Aramark Marketing Coordinator Kaylee Sciacca also provided senators with an overview of faculty meal plan options.
Senators spent the meeting expressing concerns over the failure to maintain standard best practices for appointing a high-level administrator.
The University will no longer require faculty and staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment.
Magill joined the University in August 2019 after seven years at Stanford University.
The majority of classes will start in-person, though faculty and staff with extenuating circumstances may apply for a temporary exemption to teach virtually.
The BOV, which will continue to meet through Friday, convenes in person and live streams meetings for public viewing.
The Board of Visitors’ Finance Committee will present and make recommendations for upcoming tuition hikes for the next two academic years at its 8:30 a.m. meeting Friday.
The letter was shared with a few of the plaintiffs and their legal team on the night of Nov. 22 and sent to University administration.
Top concerns included the difficulty of collaboration on the Microsoft platform and potential issues with externally created accounts linked to U.Va Gmail.
The alliance — a community of law students founded to provide support for those identifying as LGBTQ+ — expressed anger over Oak’s inclusion in a talk to “discuss the future of religious freedom as debates over religious liberties and LGBTQ+ rights play out in courts and communities across the nation.”
Emails, contacts, calendars and documents will be migrated — importantly, German said, students will maintain their same email addresses and access to old emails and files.
By investing a portion of its endowment in the fossil fuel industry, Divest U.Va. wrote in its petition that the University was directly contributing to the global increase in carbon dioxide emissions.
The letter contains the signatures of over 110 students and is undersigned by 12 organizations including the Black Law Students Association, the National Lawyers Guild at U.Va. Law and Student Council’s executive board.
Clemons Library had to change their operating hours due to the behavior of some students towards library staff.
Ryan also mentioned initiatives such as the Safe Ride program, Safe Walk escorts, Charge-a-Ride program and the new Guardian app that were detailed in a recent email from Robyn Hadley, vice president and chief student affairs officer, to University students and parents.
The building will feature a 1,100-plus-seat concert hall, a 150-seat recital hall, spaces for experimental art and rehearsal studios. Old Cabell Hall’s auditorium currently has a capacity of 851 people.
Goals include enhancing contextual information provided to inform tuition setting, a guaranteed tuition plan and assessing how changes to tuition and fees are communicated to students and families.
The conference center will house guest lecturers, alumni, and other visitors to the University and will also include the largest meeting space in Charlottesville at 10,000 square feet.
The main message Ryan emphasized regarding the University’s current COVID-19 policies — vaccines are effective and important in keeping the community safe.
The Committee will also vote on the state six-year institutional plan, biennial budget requests — including increasing the minimum wage for work study students — endowment spending policy, strategic investment fund guidelines and quasi-endowment action.
