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(04/24/14 5:00am)
With a recent spike in highly-publicized collegiate tragedies attributed to mental illness, increased attention is being paid to deficiencies in psychological and counseling services universities offer. State incidents, including the campus massacre of 32 Virginia Tech students in 2007 and the number of suicides which occur every year, have increased pressure on Virginia schools to both meet and monitor the mental health of young adults.
(04/16/14 2:35am)
Dean Robert Bruner of the Darden School will join Architecture Dean Kim Tanzer, College Dean Meredith Woo and Batten School Dean Harry Harding as deans who are stepping down when their contracts expire. On Monday, University President Teresa Sullivan announced Bruner’s decision to step down as dean July 31, 2015 and return to his former faculty position after a year-long sabbatical.
(04/03/14 4:38am)
Sodexo is not being considered as the University’s next dining services provider, Patrick Hogan, the University’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, announced last Friday to a small group of students and faculty members who are a part of the Living Wage campaign.
(03/27/14 4:31am)
With higher education costs trending ever upward, students are applying for grants, scholarships and student loans at higher rates than ever before to help pay for college. To help students with the financial aid process, the University offers counseling and step-by-step instructions on how to navigate the process of obtaining a loan.
(03/19/14 12:19am)
Equality Virginia named Dean of Students Allen Groves a recipient of the sixth annual OUTstanding Virginians award last Wednesday, marking the group’s 25th anniversary.
(02/26/14 6:18am)
Queer & Allied Activism was re-established at the University Tuesday evening. More than 20 individuals — including two University staff members — convened in the University’s LGBTQ Center for the first meeting since the activist organization dissolved last spring.
(02/12/14 1:20am)
The Albemarle County School Board voted 6-1 last Tuesday to proceed with Superintendent Pam Moran’s $164.28 million funding request. Board members convened to determine if the budget request needed adjustments before sending the proposal to the Board of Supervisors for approval, ultimately deciding to pass Moran’s request in its initial form.
(01/29/14 12:34am)
A new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found quality of high school education may directly impact students’ academic success in college.
(11/19/13 3:56am)
The University administration is requiring the University Guide Service to rewrite its constitution, reform its disciplinary system and restructure its new member education program after four students were hospitalized for alcohol poisoning during a new member event in early October.
(11/05/13 4:19am)
The Virginia Supreme Court reversed a jury verdict last Friday in the wrongful-death suit filed by the parents of slain Virginia Tech students Erin Peterson and Julia Pryde, two of the 32 victims in the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.
(10/31/13 3:02am)
The father of Casey Schulman, a University student who died during a boating accident in Dominica while on a Semester at Sea trip last fall, has filed a lawsuit against the Institute for Shipboard Education/Semester at Sea, as well as the hotel and the travel agencies through which the chartered snorkeling expedition Schulman was on was organized, charging them with counts of negligence and strict liability.
(10/24/13 4:19am)
A top Chinese university fired an outspoken, pro-democracy professor last week, and outside academics are deeming the response from the University of Virginia insufficient. The University has sustained several student-exchanges with Peking University, who dismissed economist Xia Yeliang last Friday for purported academic reasons.
(10/10/13 4:35am)
The Women’s Center has partnered with the Avon Foundation to launch a social media campaign to engage University students in the fight against gender violence. The competition challenges students to create a 30-second video public service announcement and develop a Facebook promotion that informs viewers and works to prevent gender violence around Grounds.
(10/03/13 3:34am)
Recent data from the Virginia Public Access Project shows 15 of the 17 current Board of Visitors members contributed to the campaigns of the governors who nominated them, reflecting a statewide trend of political contributors being placed on public university governing bodies.
(09/30/13 11:41pm)
Fifteen of the 17 current Board of Visitors members contributed to the campaigns of the governors who nominated them, reflecting a statewide trend of political contributors being placed on public university governing bodies, according to data from the Virginia Public Access Project.