University President John T. Casteen, III is the highest-paid public university president? of any in the nation, according to a survey released by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The National Council for the Social Studies awarded Asst. Education Prof. Patrice Grimes its 2007 Exemplary Research Award for her work regarding the history of African-American education in the South before the landmark Brown v.
The Institute of International Education recently released a survey that reported an 8.5 percent increase in American students studying abroad during the 2005-06 academic year.
Police were able to further their investigation into the death of University graduate and Charlottesville resident Jayne Warren McGowan this weekend after a sharp-eyed citizen identified McGowan's car in a wooded area off Fairway Avenue.
Despite incentives that the Charlottesville Police Department offered two years ago to attract potential police officers, the department is still suffering from a number of vacant positions.
Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, R-Pa., spoke last night at the University about confronting what he described as the threat of radical Islam and fighting "the war against Islamic fascism." The program, aimed at raising awareness, also sparked controversy among University student groups who criticized Santorum's stance. Santorum began his speech by addressing what he considers the two greatest obstacles the United States now faces in foreign policy: first, the dwindling support of the American people in sustaining the war on Islamic fundamentalism and second, the failure of the Muslim world to confront fundamentalism. According to Santorum, the lack of support for the war can be attributed to the activities of the American left, which he said fails to recognize Islamic fundamentalism as the real enemy and the immediate severity of the threat. "Our leaders' [inability] to define the enemy leads to the second overall problem -- the Muslim community's inability to deal with other Muslims who want to spread violence," he said. Santorum stressed Americans' failure to understand the fundamental cultural differences between American and Islamic societies.
A University student fell off a balcony during a party hosted at a private residence last weekend.
Motorcycle fatalities continue to increase, making this year one of the deadliest for the Commonwealth in terms of biker-related deaths, according to Deborah Cox, public relations coordinator of the Virginia State Police. Using data from the Department of Motor Vehicles, the state police noted 116 motorcycle deaths this year, an 87 percent increase in the number of fatalities that had occurred by this time last year, according to Cox. Cox, along with the state police, took an in-depth look at the fatalities during October, finding that motorcycle deaths over the last five years were most prevalent in that month. "Some of the common causes in the October fatalities were speed, running off the road, losing control and failing to negotiate the turn," Cox said. The state police did not perform studies to investigate why there has been such a sharp increase in deaths, but Cox noted a 51-percent increase in general motorcycle ridership since 2002. Although statewide statistics are alarming, they are not indicative of ridership on Grounds, according to University Police Lt.
The University recently added a number of Revolutionary War editions of the Virginia Gazette to the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections.
Based on a 20 percent increase in ridership during last month's free-ride experiment, the City of Charlottesville will now consider making the switch to fare-free buses permanent. The Charlottesville Transit Service began offering fare-free transit on its buses last month as part of an experiment to make the transit system more competitive with automobiles, City Councilor Dave Norris said. "It's a way to test whether we'd see any significant increase in ridership," Norris said.
The University's Security and General Safety Committee identified safety and lighting concerns in the areas behind Hereford College, around the Student Activities Building and around the construction in front of the drama building during a night tour of Grounds last Thursday. The night tour, conducted biannually by the committee, allows members to look into concerns that have been raised by students, faculty and staff about safety around Grounds, according to committee Chair Mark Fletcher. "It's always interesting, because it's one thing to hear someone's request and then another to see it firsthand," Fletcher said.
An 18-year-old male fell victim to a robbery behind the University Grill located on Ivy Road Wednesday evening.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education recently announced that John Jane, University professor of neurological surgery, is a recipient of the 2008 Parker J.
Students, faculty and staff have faceda barrage of information concerning the upgrades to University security since the April 16 Virginia Tech shootings.
Neither second-year Darden student Michael O'Brien nor first-year Darden student Natalia Postrigan expected their teams to make it to the finals in the business competition known as the Innovation Challenge.
An e-mail sent to residents of Brown College yesterday warned students of suspicious phone calls from people claiming to be affiliated with the University who were asking for money. The e-mail, sent by Resident Staff member Shaheen Ali, urged students not to offer personal information over the phone. A student who wished to remain anonymous because of concerns for her safety said she received two such phone calls several weeks apart.
