has hindered students’ walks to Clark Hall, New Cabell Hall and other locations on Central Grounds.
Starting this month, U.Va. Dine is now requiring that students use reusable to-go containers at all three dining halls if they wish to take food out. At Gaston Food Hub, reusable to-go containers are offered but not required. U.Va. Dine has partnered with ReusePass, a web-based sustainability program that lets diners check out and return reusable to-go containers, to launch this initiative. The program will aim to reduce waste at dining locations and deliver on the goals of the 2030 U.Va. Sustainability Plan.
U.Va. Dine is debuting changes that will add flexibility to students’ dining experience, according to an email sent to students just before the beginning of the semester. Spring semester additions to the dining experience on Grounds mainly impacted dining options in the Pavilion XI at Newcomb Hall, including a new Chick-fil-A meal exchange exclusively Fridays, as well as cementing Subway and Starbucks meal exchanges that were first introduced last semester.
President-elect Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated Monday, marking only the second time in United States history where a president will serve two non-consecutive terms — the first being Grover Cleveland as the 22nd and 24th president. Prior to the inauguration, Trump has announced numerous policies that he will aim to implement or retract, taking advantage of the fact that both the Senate and the House of Representatives are under Republican control for at least the next two years.
Finals — which occurred between Monday Dec. 9 and Tuesday Dec. 17 — can be a challenging time for students. To alleviate some of the stress that accompanies this period, organizations such as the Honor Committee, the Writing Center and Class Councils offered a variety of handouts before finals concluded, including free snacks, energy drinks and coffee. Students who used these resources said they appreciated this support as they finished classes and completed their exams.
The Full Board of Visitors met Friday to conclude the final meeting of the calendar year. The Board approved all 16 resolutions from committee meetings that had occurred prior to the convening of the Full Board, including increases in the tuition for most graduate schools, increases in student housing and increases in meal plan rates. Additionally, University President Jim Ryan announced a $20 million commitment from Board member John L. Nau III.
With the presidential election arriving in less than 30 days, voter registration efforts have been ramping up among both Contracted Independent Organizations on Grounds and organizations off Grounds. University students in an election year are faced with many choices prior to casting their ballot, including where and how to register as well as whether to vote in-person or absentee. In response, both partisan and nonpartisan groups are engaging with students and Charlottesville residents to register them to vote prior to the Oct. 15 deadline in Virginia.
The housing search for the 2025-26 school year has kicked off, with many students already in the midst of signing leases for next year. After just two months of attending the University, first years are under time constraints to choose between a plethora of both on-Grounds and off-Grounds housing options, while considering factors like potential roommates, cost and availability.
As campaigns ramp up in a year that promises a change in national leadership, one class at the University titled PLAP 3500, “Election 2024,” will use political science principles to make sense of the historic election. Meanwhile, professors in other departments, from media studies to history, are emphasizing this year’s election as a way to discuss American democracy more broadly.
Charlottesville City Council discussed a measure that would implement ranked choice voting for the June 25, 2025 Council primary at its Aug. 19 meeting. Charlottesville community members who came to speak at the meeting voiced their support for the measure, with many urging the Council to adopt the ordinance at its next scheduled meeting Sept. 3.
The School of Architecture will again take part in the Envision Resilience Challenge — a project that allows student design teams from several universities to engage with communities vulnerable to the effects of climate change and work to mitigate the issues they face — in the upcoming fall semester. The University is returning for its second year in the Challenge alongside seven other universities, most of which are also located in the eastern U.S.
During their time at the University, the Class of 2024 navigated several challenges, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the Nov. 13, 2022 shooting. Their class was the first to begin their time at the University amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, navigating a delayed move into University housing as well as a year with both virtual and in-person classes. Amidst these tumultuous events, students within the class rose to positions of leadership. As they created clubs and represented students through work in traditional student self-governance organizations, this graduating class demonstrated its resilience over the past four years.
Fossil Fuel DivestUVA hosted a rally titled “Reclaim Earth Day” Monday, calling for the University to completely withdraw their investments from the fossil fuel industry. The rally began on the North side of the Rotunda from which around thirty people, including University students as well as Charlottesville community members, marched to the Corner next to the University heating plant off West Main Street. Next to the heating plant, two climate activists — Joshua Vana and Deborah Kushner — gave speeches on their work with environmental justice in Virginia, including their advocacy for the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast pipeline.
Brown College hosted a celebration at Jefferson Hall Monday for the launch of the “Sister Revolutions'' podcast, a four episode narrative on the American and French revolutions in Charlottesville and one of its sister cities, Besançon, France. Attendees at the panel event included representatives from Besançon, University students, University faculty, the Charlottesville Sister City Commission and the podcast’s production team.