The confrontation between the Living Wage Campaign and University officials reached the boiling point recently as student activists initiated a hunger strike and began protesting across the street from the office of University President Teresa Sullivan.
Students can visit uvavote.com today through Friday to cast their vote for the position of Student Council representative as well as other elected positions.
Student political activism has a long lineage at the University, which has become increasingly apparent as Election Day draws nearer.
Thomas Jefferson envisioned an “Academical Village” in which students and professors would live and learn together.
Occupy Charlottesville activists may stay in Lee Park indefinitely until another location can be found, Charlottesville officials announced last Tuesday. Previously, the City had imposed a deadline of Thanksgiving for the group's occupation of the park, but the City extended the movement's permit last Tuesday. The continuation is the latest part of the Occupy Charlottesville saga, which traces its beginnings to September in New York City. How 'Occupy Wall Street' spread A group of activists began to protest Sept.
Since the economic downturn of 2007, Americans have grown increasingly familiar with discussions of budgets and financial planning processes.
The University Judiciary Committee usually acts behind closed doors. But earlier this month when the five members of The Cavalier Daily managing board faced UJC charges for allegedly violating the confidentiality of an honor proceeding, coverage in The Cavalier Daily, The Washington Post and other publications called attention to UJC procedures. When Cavalier Daily Editor-in-Chief Jason Ally’s case went to trial Oct.
Earlier this month, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the University a $2.9 million grant to help expand humanities initiatives through a series of interdisciplinary collaborations during the next five years.
Students may have noticed the University looks a bit different this year. Trips to Observatory Hill Dining Hall have grown longer, thanks to rolling hills of dirt overtaking the usual path.
In the wake of the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, University students commemorated the tragedy in a variety of ways.
The Board of Visitors agreed in June to cut the University's greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by the year 2025, citing the school's "tradition of environmental stewardship" and pledging to reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions to 250,000 metric tons from 2009 levels of 330,000 metric tons. Concern about lowering the University's environmental impact extends to more than this single issue, however.
A stranger attacked Caitlin Mahoney, a University alumna of the class of 2009, from behind as she left the Downtown Mall with a friend Oct.
In light of the changing environment at the University and in higher education, the Board of Visitors outlined plans for a review of the AccessUVa program at its meeting Friday. The University faces a new dynamic with administrative turnovers and an expanding student base.
This August, the nation watched as a bitter battle took place in the Capitol about the nation's fiscal trajectory.
In accordance with the University's ongoing progress toward building a more LGBTQ-friendly community, professors, students and alumni within the University's LGBTQ communities have called upon leaders within the University to actively seek to improve the quality of life for LGBTQ students and faculty, naming several important issues that University officials need to confront. A queer studies major? One topic on the minds of many within the LGBTQ communities is the issue of a queer studies major or minor, which currently does not exist at the University. "If a university is about learning and scholarship, we're really showing a lack of faith in the LGBTQ community if we don't offer a major or minor," said Sean Kennedy, who graduated from the University in 2000. Calling the University "world class," Psychology Prof.
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When Ellen Bass, an associate professor in the department of Systems and Information Engineering, came to the Charlottesville in 2002 with her partner and son, she had to overcome a huge financial hurdle. “It cost me thousands of dollars to be a gay person,” Bass said, recounting, “I didn’t get moving benefits for my partner, I didn’t get help to find my partner a job, I couldn’t insure her or her son with my health benefits” – options that a heterosexual employee of the University would enjoy. The University’s current equal opportunity and affirmative action statement, which was updated as recently as January 6, 2011, includes sexual orientation on a long list of traits that the University disregards while administrating its programs, procedures and practices.
At about 2:15 a.m. March 1, 2011, a first-year College student arrived at Martha Jefferson Hospital seizing and foaming at the mouth.
As fourth-year students near the end of their undergraduate experiences, some already are committed to more time in the classroom - as teachers.
[caption id="attachment_43429" align="alignleft" width="224" caption="House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan are key players in the 2012 budget proposal.
