Two University graduates were selected in January to receive Mitchell scholarships they can use to finance graduate study at any university in Ireland or Northern Ireland.
Newly hired chief officer for diversity and equity William Harvey addressed the Board of Visitor's Special Committee on Diversity yesterday, proposing new committees and goals that he believes will help further the University's effort toward tolerance and equity.
The state youth advocacy organization Virginia21 launched the Save $1,246 campaign to plug the gap between the recommendations of the State Council on Higher Education and current budget appropriations. According to Virginia21 Communications Director David Solimini, the Save $1,246 Campaign was initiated to convince lawmakers to close the funding gap between Virginia college and university base adequacy requests and current appropriations.
The Jan. 19 article, "U.Va. alumnus arrested for alleged 1984 rape," incorrectly labeled William Beebe as an alumnus in the headline.
Virginians favor former Gov. Mark R. Warner over current United States Senator George Allen by 49 to 32 percent if they were to square off against each other in a bid for president in 2008, according to a poll conducted by the University's Center for Politics released Wednesday. The poll found Warner led his fellow Virginian in every demographic questioned except for Republicans.
The University exceeded its Capital Campaign fundraising projections for 2005, representatives of the Development Office told the Board of Visitor's External Affairs committee at yesterday's BOV meeting. The philanthropic cash totaled $128.88 million, 16 percent more than what was raised in 2004 and the second largest fundraising year in the history of the University, according to the briefing led by Robert Sweeney, senior vice president for development and public affairs.
Students across the University have faced extreme difficulties logging into the University's Integrated Student Information System, the computer registration and billing system, in the opening days of the spring semester. Students say the system, known as ISIS, is constantly busy and impossible to access, preventing them from finalizing spring semester schedules or completing final registration. Anda Webb, associate provost for management and budget, said University experts are working on improving the program. "We've tried to take steps to try and mitigate the problems by moving administrators off the system, making some improvements to the code," Webb said.
Another student accused of an honor offense has elected to hold an open trial, making this the second open trial during the current academic year.
The University administration unveiled a bias incident reporting system Tuesday. The new system allows members of the University community to file complaints online, by phone or in person. The University chose to define a bias incident more broadly to encompass incidents that would not necessarily meet the threshold under existing regulations, according to the incident reporting Web site.
Architectural, engineering and design professionals rewarded the University's graduate program in architecture with a third-place ranking in the 2006 annual Design Futures Council survey published last November in DesignIntelligence.
A 22-year-old incident of alleged sexual assault has resurfaced after William Beebe was arrested Jan.
A recent study conducted by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education showed that of the "public Ivies," the University has the highest graduation rate of black students at 86 percent. The study, which compared the graduation rates and enrollment of black students at high-ranked public universities, also concluded that the University has one of the highest percentages of blacks in its student body at 8.5 percent.
This summer, the University will become the academic partner of the Semester at Sea study abroad program. The program, whose origins date back to 1926, has allowed almost 40,000 students to spend a semester aboard a "floating college," the MV Explorer.
Freshly inaugurated in Williamsburg last Saturday, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will begin work with his new cabinet this session regarding issues in higher education. The Higher Education Restructuring Act Management Plan, previously known as the charter initiative that would give the University, William & Mary and Virginia Tech more financial autonomy, will be discussed in this session of the General Assembly.
The controversy over whether President George W. Bush broke the law by authorizing warrantless surveillance on communications between American citizens and individuals with suspected ties to terrorism continues this week with Sen.
Former Virginia Gov. Gerald L. Baliles will lead the Miller Center of Public Affairs as the fifth director of the Center, which researches U.S.
Participation in the oldest honor society in the nation, Phi Beta Kappa, is facing competition from newer honor organizations and is struggling with a lack of familiarity that is inhibiting membership at some public universities. The organization, which boasts 17,000 members among 270 chapters according to Phi Beta Kappa's national Secretary John Churchill, is launching a campaign to connect local chapters with the national body.
