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Recent changes to federal student loan programs enacted through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and set to be implemented Wednesday could significantly affect students across the University’s School of Nursing, School of Education and Human Development and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, among other graduate programs.
From July 1 onward, the higher education bubble for graduate students will only worsen thanks to federal student loan policies. As a result of last year’s federal budget bill, the Grad PLUS student loan program is discontinued for new borrowers. This program, which has been available to eligible graduate and professional students since 2006, provides a way to borrow up to a graduate program’s total cost of attendance, as opposed to being subject to lifetime caps applicable to other federal loans. Now, graduate students will only be able to borrow up to $20,500 a year with a lifetime limit of $100,000 — “professional” students in schools of law, medicine and similar programs can borrow up to $50,000 a year with a lifetime cap of $200,000. With the cost of attendance at programs such as the University’s School of Law exceeding $110,000 a year, these changes to student loan borrowing limits will have an adverse effect on an already-deteriorating situation for graduate students.
In an annual report attached to a May 11 email from Jeri Seidman, associate professor of Commerce, outgoing Faculty Senate chair and incoming faculty representative for the Board of Visitors, the Faculty Senate compiled reports from the chairs of its seven standing committees. The reports detailed several initiatives and discussions during the 2025-26 academic year — ranging from new academic program expansion and artificial intelligence to faculty governance and budget transparency regarding the University Financial Model.
Student self-governance — one of the University’s foundational traditions — refers to a system in which students operate key institutional functions on behalf of the University. Several student organizations hold “special status” within this system, serving as delegated agents of the University and carrying out responsibilities that might otherwise be managed by administrators. These responsibilities include administering student elections, adjudicating the University’s Standards of Conduct, allocating Student Activities Fee funding for Contracted Independent Organizations and coordinating class traditions, among other duties delegated by the University.
Admission to the University is increasingly selective — but for many students, the competitive application process does not end with an acceptance letter. Whether applying to major programs, Contracted Independent Organizations or internships, many students continue to navigate competitive selection processes throughout their time on Grounds.
In a letter addressed to Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) May 29, Wahoos4UVA’s co-chairs — Class of 1974 alumna Ann Brown and Class of 1987 alumnus Chris Ford — asked the governor to look into alternative mechanisms to protect Virginia’s higher education institutions and maintain academic freedom after Senate Bill 494 and House Bill 1385 failed to become law.
Undoubtedly, the story of last month’s graduations at top American universities was the chorus of boos speakers received after touting the potential of artificial intelligence. Executives and socialites lined up to herald in the dawn of a new Industrial Revolution, one led not by physical machines but by immense computational ones. In almost every instance, the graduates greeted this news not with joy, but with antipathy. Their animosity is completely understandable — as Scott Borchetta, CEO of the record label Big Machine Records, told graduates of Middle Tennessee State University, “The things [they] learned in [their] first year here may already be obsolete.” This is, predictably, not welcoming news to students who have spent countless hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars to earn a college degree. Furthermore, the callous disregard with which these speakers turned joyous events into moments of existential dread must be spurned. For these reasons, I do not believe that these graduates represent a “jaundiced crowd” acting “with a sophomoric bitterness.”
During his two terms, President Donald Trump has found many ways of leveraging his position to line his pockets while dismantling democratic safeguards. His administration orchestrated an extensive, systemic campaign to purge the ranks of Justice Department prosecutors working on the Capitol Siege Case. He created a MAGA Memecoin cryptocurrency and his own Non-Fungible Token cards while destroying cryptocurrency regulations to make an estimated $1.2 billion from these digital ventures alone. He even moved to pardon convicted criminals who happen to be top donors to his campaign, like Charles Kushner, an individual who pleaded guilty to 18 federal criminal charges. Through these worrying developments, Congress and the Justice Department stood idly by as the methods of accountability within our government faltered.
The humanities have been the target of numerous attacks on higher education over the past decade. The fields encompassed by that title — history, philosophy, literature, cultural and gender studies and the arts, to name a few — have been criticized as politically motivated, unserious, non-lucrative and therefore, useless. Of course, these concerns are bolstered by the seeming ubiquity of artificial intelligence among college students, such that the work these students carry out appears to some capable of being completely, or in large part, outsourced.
Summer is finally in full swing, and its bright months bring about ample time for a wide variety of activities. One staple often exclusive to the season is going to the beach — spending time walking through sand, laying in the sun and swimming around the ocean. In cinema, the beach is often a romanticized, picturesque setting where characters contemplate, confess feelings or even sing and dance. In these three films, the beach itself is an important element of the storytelling, with the salty air, waves and sand effectively serving as characters themselves. These movies highlight the unparalleled energy that the beach can offer, potentially inspiring viewers to dip their toes in the ocean this summer break.
At universities across the country, a time for celebration recently became overshadowed by a sentiment far more solemn. Graduation speakers, from the former CEO of Google to the head of a record label, took to their podiums to herald the potential of artificial intelligence and to contend that graduates must utilize this momentous tool. Yet, this pronouncement that a new digital age had dawned did not elicit excitement from the youth who would experience this world the most — rather, it provoked a chorus of boos towards the speakers involved.
Monday, Chris Feifs was named the associate head coach and defensive coordinator for Virginia men’s lacrosse. The arrival of Feifs marks the first choice at the assistant coach level under Coach Kevin Cassese’s leadership of the Cavaliers.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) signed a bipartisan package of healthcare affordability bills at the Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Fairfax County May 13, advancing measures aimed at reducing prescription drug costs, limiting insurance-related delays in care and expanding covered health benefits for Virginians. Signed as part of Spanberger’s broader Affordable Virginia Plan, the bills sought to address rising healthcare costs through changes affecting medication pricing, insurance practices and patient coverage, according to several legislators.
“Picture this,” the Blume on Ivy website reads. “You wake up in your penthouse balcony apartment, start the day with a sunrise yoga class … all before your first lecture. Cold brew in hand, you head out caffeinated and ready.”
Editor’s note: This article is a humor column.
June 12
Twenty-three minutes into his introductory press conference May 27, the new lacrosse coach got to talk about, well, lacrosse. The word “offense” tumbled out of a reporter’s mouth, and Kevin Cassese’s eyebrows rose.
The Board of Visitors’ Advancement Committee met Friday and reported that the University has secured nearly $510 million in fundraising commitments for the 2026 fiscal year, putting the University on track with its five-year average, excluding last year's fiscal year. The Committee also reflected on projects to centralize and optimize the procedures for alumni donation collection and heard from the LaCross family, who discussed their $43 million donation to the School of Education and Human Development to establish a new early learning center.