The Board of Visitors left the Rotunda this summer and traveled to historic Williamsburg for their annual summer retreat where Board members and administrators used the retreat to discuss progress on committee goals set at last year's summit.
The 17 Living Wage Campaign protesters arrested for trespassing at Madison Hall during their sit-in last April were successful in both General District Court and in their dealings with the UJC this summer.
As the first day of class rapidly approaches, many students are trying to secure spots in their desired courses.
At last Thursday's Board of Visitors meeting former rector Gordon F. Rainey jokingly suggested that the Board send its architectural plans to the New York Times, a reference to Adam Goodheart's New York Times article published in late May which criticized the University's architecture and the structural plans for the South Lawn project.
A University environmental science professor has come under fire recently from environmentalists and ethicists after reports surfaced that the professor, who is skeptical of the extent to which humans play a role in global warming, had received money from a coal-burning utility. The New York Times reported in a July 28 story that the Intermountain Rural Electric Association, a coal-burning utility co-operative, gave money to Environmental Science Prof.
University students and faculty are mourning the loss of Leonard Robinson, the University's first Diplomat Scholar and an expert in the field of African affairs.
The University Board of Visitors Buildings and Grounds committee approved the design for the University's Clinical Cancer Center during its meeting July 27. The main purpose of the new cancer center will be to house all of the cancer technology, research and treatment equipment in one building, said Peter Jump, University Hospital Center spokesperson. The cancer center will be located at the intersection of Jefferson Park Avenue and Lee Street where a covered parking garage now stands.
The University has appointed Maurice Apprey, a professor of psychiatric medicine and the School of Medicine's former dean of diversity, as the interim dean of the Office of African-American Affairs.
Break-in and vandalism occur at Delta Sigma Phi over weekend The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity house at 517 Rugby Rd was broken in to and vandalized some time between 8:30 on Saturday evening and 11 on Sunday morning, according to fraternity president Allan Cruickshanks.
Student interest in internships has been rising steadily for several years, and many universities across the nation are taking the rise in popularity into consideration when awarding students with stipends to off-set the cost of a low-paying or unpaid internship.
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.
