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(03/17/21 4:32am)
Third-year College students Abel Liu and Gavin Oxley discussed their platforms and fielded questions from The Cavalier Daily and community members at the fifth annual Student Council presidential candidate forum Monday night. The forum was co-hosted by The Cavalier Daily, University Board of Elections and the U.Va. Democracy Initiative’s Student Advisory Council.
(03/09/21 10:28pm)
The Academic and Student Life Committee of the Board of Visitors met Friday afternoon to approve the establishment of 11 new professorships and two new degree programs. The committee also made enrollment projections for the next seven years and heard from two professors about their experiences with hybrid teaching. Following the committee meeting, the full Board met to provide a summary and conclusion of the meetings that took place Wednesday through Friday.
(03/03/21 6:23am)
University President Jim Ryan sat down for an interview with The Cavalier Daily ahead of the full meeting of the Board of Visitors Friday to discuss the start of the spring semester and proposals that the Board will consider.
(02/26/21 9:16pm)
In separate statements issued Friday, both the Inter-Sorority Council and Inter-Fraternity Council suspended all in-person gatherings, effective immediately. The ISC ban will be in place until at least March 12 while the IFC said it plans to reevaluate its suspension at the end of March.
(02/22/21 11:22pm)
The University’s COVID-19 tracker reported 252 new cases Thursday through Sunday, bringing the total number of active cases at the University to 840. This more than doubles the 108 new cases reported over the same four-day period last week.
(02/24/21 4:17am)
The first results from the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American student survey conducted by two members of the Asian Student Union last year were released Feb. 1. Since a large amount of data was collected from nearly 900 respondents, the findings have been divided into several reports that will gradually be released in the coming months. The first report focuses on the demographics of the APIDA population at the University.
(02/18/21 10:24pm)
The University addressed frustrations with the new COVID-19 restrictions and detailed its compliance reporting process in a University-wide email Thursday afternoon. The announcement comes after many students have expressed concerns about individual and group noncompliance with COVID-19 policies.
(02/22/21 5:16am)
The Virginia Department of Health launched a centralized website Tuesday allowing residents of Virginia to pre-register for the COVID-19 vaccine. By pre-registering, individuals are added to the vaccine waitlist and will receive updates when they are eligible to receive the shots. The process does not schedule an appointment.
(02/16/21 11:19pm)
The University banned all in-person gatherings and urged students living on and off Grounds to restrict movement outside residences to essential activities in a University-wide email Tuesday afternoon. The announcement comes following a “troubling” increase in COVID-19 cases and the spread of the more contagious B.1.1.7 variant of the virus. The policy will go into effect Tuesday at 7 p.m. and will be reevaluated Feb. 26.
(01/29/21 10:10pm)
The University announced in an update Friday that first-year applicants for undergraduate admission will not be required to submit standardized test scores in the Fall 2022 and 2023 application cycles.
(02/02/21 10:54pm)
U.Va. Health announced in a tweet Jan. 26 that some non-medical employees and students from the University had signed up to get vaccinated for COVID-19 despite being ineligible to receive the vaccine from the University. Currently, only U.Va. Health employees are eligible to get vaccinated at U.Va. Health.
(01/28/21 6:55pm)
Provost Liz Magill and Chief Operating Officer J.J. Davis outlined the logistics of mandatory weekly testing this semester, clarified the consequences for students who fail to report for testing and announced the installation of heated outdoor tents and fire pits for small group gatherings in a Return to Grounds email sent Thursday afternoon.
(01/28/21 5:26pm)
Governor Ralph Northam extended an executive order aimed at slowing the progress of COVID-19 in the Commonwealth at a press conference Wednesday. The executive order establishes a daily curfew between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m., mandates a gathering restriction of 10 people, requires that masks be worn in both indoor and outdoor settings within six feet of another person and bans the sale of alcohol after 10 p.m., among other restrictions.
(02/01/21 2:18am)
Students traveled back to Charlottesville for spring semester move-in this week. Despite the increase in cases nationwide the past two months, students reported being excited to return, yet cautious of the health risks that remain a pressing concern. Move-in for students living in on-Grounds housing began Tuesday and continued through the weekend.
(01/28/21 4:46am)
In an effort to manage increasing COVID-19 hospitalizations, U.Va. Health instituted a new policy mandating that all registered nurses, certified nursing assistants and patient care technicians in inpatient units pick up an additional 12-hour red shift — one that has a high need for additional staffing — every three weeks. The policy went into effect Jan. 10.
(01/11/21 6:26am)
The U.Va. Biocomplexity Institute’s COVID-19 model predicts a peak in COVID-19 cases in Virginia in February if the cold weather or new variants continue to increase case growth. Based on current trends as of Jan. 7, these circumstances may cause new cases in Virginia to peak at around 57,000 per week during the week leading up to Feb. 21. If additional measures are taken to control the spread, however, new cases may peak at around 30,000 per week leading up to Jan. 10.
(12/16/20 10:48pm)
According to the University’s COVID Tracker, U.Va. Health currently has 45 individuals hospitalized due to COVID-19, two of whom were admitted yesterday. Dec. 9 and Dec. 12 marked the largest number of hospitalizations U.Va. Health has seen so far, with 10 individuals admitted both days. The current seven-day moving average is 6.29 hospitalizations, whereas prior to December, the highest seven-day moving average had been roughly four hospitalizations.
(11/19/20 1:00am)
United Campus Workers of Virginia at U.Va. — a union open to anyone who receives a paycheck from the University, including students, medical employees, faculty and staff — published a press release Nov. 12 calling for the unionization of hospital employees. According to the press release, the union is seeking to organize hospital workers due to reasons such as “top-down approaches to management, inadequate staffing and subpar wages.”
(11/13/20 12:05am)
According to the University’s COVID-19 Tracker, there are currently 66 active cases of COVID-19 in the community — a metric that includes students, faculty, staff and contracted employees. There were 13 positive test results on Wednesday and 15 positive test results on Tuesday, marking an increase from the previous week where the number of positive test results did not exceed 10 on any single day. Active cases represent individuals who tested positive during the past 10 days.
(11/10/20 12:07am)
In response to the Department of Homeland Security’s proposed rule to limit the stay of international students in the U.S. to a fixed period of two or four years, the University submitted a comment to the DHS on Oct. 26 urging that the proposed rule be withdrawn.