An overwhelming majority of the current Board of Visitors members contributed monetarily to the campaign of Gov. Bob McDonnell prior to their selection, according to data from the Virginia Public Access Project, highlighting a statewide trend of political contributors being placed on public university governing bodies.
After a seven-year legal battle, an appellate court ruled Wednesday in favor of The Cavalier Daily and Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Times, allowing the two publications to publish advertisements for alcoholic beverages in college newspapers. The U.S.
Fluorescent lights shine harshly over the tiled floors and empty couches of the waiting area of the Medical Center’s Emergency Room.
Virginia Secretary of Education Laura Fornash will join the University as a new executive assistant to the President, the University announced Tuesday.
The University has recently faced growing demand for the creation of an African Studies major within the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies.
A group of University alumni is leading an effort to redirect the power to select some members of the University’s Board of Visitors away from the state government and to University alumni.
As a part of the administration’s new strategic plan, the University is set to adopt a new model of what University President Teresa Sullivan calls “continuous active recruitment,” in which faculty will be recruited and hired on a rolling basis rather than episodically. The new process will involve collaboration among deans from different schools to help implement broader faculty hiring practices, which Sullivan said would help to combat departmental isolation.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit yesterday ruled in the favor of the Cavalier Daily in a seven-year legal battle surrounding the legal advertisement of alcoholic beverages and products in collegiate newspaper publications.
Country fans decked out in boots, cut-off jeans, tank tops and camouflage piled into downtown Charlottesville’s Jefferson Theater last Thursday, hoping for the chance to stand in the front row to see smooth-singing Nashville-native Kip Moore perform.
On Friday night, the University Programs Council put on an improv comedy show in Newcomb Ballroom featuring UVa’s own groups, the Whethermen and Amuse Bouche, as well as the Upright Citizens Brigade, a nationally renowned ensemble whose notable alumni include Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz, among others.
The origins of DJ duo Ratchet Cat are almost as epic as their stage name. Eeshaan Sachatheva and Ishaan Chaudhary, two current fourth year students in the Comm and E-school, respectively, happened to meet up in New Delhi two summers ago and kick-started their music career together over a shared passion for music.
Guest speaker Anthony D’Augelli, a professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University, spoke Monday evening on the pervasiveness of mental health issues among LGBTQ youth. The event was co-sponsored by the Psychology Department; the Women, Gender and Sexuality program; and the LGBT Resource Center. D’Augelli is widely published author, with particular focus on LGBTQ, mental health and family issues.
Twelve University faculty members were honored on Saturday evening as new participants in the Mead Endowment Program, a program designed to help connect students and professors both in and out of the classroom.
On Thursday, the Board of Visitors approved the Bachelor of Science in Education in Youth and Social Innovation, a new prospective major program in the Curry School of Education.
The various Republican and Democratic campaigns in the Virginia Gubernatorial, lieutenant gubernatorial, and Attorney General races released their fundraising statistics for the period of July 1st through August 31st 2013 about one week ago. Over the course of the above period, Ken Cucinelli, the Republican candidate for governor raised $5,688,220, while Democratic Candidate Terry McAuliffe raised $7,355,244.
The rising cost of attending college is driven partly by universities using students’ tuition and fees to finance non-academic services, such as athletic programs, campus recreation and student housing, according to a report released by the Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission.
A committee from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools completed its three-day review of the University’s commitment to the accrediting agency’s “core practices.” The agency placed the University on a one-year warning following the resignation and reinstatement of University President Teresa Sullivan in the summer of 2012.
The Virginia Attorney General’s office submitted a brief to the Virginia Court of Appeals this week giving the state’s opinion on the appeal effort of former University student George Huguely, who was found guilty in February 2012 of grand larceny and the second degree murder of his on-again, off-again girlfriend Univeristy student Yeardley Love.
Appointed by the Virginia Governor and charged with seeing to the effective and transparent governance of the University, the Board of Visitors consists of 19 members — former professors and faculty, business owners, working professionals and one non-voting student.
The Faculty Senate convened Tuesday for its first meeting of the 2013-14 academic year to discuss the five identified pillars of the University’s strategic planning initiative, which will be presented to the Board of Visitors when it convenes later in the month.
