After a year under Student Council's direction, the University Unity Project made its debut nearly four weeks ago as an independent entity under the leadership of second-year College student Sheffield Hale and fourth-year College student Garrett Trent.
State budget cuts during the past year have chiseled away at programs and services at the University, but they also have impacted the surrounding Charlottesville area, where state and non-profit organizations have been forced to adjust to a stormy economic climate. Since early 2008, Virginia Gov.
Attached please find our listing of University faculty and select staff as of April 21, 2009.
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As part of its mission to produce global citizens, the University has increased its efforts to advertise itself abroad, especially to prospective students who could boost the international presence on Grounds.
University President John T. Casteen, III announced this summer that he will retire Aug. 1 next year.
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Although a handful of University faculty members received slight salary increases, the vast majority of faculty and University staff salaries remain frozen because of the current economic downturn, according to released 2008-09 salary figures.Faculty or University staff?The distinction between faculty and University staff does not distinguish salaries, but roles within the University, explained Susan Carkeek, vice president and chief human resource officer.
Last week, the Honor Committee encouraged University students to participate in its annual Honor Awareness Week with the hope of engaging and educating the University community about what the honor system entails.After hosting a series of forums and distributing flyers, the Committee concluded last week?s activities by hosting an ?Honor benefits benefit? Thursday night.
The University?s admission of increasingly diverse classes of students may receive more attention from many outside sources, but the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement?s office and the Commission on the Future of the University also believe the University has plenty of room to improve in another related area: faculty diversity.
Amid the current economic crisis, a common perception across the country is that many college and university humanities departments are feeling pressured as people worry about how a degree in the humanities will connect to a future career.
Students from the American Indian Student Union currently are working with faculty members from different academic departments to form an American Indian Studies program at the University.
With the current economic recession wrecking havoc and limiting access to services, the challenges of finding affordable housing in Charlottesville have become anything but easier, several Charlottesville residents said.
Although the presidential, Senate and congressional campaign trails have just concluded, the race for Virginia?s next governor has just begun.As of Nov.
A month after Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (D) announced budget cuts for state universities, University deans are still finalizing how budget cuts will affect professors, departments and students on Grounds.
In today?s digital age, University students come to the classroom with increasingly high expectations for technology use in lecture, according to Michael R.
Recent updates to the Higher Education Act of 1965 require colleges and universities to take a more proactive role in detecting and preventing illegal peer-to-peer file sharing and illegal downloads of copyrighted material.
From trayless dining to new bus routes, students may have noticed a number of changes instituted around Grounds this semester to improve sustainability in the University community.Most of the newly introduced initiatives involve adding services to already existing programs, University Sustainability Planner Andrew Greene said.
On the heels of Allison Routman?s and Mark Gruntz?s dismissals from the summer 2008 Semester at Sea voyage, several honor-related procedural changes have been made to the fall 2008 Semester at Sea Voyager?s Handbook.Routman, an Ohio University student, and Gruntz, a California Baptist University student, were both expelled from the University-sponsored academic program after they were accused and convicted of plagiarizing from Wikipedia.
The conviction and expulsion of two Summer 2008 Semester at Sea student participants on honor charges of plagiarism caused several parties to question Semester at Sea honor procedures and the fairness of the expulsions, even though Honor Committee Chair Jessica Huang has said the procedures were fully in accordance with all rules and regulations.
