When a local energy corporation wanted to make a real estate contribution to the University valued at more than $5 million, it decided not to give the property directly to the University.
Gov. Tim Kaine asked the federal government Monday to declare the Commonwealth of Virginia an official disaster area because of drought. According to Kaine's spokesperson Kevin Hall, about 70 of Virginia's 130 jurisdictions asked the governor to request disaster status. "This has been pretty much statewide all through 2007 and it has prompted a lot of local governments to seek federal drought disaster status," Hall said. Hall said the Governor's Office is still waiting for the federal government to reply to the request. "We are hoping for a response as quickly as possible," Hall said. If statewide agricultural disaster status were granted to Virginia, farmers who have suffered crop losses from recent heat and drought may be eligible for "some very favorable" federal loans, Hall said, adding that "similar requests for statewide status have been granted to Delaware, Maryland and Tennessee." University Utilities Director Cheryl Gomez said there are three phases in declaring an area as 'at risk.' "The first phase is a drought watch, when the conditions look good for us moving into a drought situation," Gomez said, noting that Albemarle County and Charlottesville were placed under a drought watch July 23.
Commonwealth colleges and universities received a bit of a reprieve on Saturday after Gov. Tim Kaine announced state spending reductions of 6.25 percent as opposed to earlier requests of 7.5 percent for state institutions of higher education.
Student Council created an ad hoc committee last night that will review the organization's constitution in an effort to reduce confusion and design more concise bylaws that effectively correspond with the constitution. Council's previous executive board drew up and gained Council approval of the current constitution last semester.
A 16-year-old male was caught while attempting to steal a backpack from the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house at approximately 3 a.m.
The University recently selected a company that will provide communications software necessary to implement recent communications initiatives, including the text alert system and notifications on LCD screens. Visix, Inc. will aim to provide emergency alerts and relevant news updates to the University community, according to Visix President Sean Matthews.
Students from both the Engineering School and the College are applying knowledge from the classroom to help a village in Cameroon obtain clean water. Samantha Rowell, a fourth-year Engineering student and project leader, said she became interested in the cause when a guest speaker visited one of her classes last year.
At a recent City Council meeting, Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo proposed the installation of security cameras at the Downtown Mall in response to assaults that occurred on the mall during the summer. According to Sgt.
Enacting the largest increase in federal student aid since the 1944 post-World War II G.I. Bill, President George W.
According to reports this year by Fortune magazine, only 13 of the 500 top companies boast female CEOs.
Last night's Honor Committee meeting focused on discussion of the "flex exam" program, which, if implemented, would allow professors to administer exams online with a more flexible time frame.
Politics Prof. Leonard Schoppa and Biology Prof. Reginald H. Garrett have been selected to serve as the academic deans for the fall 2008 and spring 2009 voyages of Semester at Sea. Dudley Doane, director of summer and special academic programs, explained that the academic dean position entails designing the semester's curriculum, recruiting faculty to teach the courses and creating a "vision for their voyage" aboard the MV Explorer that travels the world each semester. According to Doane, the theme of Schoppa's fall voyage will be 'China at the Center
For the month of October, the Charlottesville Transportation Service will experiment with providing fare-free bus services for all riders in an effort to increase the number of riders.
As the result of 2005 legislation, the University is gaining autonomy from the Commonwealth in employee management; however, University employees expressed concerns at yesterday's Town Hall meeting about whether the University's new system will be more effective than the Commonwealth's strategy. At the meeting held in Newcomb Ballroom, Susan Carkeek, vice president and chief human resources officer, discussed positive and negative responses from an recent employee survey, which revealed both employee loyalty to the University as well as dissatisfaction with current policies under the state-controlled system. The survey was distributed in the spring "to ask questions about portions of the human resources department that could be affected by restructuring," said Alexandra Rebhorn, human resources communications coordinator.
After years of receiving heat for his controversial theories about global warming, University Environmental Science Prof.
This past weekend the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors and university officials met to determine how to process recommendations the university has received since the April 16 shootings that paralyzed the Blacksburg campus.
