[caption id="attachment_40763" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Downtown Business Association is advising Charlottesville establishments to install security cameras.
More than a quarter of Virginia households are at risk of becoming economically insecure, according to a report published Monday by The University's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. On average, the report stated, Virginia families require two times the federal poverty threshold in income to be economically secure. The report measures economic security by income adequacy - meaning that households earn enough to pay monthly bills - and asset adequacy - or the cash needed for "short-term financial demands such as job loss." These criterion better reflect the state's economic well-being than the federal poverty threshold, the report stated, because the poverty threshold does not account for the rising costs of household necessities other than food.
[caption id="attachment_40755" align="alignleft" width="181" caption="A revisited zoning code may affect local venues, including the Tea Bazaar on the Downtown Mall.
[caption id="attachment_40751" align="alignleft" width="205" caption="Newcomb Hall renovations will close a segment of the road until August.
[caption id="attachment_40595" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Student Council is working to continue its Hooliday dining program for Spring Break.
The number of traditional language programs in higher education has declined during the past 40 years, a study conducted by researchers at the University of California, Riverside concluded. Led by Steven Brint, sociology professor and associate dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the study looked at the number and type of institutions which offered European language degrees and later discontinued them. The study found only 59 percent of American four-year colleges offered Romance-language majors in 2006, compared to almost 76 percent in the 1970-71 academic year, though Spanish programs have not been affected in the same way.
Public universities are being forced to rely more on tuition than state funding in the wake of the economic recession and declining governmental support, according to a report from the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability. The Delta Project, a nonprofit organization that analyzes data relating to college costs, has indicated that the majority of the nation's public research universities draw more than half their revenue from tuition while other four-year public colleges are approaching the 50 percent mark.
The recession has impacted the state of marriage significantly in America, according to a survey conducted by Sociology Prof.
Gov. Bob McDonnell sent a resolution to the General Assembly last Thursday requesting a constitutional convention for the adoption of a federal balanced budget amendment to the U.S.
[caption id="attachment_40539" align="alignleft" width="190" caption="Asst. Prof. John R. Sirard researched the relationship between dog ownership and exercise in teens.
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced Feb. 3 that he will submit a petition to the U.S.
A student-initiated interdisciplinary minor in global sustainability is now open to all undergraduate students. Beginning this May, students can graduate with the new minor if they meet the necessary requirements, which include a global sustainability course and one upper-level class focused on community collaboration in addressing sustainability issues.
A proposed regulation announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would require that student health insurance plans provided through universities and colleges comply with certain provisions in the Affordable Care Act that was signed into law last March. Although the nation's colleges and universities are currently able to exempt themselves from the requirements of the Act by classifying student health insurance plans as limited benefit plans, the proposed regulation would ensure that students obtaining health insurance coverage through their school receive the same protections and rights as other Americans under the Affordable Care Act, an HHS news release stated. Under the regulation, insurance companies would no longer be able to drop the coverage of a student because of an unintentional mistake on an application, impose lifetime dollar limits on the amount spent on health benefits in student health plans or deny or exclude coverage for students under age 19 for reasons of a pre-existing condition.
The University's Teaching Resource Center has partnered with Information Technology and Communication to develop the eTAP, an online tool that allows instructors to collect mid-semester feedback from students.
[caption id="attachment_40471" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A proposed bill would prohibit cell phone use while driving, unless the driver is using a 'hands-free' device.
Virginia football player Devin Wallace failed to disclose a prior arrest to the University, which is a violation of University Standards of Conduct.
[caption id="attachment_40358" align="alignleft" width="236" caption="U.Va. Day gave Student Council an opportunity to communicate concerns expressed through a survey completed by nearly 2,000 University students.
Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va, announced Wednesday he will not seek reelection in 2012. "After much thought and consideration I have decided to return to the private sector, where I have spent most of my professional life," Webb said in a statement released on his 65th birthday.
[caption id="attachment_40355" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="Dr. James C. Turner's study shows national data to be 89 percent higher than Student Health's findings about fatalities among college students.
[caption id="attachment_40353" align="alignleft" width="211" caption="Former Virginia Supreme Court Justice Leroy Hassell stepped down from his position as chief justice last month.
