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(11/28/18 5:07am)
The 18th annual Lighting of the Lawn is set to take place Dec. 6 on the Lawn. The LOTL committee, made up of all the Class Councils, has made several adjustments to the event, including a shortened duration, diversified speakers and a presentation of community goals related to the University’s bicentennial.
(11/15/18 5:36am)
University President Jim Ryan’s promise to guarantee financial aid for low- and medium-income students may not be a major departure from current financial aid practices.
(10/18/18 5:30am)
Students identifying as Hispanic or Latinx compose 6 percent of the University student body, while less than 2 percent of the University’s faculty identify in the same way. In the College, there are a total of 24 teaching or research faculty members identifying as Hispanic or Latinx — nine of whom teach in the language department. At the University as a whole, there are a total of 80 teaching and research faculty members identifying as Hispanic or Latinx.
(10/22/18 3:12am)
A public petition demanding the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors to remove the “Johnny Reb” statue in front of the Albemarle County Courthouse has been signed by over 400 people.
(10/03/18 12:43am)
Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor of presidential studies at the Miller Center, talked about her new podcast, “A12,” to dozens of students, faculty and community members at an event in Nau Hall Monday evening.
(09/25/18 4:15am)
The Elson Student Health Center will host its fall Mental Wellness Screening Day Thursday in Newcomb Hall Room 360. The event — funded by Student Health — seeks to raise awareness of mental health and increase the accessibility of the University’s Counseling & Psychological Services for students.
(09/27/18 1:10am)
Two predominant voices in the debate over the future of Alderman Library are disagreeing on the number of books that will remain in its stacks after the renovation designs received approval by the Board of Visitors earlier this month.
(09/12/18 2:42am)
With only a month to go, the Alumni Association is preparing for Young Alumni Reunions to be held in the Sprint Pavilion for the first time. YAR is planned for Oct. 13 from 8 to 11 p.m.
(06/03/18 7:32pm)
A petition was formed, signed and circulated last week by University faculty, students and alumni to protest the reduction of up to almost 70 percent of the physical shelf space in Alderman Library during the library’s upcoming renovation. Renovation plans for Alderman, which include the shelving cuts, will be presented this coming week to the Board of Visitors for approval.
(05/06/18 12:54am)
Around 40 members of the Charlottesville community met in the lunchroom of Buford Middle School last Tuesday to deliver feedback to members of the City Planning Commission and other city staff personnel on the currently proposed draft of the Comprehensive Plan update.
(04/26/18 5:39am)
Last month, Thierry Dupuis, the interim chief of the Charlottesville Police Department, presented to Charlottesville City Council the CPD’s report detailing the records from a 2017 investigative detentions report. Using 2016 census statistics and the proportions found in the report, The Cavalier Daily found that people identifying as black or African American were affected at roughly a nine times higher rate than the white residents of Charlottesville by CPD’s stop and frisk policies.
(04/22/18 1:28am)
Second-year College student Natalie Romero has been named as the next student director of the Multicultural Student Center.
(04/11/18 4:06am)
Students, faculty and community members gathered in the Newcomb Ballroom Tuesday afternoon to hear author Beverly D. Tatum talk about racism, prejudice and activism in the context of her recently updated critically-acclaimed winning book, “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race”.
(03/26/18 5:04am)
Khizr Khan, the father of late Army Capt. Humayun Khan, spoke to a crowd of several hundred at Charlottesville High School Thursday as part of the Virginia Festival of the Book. In an event titled “Hope and Sacrifice,” Khan discussed his recently released books “An American Family” and “This is Our Constitution.” The first book describes Khan’s journey as an immigrant to the U.S. and his family’s story, while the second is aimed at educating middle schoolers about the the U.S. Constitution.
(03/15/18 12:22am)
Khizr Khan will deliver a talk March 22 as a part of the Virginia Festival of the Book — an event organized by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities aimed to bring writers and readers together. Khan will discuss his book “An American Family,” as well as his experiences as an immigrant, democracy and the rights of Americans.
(03/02/18 4:20am)
The Honor Audit Commission released a report this week evaluating the current state of the honor system at the University and identifying areas where the system can improve. Through student and faculty survey data and comparisons to systems at peer institutions, the report identified an overlap of students who feel the Honor Committee represents student opinions but does not effectively represents the diversity of the student body. The survey work also found a majority of student and faculty respondents support an Honor penalty which varies depending on the severity of the offense.
(02/23/18 3:03am)
The Virginia Fifth Congressional District Democratic Committee voted 16-7 in favor of continuing to hold a convention over a primary election as the nomination method for selecting a Democratic candidate for the 2018 Fifth district Congressional election at a meeting Monday at Wilson Hall. The convention will be held May 5 in Farmville, Va.