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(01/04/20 12:53am)
The University officially increased its employee minimum wage to $15 per hour Wednesday, affecting roughly 96 percent of the University’s workforce and marking the largest salary raise in University history. The new living wage plan, announced last March and updated in October, covers 1,323 full-time employees eligible for benefits as well as more than 800 full-time contracted employees.
(11/18/19 4:53am)
The University’s statue of George Rogers Clark was found defaced with red paint Sunday morning. University police responded to the defacement by covering the statue with a dark blue tarp. This incident is under further investigation by UPD.
(11/16/19 7:05pm)
After receiving backlash from the University community for canceling the 21-gun salute for its Veterans Day ceremony, University President Jim Ryan released a statement Saturday morning apologizing for the University’s decision.
(10/28/19 2:40am)
Charlottesville Police were alerted Sunday night of an armed robbery reported at 8:32 p.m. at a parking lot of 832 Cabell Avenue — a townhome owned by the Management Services Corporation — near Preston Avenue and Rugby Road.
(10/22/19 5:02am)
National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver spoke in front of a sold-out crowd at Old Cabell Hall Friday morning for the Centennial Speaker Series Conversation. As part of the McIntire School of Commerce’s 2019 Fall Forum, the conversation was centered around the topic of sports business and moderated by Commerce School Dean Carl Zeithaml. The event began with Zeithaml’s conversation with Silver, followed by two panels — “The Evolution of Sports: Insights from the Inside” and “Game Changers: How Athletes, Startups and Industry Giants Disrupt the World of Sports.”
(10/14/19 4:26am)
The University began its “Honor the Future” fundraising campaign Saturday morning with a faculty panel discussing the health of democracy and the University’s efforts to promote civic engagement. The panel was part of a larger series of events on Grounds aimed at helping donors choose which aspects of University President Jim Ryan’s “Good and Great” 10-year strategic plan to fund.
(10/10/19 12:04am)
Reported incidents of on-Grounds burglary, rape, dating violence, domestic violence and stalking increased from 2017 to 2018, according to an annual safety report released by the University last week. The report, which is required each year under the federal Jeanne Clery Act, includes all crimes reported to the University Police Department, other law enforcement and University officials, including the Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights.
(09/25/19 8:41pm)
As part of the University’s 10-year strategic plan designed to make U.Va. the best public university by 2030, the Board of Visitors is considering a proposal to require students to live on Grounds for their first two years. Currently, all first-year students and 36 percent of second-year students live in University housing.
(09/12/19 11:40pm)
The University released a public service announcement video last week urging students and fans to “keep the Good Ol’ Song good” by not adding homophobic words or profanity to the song’s lyrics. The video, which has generated over 86,500 views on Twitter, was broadcast to fans at the Cavaliers’ first home football game of the season on Saturday night.
(09/12/19 1:17am)
The University’s Department of Media Studies hosted Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel and former Commissioner and Acting Chair Michael Copps Tuesday evening in Minor Hall for a public discussion on topics in media policy, including rural broadband access, corporate consolidation and network neutrality.
(08/28/19 12:23am)
For the first time in University history, students in the College will have the option to select two minor concentrations beginning this academic year. The College notified students of the change by email Tuesday morning — the first day of classes on Grounds.
(08/26/19 11:28pm)
When Nicole Leal, a fourth-year College student and president of DREAMers on Grounds, found out the University would start offering financial aid to in-state Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals students this fall, she felt that the change “came out of nowhere.” According to Leal, ever since DREAMers on Grounds started at the University in fall 2015, one of the group’s main focuses has been advocating for undocumented students to matriculate financial aid at the University.
(08/09/19 10:42pm)
In the final days before the two-year anniversary of the deadly Unite the Right rally in downtown Charlottesville this weekend, City officials have announced that they anticipate more calm than last year.
(07/26/19 2:45am)
Albemarle County police took into custody an armed man near a Fontaine Avenue parking lot threatening self-harm Wednesday morning. The man surrendered peacefully after talking to police for over an hour, and the incident was cleared with no injuries.
(06/28/19 7:36pm)
James A. Fields Jr., an avowed neo-Nazi who killed Heather Heyer and injured 35 other people when he rammed his car into a crowd of peaceful counterprotesters at the white supremacist rally in downtown Charlottesville nearly two years ago, was sentenced to life in prison Friday on federal hate crime charges.
(06/06/19 1:15am)
The University announced Thursday that it has received an anonymous gift $4 million to support the Athletics Master Plan and a $1 million gift to the Student Health & Wellness Center.
(05/25/19 7:42pm)
University Hall, home of the University’s basketball programs from 1965-2006, was demolished Saturday morning as part of the ongoing athletics renovation project. Former Virginia All-American basketball player Ralph Sampson returned to Grounds to push the button for imploding the building known commonly as “Ralph’s House.”
(05/26/19 12:27am)
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton visited the University on Thursday to address a packed audience in Old Cabell Hall on the state of democracy and the future of the American presidency. His self-written speech marked the conclusion of the three-day Presidential Ideas Festival, hosted by the University’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and the University’s Democracy Initiative as part of U.Va.’s Bicentennial founding celebration.
(05/20/19 3:48pm)
The University’s Miller Center of Public Affairs announced last week that it has begun conducting interviews with officials of the Barack Obama administration as part of its comprehensive oral history project of past U.S. presidencies. The project will focus on a variety of topics, including Obama’s transition to office, his response to the 2008 financial crisis and his role as the first African-American president in U.S. history.
(05/16/19 8:31pm)
Megabus.com, a discount bus service, announced that it will begin running buses from Charlottesville to Dulles International Airport beginning today. The company is offering low-cost fares, with special deals as low as $1 for those who meet fare restrictions. A bus ride from Charlottesville to Northern Virginia will typically cost $20 per person.