Virginia Senate passes mental health reforms
The Virginia Senate unanimously passed SB 260 Monday — a bill which aims to reform the state’s mental health system.
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The Virginia Senate unanimously passed SB 260 Monday — a bill which aims to reform the state’s mental health system.
The University Medical Center announced last week that Medical School Prof. Chris A. Ghaemmaghami will serve as its interim chief medical officer.
The Batten School has begun a multi-year, international search for new faculty members in the fields of economics and policy analysis, two of the school’s core subjects.
A City of Charlottesville and Charlottesville School District joint commission presented a report Tuesday about the status of public education funding in Charlottesville and potential ways to combat funding gaps.
Charlottesville City Council approved a series of legislative requests Monday asking the Virginia General Assembly to give Council the authority to impose regulations on firearms, smoking and even car idling.
The University is currently testing a new activity-based budgeting model intended to change the way schools and departments receive funding. The new system aims to make funding more responsive to the specific costs and revenues associated with particular activities — such as starting a new course offering.
Charlottesville resident Tsaye Lemar Simpson has been arrested as a suspect in connection with the murder of University dining hall employee Jarvis Brown, the Charlottesville Police Department announced Wednesday.
Members of the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority are examining the possibility of restructuring the city’s public housing options, a move which is drawing some criticism from groups saying the change would harm residents of public housing projects.
The student organization Graduate Students for a Better U.Va. is calling for increased student advocacy and improved communication with the administration about issues affecting the life of University graduate students.
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.
Politics Prof. Larry Sabato revealed a controversial study Tuesday about the life of President John F. Kennedy, with new insights into his 1963 assassination. Sabato held a press conference at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. to present his findings and to promote his new book, “The Kennedy Half Century.”
University graduates’ degrees have a lower return on investments than those of graduates from Washington & Lee University, Virginia Tech and the College of William & Mary, according to a recently released study by Affordable Colleges Online.
The University has recently faced growing demand for the creation of an African Studies major within the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. The major would be distinct from the existing AAS interdisciplinary major and the African Studies minor.
The Board of Visitors approved a B.S. in Education in Youth and Social Innovation Thursday, a new prospective major in the Education School.
The Virginia Attorney General’s office submitted a brief to the Virginia Court of Appeals this week giving the state’s opinion on the appeal effort of University student George Huguely. The former Virginia lacrosse player was found guilty in February 2012 of grand larceny and the second degree murder of his on-again, off-again girlfriend Univeristy student Yeardley Love.
Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine sent a joint letter to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel in support of the proposed relocation of the U.S. Africa Command from Germany to Hampton Roads earlier this week. The letter followed a Government Accountability Office report released Monday which argued against the Department of Defense’s decision in January to leave the U.S. AFRICOM headquarters in Germany.
The Honor Committee published case summaries Tuesday outlining the instances in which students took advantage of the Honor Committee’s new informed retraction policy since it passed in a referendum in March.
Following the April arrest of a University student attempting to buy sparkling water at a local grocery store, a Charlottesville-based advocacy group, the Rutherford Institute, is encouraging a series of large changes to the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
Forty percent of May 2012 graduates from the College of Arts & Sciences had acquired full-time employment or were self-employed after Final Exercises this past May, according to a recently unveiled report that profiled graduates’ post-college paths.
In the early afternoon on Thursday, April 25, University Alerts sent out an alert saying to avoid Carruthers Hall, which was the location of a chemical spill. The alert was lifted later in the afternoon. McGregor McCance, Interim Director of Media Relations for the Office of University Communications at the University, described what happened at Carruthers.