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(03/29/21 1:34am)
The University Office of Housing and Residence Life has received 19 percent fewer applications for on-Grounds housing for the 2021-2022 academic year than it did at this point last year. However, the percentage of current on-Grounds residents who plan to return is higher than it was pre-pandemic. During the past few weeks, those who applied to live in on-Grounds housing for the next academic year have been in the process of selecting rooms.
(03/19/21 5:25am)
Employees of the University’s Facilities Management Division were directed to take down a paper sign from the door of a fourth-year Lawn resident last week, according to a letter from Housing and Residence Life which the student posted on Twitter March 12. The tweet also included a photo of the sign alongside the letter and a caption saying “f—k uva.”
(03/10/21 4:22pm)
Third-year College students Mj Smith and Jayla Hart accepted offers to serve as resident staff co-chairs for the 2021-22 academic year on Feb 23. The positions — which they will hold until May 2022 — include responsibilities such as leading Housing and Residence Life senior staff training meetings, reviewing applications for and managing a team of 240 staffers and providing recommendations for changes to Housing and Residence Life’s mission and policies. HRL provides on-Grounds housing for approximately 7,000 students, ranging from first-years living in dorms to upperclassmen in apartment-style housing.
(01/25/21 1:38am)
After being converted into quarantine housing for the fall semester, students will be able to apply to the International Residential College for the 2021-22 academic year. For the spring semester, however, the IRC will continue to serve as a possible quarantine location.
(12/10/20 7:08pm)
Despite increased COVID-19 restrictions and strict quarantine policies, first-year students remain undeniably optimistic about their first semester at the University. The Class of 2024 has adapted to these challenges in just three months and become even closer in the process.
(09/10/20 6:02pm)
The University administration’s decision to bring thousands of students back to on-Grounds housing created an entirely new group of frontline workers during the pandemic — resident advisors. Housing and Residence Life has a history of treating RAs haphazardly. Its indifference towards this group of student workers — especially during a time when COVID-19 is likely to cause outbreaks in dorms throughout Grounds — demonstrates a systemic flaw within Housing and Residence Life and how it treats its student employees.
(09/10/20 6:14pm)
University President Jim Ryan sat down for a 20-minute Zoom interview with The Cavalier Daily Wednesday afternoon to discuss the return of students to Grounds and the start of in-person learning.
(09/07/20 5:23pm)
Resident advisors at the University anonymously published a list of demands via Twitter Aug. 28, calling upon Housing and Residence Life to treat resident staffers as “frontline workers” and provide them with the “necessary resources to fulfill our role and protect ourselves, our residents and the community.”
(08/29/20 4:00am)
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(09/02/20 5:17pm)
University Student Council passed resolutions in support of an extension of the spring semester’s credit/no credit grading policy and “U.Va. RA’s” and their demands in a Tuesday night general body meeting.
(08/30/20 12:14am)
Residents of the International Residential College, Johnson, Malone and Weedon Houses and Shea House were given just 24 hours to choose a housing reassignment or remain off-Grounds after learning on Friday at 8:00 p.m. that their dormitories were being converted into quarantine and isolation areas.
(09/03/20 9:20pm)
As the University welcomes back students, Resident Advisors are tasked with ensuring that students adhere to University guidelines in order to protect the community from the spread of COVID-19. However, with the University committing to an in-person semester, some RAs feel uncomfortable with current policies and the lack of agency given to them.
(01/16/20 8:55pm)
U.Va.’s Housing and Residence Life is often regarded as an elite organization with “well over 400 [resident advisor] applications” for “upwards of 240 students” to be selected. As someone who has been a resident advisor the past five semesters, I intimately understand the system. I also understand where the system fails and how it failed me when I was removed from the RA position by HRL this past semester.
(01/15/20 10:16pm)
HRL pressured me to live in expensive alternative housing options and gave me less than a week to move out, making me effectively homeless.
(09/26/19 9:28pm)
With just a few weeks of classes under their belts, students around Grounds have begun organizing groups of roommates, going on apartment tours and applying for and renewing leases. Low-income students at the University, who are located in a city with a notable lack of affordable housing, weigh this decision carefully.
(09/25/19 11:58pm)
Thomas Jefferson’s ideal for the academical village is to extend learning beyond the classroom and into the home, particularly illustrated in a unique housing option for students — residential colleges, which are meant to be combined spaces for living and learning for both peers and faculty members. The University has three residential colleges — Hereford, Brown and the International Residential College — each with their own theme and central focus.
(09/12/19 3:30am)
Bond House, the new installment of the Brandon Ave. residential community for upperclassmen, opened Aug. 25 for student move-in, despite being unfinished. Furniture was placed Sept. 4, but residents have reported to facilities management services following encounters with mice and centipedes and trouble with kitchen appliances.
(09/05/19 10:49pm)
In February, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam enacted legislation banning those under age 21 from buying tobacco and nicotine products in the state of Virginia. The law — intended to address what U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams deemed the youth vaping epidemic — went into effect July 1.
(09/05/19 1:55am)
Students moved into Bond House for the first time Aug. 25 before classes resumed at the University, but some students told The Cavalier Daily that the on-Grounds housing remained partially unfinished until Sept. 4.
(06/29/19 2:56pm)
The construction of Bond House apartments on Brandon Avenue has been behind schedule due to winter weather constraints, but the University anticipates the building will be completed in time for students to move in this August.
