The Honor Committee launched a new process for evaluating prospective support officers Sunday, involving a University community member acting alongside two existing Honor Committee officers as interviewers.
University President Teresa Sullivan sent an email Monday afternoon notifying the University community of a patient being treated at the Medical Center who had been tested for Ebola.
The search for a missing University College student Hannah Graham is underway. She was last heard from early Saturday morning.
On September 21, New York City will host the People’s Climate March, the largest march against climate change in history.
The Board of Visitors’ Committee on Diversity and Inclusion held its inaugural meeting Friday to discuss the results of a study on wages of female faculty at the University.
The Board of Visitors met in full Friday afternoon to highlight committee discussions, including NCAA regulations, building renovations and the University’s financial situation.The Board reviewed plans and funding for major renovation projects scheduled for Clemons Library and the McCormick Road and Gooch/Dillard Residence Areas, and examined the new contract that the University completed with Aramark, which will remain the vendor for dining services for the next 20 years.
The Board of Visitors’ Student Affairs and Athletics Committee met Friday to discuss the University’s strategies for the prevention of sexual violence at the University.
By Katherine WilkinThe Charlottesville LGBTQ community and supporters came together Saturday in Lee Park, adjacent to the Downtown Mall, for the third annual CVille Pride Festival.CVille Pride spokesperson Amy Sarah Marshall said the event was an opportunity for the LGBTQ community to experience a sense of belonging.“The festival gives people, not just in Charlottesville proper but the region, an opportunity to be in a safe place, where they know that being in this park on this day for this many hours, they can be completely themselves without fear of recrimination,” Marshall said.
Nursing School Dean Dorrie Fontaine and Associate Dean Kenneth White published an editorial last week in the Richmond Times Dispatch expressing discontent with the public support for the field of nursing, calling for the empowerment of nurses everywhere.“We’re not [just] talking about the U.Va.
The Honor Committee has worked this semester to launch a new outreach campaign called “Everyone is Honor,” designed to expand University participation in the honor system.
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring visited the University Friday to discuss the role of the Attorney General’s office with regard to same-sex marriage and campus safety across the commonwealth.
Republican incumbent Robert Hurt and Democratic nominee Lawrence Gaughan’s campaigns are in full swing as they prepare to square off in the upcoming congressional election.Virginia’s fifth Congressional District has held strongly Republican in presidential elections, with Republican candidates sealing the win in the past five elections.
At the Board of Visitors meeting Thursday, student representative Meg Gould, a fourth-year College student, addressed the importance of student self-governance at the University.
Nearly one hundred University students gathered last night in Minor Hall to commemorate the events of 9/11 during the second annual Never Forget ceremony. The University’s Young Americans for Freedom hosted the event along with the Burke Society, University Democrats and College Republicans.
Thursday, City Council hosted the first “Our Town Charlottesville” meeting of the year. Charlottesville residents from different neighborhoods were able to express their concerns to City Council members and city staff.
Virginia Secretary of Education Anne Holton spoke to members of the University Board of Visitors Thursday about problems within Virginia’s education system, proposing potential solutions.
The Board of Visitors Finance Committee met Thursday, approving renovations for McCormick Road residence areas, Gooch-Dillard residence areas and Clemons Library.
Elizabeth Meyer began a two-year term as Dean of the Architecture school in July. Meyer, a long-time faculty member and graduate of the School of Architecture, succeeded Kim Tanzer as dean.
Alderman Library, the heart of the University library system, houses approximately three million volumes — valued together at $104 million — and serves as a major study space for students. The library is beginning to show signs of age, however, and renovation planning is already underway.
The Board of Visitors Subcommittee on Finance met Wednesday at the Special Collections Library to discuss progress on the University’s six-year financial strategy, known as the Cornerstone Plan, which was initiated in 2013.
