Correction The July 20 News article "Turner put on leave after probation agreement" erroneously identified Gregory Jackson as president of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
The Board of Visitors will go on their annual summer retreat July 28 in Williamsburg with an "evolving" CASE, or mission, statement for the launch of the $3 billion Capital Campaign in September. While Board Rector Thomas F.
After serving 18 years as the University's dean of African-American affairs, M. Rick Turner, 65, announced that he will retire from the University at the end of the month.
University Medical Center to provide medical services to 3,500 in Wise, Va. On Friday July 28 at 6 a.m.
In June, the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education put out a draft report proposing the creation of a national database to track information about individual students such as financial aid standing, for students at the nation's colleges and universities. In March 2005, the National Center for Education Statistics put out a study examining "the feasibility of collecting individual enrollment and financial aid information for each student in postsecondary education." The study examined both whether or not such a system could be and should be implemented.
Parking rates at three parking locations at the Downtown Mall will increase effective August 1. The Market St.
WASHINGTON -- Last Friday, the Network of Enlightened Women, an organization founded at the University in the fall of 2004 to promote a conservative women's movement, held its first annual national conference in Washington, D.C. At the conference, entitled "A NeW Generation of Women," NeW founder and University Law student Karin Agness led women from more than 30 colleges as they gathered to strategize and share their schools' chapters of NeW.
Dean of African-American Affairs M. Rick Turner has been put on administrative leave after signing a pretrial diversion agreement with federal prosecutors.
After 56 years on the Corner, Eljo's Traditional Clothes will relocate to the Millmont Shops behind Barracks Road August 15.
In recent years, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the National Research Council have ranked the University below some of the top schools in the country in regards to the number of graduate studies programs and funds allocated for them.
A recent graduate of the University was hit early yesterday by a train while lying on the tracks near Elliewood Avenue. At around 4:10 am, the conductor of the train noticed Richard Rogers lying on the tracks about 100 feet away.
Sarah Wilcox has been selected as the new assistant dean of students, replacing departing assistant dean Daisy Rodriguez.
The Virginia Attorney General's office responded July 11 to a lawsuit filed by The Cavalier Daily and Virginia Tech's Collegiate Times.
The University of Virginia has agreed to discuss sponsoring the first classes held at the New College Institute in Martinsville, Va.
This year's crop of incoming first-years will take in the traditional fare of orientation programming this summer, but with a twist: a new component discussing the potential dangers of social networking Web sites like Facebook and MySpace. During orientation, members of the University's Information Technology and Computing division will talk to students about the potential dangers associated with posting too much information on public networking sites. "There is a balancing act here," said University spokesperson Jeff Hanna.
A new law will imposing a mandatory one-year driver's license suspension for anyone convicted of buying alcohol for underage drinkers went into effect Saturday.
James Hilton officially took office as the University's vice president and chief information officer July 1.
PARIS -- Paris celebrated the 230th anniversary of American independence by commemorating Thomas Jefferson with a 10-foot bronze statue of the former minister to France along the Seine River. The statue of the third American president, who served as minister to France from 1785 to 1789, is the first erected in France.
The management agreement between the University and the Commonwealth under the Higher Education Restructuring Act went into effect July 1.
In recognition of the success of the University's College Guide program, which aims at increasing college applications and enrollment of Virginia high school students, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has recognized the program with a $470,000 grant.
