Second-year College student Gwen Tupelo passes away in car accident
Second-year College student Gwen Tupelo passed away May 27 in a car accident, Dean of Students Allen Groves shared in a University-wide email Thursday.
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Second-year College student Gwen Tupelo passed away May 27 in a car accident, Dean of Students Allen Groves shared in a University-wide email Thursday.
The Board of Visitors voted to approve the Committee on Free Speech and Inquiry’s public statement on free expression at the University during a meeting of the full board held Friday afternoon. The Board was also updated on the 2030 Strategic Plan and heard remarks from the new student member of the Board.
University President Jim Ryan announced that the University will create the Karsh Institute of Democracy to study the teaching and promotion of democracy thanks to a $50 million gift from the Karsh family. The announcement was made at a meeting of the Board of Visitors’ Advancement Committee Friday morning, and the University is set to match the gift, meaning that $100 million will be invested in the Institute of Democracy.
The Board of Visitors will meet Thursday and Friday to consider various action items, including rededicating the Frank Hume Memorial Wall and supporting the Committee on Free Speech and Inquiry’s public statement on free expression at the University. Meetings will be held in both open and closed session and can be accessed through the Board of Visitors’ livestream.
Fourth-year College student Michael Hammaker passed away May 21, Dean of Students Allen Groves shared in a community-wide message Tuesday.
University leadership announced that the University will no longer limit gathering sizes and that students, faculty and staff are no longer required to social distance beginning Friday at midnight in a University-wide email sent Thursday afternoon. Visitors from outside the University will also no longer be restricted, and students, academic division faculty and staff are no longer required to use Hoos Health Check app before coming to Grounds. Email notifications for the Hoos Health Check app will also be turned off.
As students and alumni departed Charlottesville following the end of final exams and Final Exercises for the Class of 2021 and the Class of 2020, for many, the challenges faced throughout the course of the spring semester have become a distant memory. Today, most students have had the opportunity to receive their first and second doses of the vaccine through U.Va. Health or their local health districts and cases within the community are at an all-time low — still, reaching this point required navigating a series of record-breaking caseloads, including a high of 229 cases on Feb. 16, fluctuating gathering limits and ever-changing public health guidelines.
University leadership announced that those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 do not need to wear a mask indoors or outdoors in an email to the community late Friday afternoon. The changes will go into effect Saturday at 9 a.m. and are in accordance with newly announced statewide and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance.
The University has decided to increase the indoor gathering limit from six to 25 people and the outdoor limit from 25 to 75 people, effective immediately, Dean of Students Allen Groves announced in a University-wide email sent Monday evening. This decision came as a result of low COVID-19 case counts in the University community over the past several weeks.
As a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Take Back the Night at U.Va. hosted an event centered around promoting healthy masculinity Tuesday night. Panelists discussed personal experiences with toxic masculinity and how to promote a culture of healthy masculinity moving forward. Take Back the Night at U.Va. is a CIO focused on raising awareness about sexual assault and power-based violence.
U.Va. Health officially paused the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine following the development of a rare blood clot disease in six Americans, meaning that University students who signed up to receive the vaccine through U.Va. Health will now receive either Pfizer or Moderna.
The Board of Visitors voted to freeze tuition for most undergraduate students and support recommendations made by the Committee on Naming and Memorials at a meeting of the full board Tuesday.
Members of the new Student Council administration took their oaths of office and members of the former administration stepped out of their roles at a transition ceremony in Garden IX Sunday afternoon. Third-year College student Abel Liu was sworn in as Student Council president while third-year College student Ceci Cain and second-year College student Ryan Cieslukowski were sworn in as vice president for administration and vice-president for organizations, respectively. Third-year College student Ryan Alcorn also stepped into his role as chief of cabinet.
The University officially dedicated the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers Saturday in a culmination of over a decade's worth of community and student activism surrounding the memorial’s construction. Numerous faculty, alumni, students, community members and descendants of enslaved laborers spoke at the dedication, which was streamed virtually.
At the meeting of the full board Tuesday, the Board of Visitors will consider implementing a tuition freeze for most undergraduate students and supporting recommendations made by the recently-established Naming and Memorials Committee.
University President Jim Ryan announced Friday that the University is planning to hold Final Exercises in person this May thanks to new guidance on in-person graduation ceremonies announced by Gov. Ralph Northam in mid-March.
The University is planning for a return to in-person instruction and activities and significant reduction in gathering, travel and visitor restrictions for fall 2021, University leadership announced in a spring 2021 update email Thursday. The announcement was shared by University President Jim Ryan, Provost Liz Magill and Chief Operating Officer J.J. Davis.
In a reversal of previous circuit court decisions, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled Thursday that the Robert E. Lee statue and Stonewall Jackson statues in Charlottesville were never subject to the state’s previous ban on removing statues.
The University increased its outdoor gathering limit to 25 individuals following a continued decline in COVID-19 cases, according to an email from Dean of Students Allen Groves Tuesday. The indoor gathering limit remains at six individuals.
As the student body prepares to begin voting in University-wide elections Wednesday, the University Board of Elections is investigating reports that the campaign of Gavin Oxley, Student Council presidential candidate and third-year College student, violated UBE procedure.