Newly elected members of Honor Committee discuss plans for coming year
The 2020-2021 Honor Committee met for the first time over Zoom Sunday. Discussions included plans for the coming year and case processing changes.
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The 2020-2021 Honor Committee met for the first time over Zoom Sunday. Discussions included plans for the coming year and case processing changes.
The Honor Committee and University Judiciary Committee are suspending all case proceedings while in-person classes at the University are canceled. This means that all ongoing investigations and trials will be postponed until at least April 5, when the University plans to reevaluate its online instruction policy.
The Board of Visitors met Friday at the Rotunda for a meeting of the full board. University Provost Liz Magill discussed the state of student advising, and the Board heard updates from the School of Data Science and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, as well as University President Jim Ryan and Director of Athletics Carla Williams.
The Center for Politics and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy sponsored a forum Friday in the Rotunda Dome Room, where former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan discussed his time in office from Oct. 2015 to Jan. 2019 and commented on current political events. Professor Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics, moderated the conversation with Ryan.
Last Wednesday, Governor Ralph Northam, D-Va., signed Executive Order 49, calling for a state of emergency from 5 p.m. Jan. 17 until 5 p.m. Jan. 21.
The University Judiciary Committee has been focused on internal improvements related to member training and meeting format this semester and is planning to implement more external projects, such as research into the Committee’s relationship with University police and Deans’ offices, in spring 2020.
This semester, University students have received emails promoting the LiveSafe and Wildfire safety apps, but only the LiveSafe app is endorsed for student use by University safety officials. LiveSafe facilitates emergency communication between businesses or universities and their staff or students in the form of reporting channels and emergency alerts, while Wildfire acts as a campus-wide social network where students report incidents to the community as a whole in real time.
Tim Longo, interim chief of University Police, spoke to the University Judiciary Committee during its meeting Sunday, emphasizing his focus on building relationships between the University Police Department and the University community at large. Longo also mentioned his new appointment as interim associate vice president for safety and security, as he’ll be filling in for Gloria Graham once her resignation goes into effect Nov. 1.
With the Nov. 5 election less than three weeks away, six candidates are in the race for three open spots on the Charlottesville City Council.