The University administration has big plans to restructure the student advising system over the next few years as part of The Cornerstone Plan developed through the strategic planning process.
Student Council adopted a symbolic resolution Tuesday evening in an effort to encourage fourth-year students to donate their class gift to AccessUVa, the University’s flagship financial aid program.
Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds’ condition was upgraded to “good” Wednesday afternoon after he suffered multiple stab wounds inflicted by his son in his Bath County home Tuesday morning. First responders pronounced Deeds’ son Gus, 24, dead at the scene.
The Living Wage Campaign hosted a vigil for Jarvis Brown Wednesday night outside of O’Hill dining hall.
Recent efforts to make the University a bicycle friendly community have gained traction, as the University was recently named one of 75 bicycle friendly universities by the League of American Bicyclists.
The University recently established the world’s first research Center for Automata Computing as a collaborative effort with Micron Technologies.
At its representative body meeting Tuesday, Student Council expressed condolences and proposed resolutions to recognize several recent local and state tragedies.
Police are investigating Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds’ (D-Bath) attack in the early hours of Tuesday morning as a possible murder-suicide, Virginia State Police said at a press conference this afternoon. Deeds was stabbed multiple times in the head and upper torso, but is in fair condition at the University Medical Center.
City Council met on Monday night to approve a list of “legislative requests and policy positions” to be submitted to the Virginia General Assembly, including local gun restrictions and bans on smoking in public parks. The requests and positions submitted to the General Assembly were presented by Deputy City Attorney Richard M.
A YouTube video created by students at the University of California, Los Angeles, has garnered massive online attention and is sparking debate across the nation about race at institutions of higher education. The Black Bruins, an African-American student organization at UCLA, posted the video last week to voice complaints regarding their university’s low minority enrollment. Junior and group leader Sy Stokes narrates the video with a spoken word poem addressing the school’s statistical gap in minority enrollment, saying only 3.3 percent of the school’s male student body is African-American.
Charlottesville police are investigating two robberies that occurred approximately 30 minutes apart from each other early Saturday morning. Police have noted that both cases have similarities.
The University administration is requiring the University Guide Service to rewrite its constitution, reform its disciplinary system, and restructure its new member education program in light of the hospitalization of five students for alcohol poisoning during a new member event in early October.
In keeping with national trends, the University has seen a growth in the number of international students stepping on Grounds. The number of international students coming to the United States for the 2012-13 year was a record high of 819,644 — a 7.2 percent increase from last year, according to a recent survey on international enrollment by the Institute of International Education.
An Engineering School student was found guilty of cheating by a student jury in an honor trial Sunday.
Gov. Bob McDonnell appointed three new members to the Board of Visitors this year. They began their terms in July.
University Law Prof. Douglas Laycock has publicly challenged a new Hawaiian same-sex marriage law, claiming the legislation lacks sufficient exemptions for religious institutions.
The Organization of Young Filipino Americans held vigil on the Rotunda steps Friday evening for victims of typhoon Haiyan, which recently devastated the Philippines. The storm hit last Thursday, killing a confirmed 3,600 and displacing nearly 700,000 others.
The Special Committee on Strategic Planning met with the full Board of Visitors Friday to discuss the upcoming generational shift among the University’s faculty and the need to adopt a new hiring plan to focus efforts on new faculty hires.
In response to the recent cuts to AccessUVA, the University’s financial aid program, students stood together in silent protest on Friday afternoon to get the attention of the Board of Visitors. Students wore signs stating what AccessUVA means to them as well as duck tape covering their mouths that read “Access Denied.”
A $130 million College of Arts and Sciences campaign is expected to begin soon, as University administrators anticipate a professoriate overhaul over the next five-to-seven years.
