Soulful music flooded the lecture hall at the Harrison Institute Special Collections library Wednesday as more than 100 people gathered to honor the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s March on Washington. Deborah McDowell, director of the University’s Carter G.
A proposed change to the Honor Committee’s bylaws could drastically change the way new members are recruited and trained.
The University’s office of the Vice President for Research announced a new big data initiative, the Big Data Institute, at the Board of Visitors retreat earlier in the month.
The University recently unveiled a report about the post-graduation plans of May 2012 graduates from the University.
This month’s vote by the University’s Board of Visitors to reauthorize a modified version of the touted AccessUVa program has renewed a debate about the University’s obligation to promote socioeconomic diversity amid deepening cuts in federal and state funding of public universities.
Spouses of University employees may lose access to the University’s health care plan next year. Those whose employers provide health care plans which meet the minimum requirements of the Affordable Care Act will be removed from University family insurance plans starting in January.
After 82 years without any major renovations, the McCormick Road bridge underwent a complete reconstruction this summer, reopening to traffic July 29. The bridge was out of commission for all vehicles weighing more than 8 tons starting July 2012 after corrosion was found in the bridge deck.
Lile-Maupin, Tuttle-Dunnington, and Shannon dorms opened with renovations this past week, with a total of 570 new residents making the buildings their home for the next year. Renovations came to a total cost of $69.8 million
Spouses of University employees who have access to health care plans through their own employers will no longer be eligible to receive insurance from the University as part of a family plan, the University announced in a press release Wednesday.
The Cavalier Daily will unveil the first edition of its newly designed newsmagazine on Aug. 27, as students return to the University for the 2013 fall semester.
University President Teresa Sullivan announced to faculty and staff on July 22 the creation of a task force following the inadvertent leak of more than 18,000 students’ social security numbers.
The day before the Board of Visitors began its August retreat to review strategic planning initiatives, Student Council sent Board members a letter outlining Council’s priorities and concerns for the University community. The eight-page document detailed the five areas Council considers most crucial for the University moving forward: financial aid programs, racial diversity among the student body, student representation on the Board, leadership transparency and revamping technological infrastructure. Jalen Ross, Council’s director of university relations, said the letter was a collaborative effort between Council leadership.
As first-year students move into their dorms this weekend, they bring to Grounds more than 3,000 Wahoos who represent the University’s standard caliber of academic achievement and a geographically and racially diverse crowd. The Class of 2017 averages an SAT math and verbal score of 1349, keeping close with the Class of 2016’s 1350.
University President Teresa Sullivan named Dr. Richard Shannon the Executive Vice-President for Health Affairs earlier this month. Shannon will begin officially as EVP on November 1, though he will begin commuting to Charlottesville on September 1.
President Sullivan joins close to 200 university presidents in a renewed effort to stop Congress from cutting education funding, funding which is critical to closing the “innovation gap” between the U.S. and foreign nations.
The Board of Visitors voted to reauthorize a modified AccessUVa Saturday which will eliminate the option for students in the lowest income bracket to receive all-grant aid packages. Rector George Martin said the change was necessary to meet increasing demand with lessening federal support.
Student Council’s Director of University Relations Jalen Ross, a third-year Engineering student, will serve as a student representative on the task force commissioned by University President Teresa Sullivan last week to examine the breach involving more than 18,000 students’ social security numbers, said Student Council President Eric McDaniel, a fourth-year College student.
Following a security leak which exposed the social security numbers of more than 18,000 students, fourth-year College student Neil Branch, student council’s vice president for organizations, is calling for increased student input on the University’s approach to the security of personal information.
More than 18,000 students received an informational brochure from Aetna Health Insurance earlier this month which inadvertently included their social security numbers above their names on the address labels.
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Approximately 18,700 students’ social security numbers may be compromised after a mailing error printed the numbers on the outside of envelopes sent directly to students, University spokesperson McGregor McCance confirmed in an email Wednesday.
