Schools across the nation have been cutting traditional foreign language programs, while enrollment of students studying those languages has been climbing, according to two recent studies on the subject.
Employers expect to hire 7 percent more interns this year than they have in years past, according to a report released last Thursday by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
At about 2 p.m. March 11, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit 80 miles off the coast of Japan. Within half an hour, a 33-foot tsunami came ashore and swallowed the entire port of Sendai, a city famous for its fishing industry.
College admissions nationwide have risen this year, prompting a record number of applications at many institutions, including the University.
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Two bills were introduced into the General Assembly last week calling for the privatization of Virginia's ABC stores, which are now operated by the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
The nonprofit organization WikiLeaks published the first of a large cache of confidential communications between the United States State Department and embassies in more than 250 foreign countries last Sunday.
At the living wage rally last month, students protested what they called the unfairly low wages of many University workers.
Although the University pays one of the highest entry-level wages in Charlottesville, living wage campaign organizers have said the administration is not doing its part to halt the United States' steadily worsening class inequality.
The issue of class inequality has risen to the forefront in recent weeks as the living wage campaign renews its push to improve the wages of the University's lowest-paid employees. At an event held two weeks ago, faculty and students rallied with chants - "one, two, three, four, no one should be working-poor" - renewing a debate that has long sparked conflict among students, administrators and staff at the University. The student campaign The living wage campaign is nothing new.
Crime is up in the University area - or so it may seem from the numerous recent safety e-mails. On July 20, the University Police Department announced that a student reported being sexually assaulted the previous night.
During the past two decades, state funding for the University has dropped from 20 percent to 6 percent.
Students on last year's Lawn Selection Committee are questioning the workings of the room admission process. Each year, the Lawn Selection Committee oversees a complex and controversial process to select which students will live in the University's original Academical Village.
With each new semester, University students - regardless of school, year or major
The Spanish department's two-year moratorium on the Spanish minor was instituted last September to alleviate the difficulty Spanish majors face when enrolling in classes, but even now that the freeze is halfway over, those students still are finding it frustratingly difficult to enroll in their required classes.
During spring 2008, Physics Prof. Blaine Norum received an e-mail from a student about an in-class cheating incident during the final exam period for his Physics 142E class.
After building its autonomy throughout the past year, the University Unity Project kicked off its capstone event of 2010 last week: Earth Week.
As the University has to expand even in the wake of dramatic cuts to state funds, the role of the school's president has expanded simultaneously.
