Politics Prof. James R. Sofka announced Monday in an e-mail sent to all current Echols Scholars that he would be succeeded as dean and director of the Echols program by Associate Dean Richard Handler. The change is effective as of this semester. "There was a transfer in the Echols program," Sofka said.
Fourth-year Engineering student Markus Weisner received the 2005-06 George J. Mitchell scholarship from the U.S.-Ireland Alliance.
University students returning to Grounds have more to worry about than getting into classes or tough professors -- a rape and a slew of robberies occurred in Charlottesville over winter break.
The Faculty Senate released a position statement on the Commonwealth Chartered University Initiative Jan.
Faculty and students who participated in the University's inaugural January Term, held over the past two weeks from Jan.
Access U.Va., the University's extensive financial aid initiative launched early last year, is expanding its reach earlier than expected in an effort to meet the financial needs of additional students, particularly those transferring to the University from Virginia's 23 community colleges. Beginning this fall, Access U.Va.
The University bookstore was packed yesterday as students navigated huge crowds to purchase books for their spring semester classes, which begin today.
The University received a $623,000 grant yesterday from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to train recent college graduates to work as "college guides" in Virginia communities. The initiative is part of a larger grant package the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation announced yesterday -- $966,613 to set up and bolster college access programs across Virginia. "These grants will give more of Virginia's students, particularly highly capable students with financial need, the chance to fulfill their dreams of going to college," Foundation Executive Director Matthew J.
Winter Break this year is not only a time for family, friends and festivities. For some students, it also marks the opportunity to take unique courses at the University. As of this week, 170 students are signed up for the brand new January Term, and 62 more students are registered for study abroad courses. "We are right in the middle of what we aimed for," said Milton Adams, vice provost for academic programs.
If exams aren't enough to complain about, students this year must adapt holiday plans and endure intensified shopping mobs, thanks to the lengthened fall exam week. The 2004 fall semester exam schedule, which ends Dec.
Students and administrators delved into major initiatives this year that hold the potential to change the University's image and the student experience. The charter proposal could give the University more financial autonomy.The diversity report recommendations promise a heightened focus on minority student life.Some students and faculty actively seek to end the honor system's single sanction.Other students are rallying against the University's confidentiality policy in sexual assault cases.The proposals bring much dialogue and sometimes hefty opposition. Discussion about University issues, though, took place in a charged political atmosphere as students took sides in the presidential election and President George W.
Student Council unanimously passed a bill Tuesday night requiring all CIOs that receive money from the Student Activity Fund to conduct annual self-audits.
The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights currently is investigating a civil rights complaint filed against the University's undergraduate program in May 2003. According to a letter from the OCR to University President John T.
Yesterday's ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the formal opening and completion of the University's Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library and the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History Literature and Culture on McCormick Road. Organizers said 670 of the libraries' donors and community members turned out to celebrate the completion of the $26 million, three-year effort. The new facility is 80 percent underground and contains 72,000 square feet of space that will house exhibits, the libraries' Special Collections Department and visiting scholars. Attendees hailed the completion of the project and anticipated that it would impact student life on Grounds by making library resources accessible to both students and scholars.
RICHMOND, Va. -- Democratic Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine and Republican Attorney General Jerry Kilgore, the likely nominees for governor in the 2005 election, debated each other at St.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project, the section of the Pew Research Center specializing in studying the effect of the Internet on society, released a report Dec.
In a test that measured the mathematics skills of 15-year-olds in 29 leading industrialized nations, the United States placed 24th, a number that is down from three years ago, when the United States placed in the middle of the rankings. The United States has since fallen behind such countries as Hungary, Poland and Spain. The Washington Post reported that the study, conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, placed students from Finland and South Korea at the top of the list with the highest scores. Over 5,400 students in 262 U.S.
In a show of activism against one of the most serious humanitarian crises of this century, members of the University community attended a panel discussion last night concerning the ongoing civil war in Sudan. "Tonight is the beginning of a push for justice in western Sudan at the University," said Jonathan Robbins, member of the Global Public Health Society and fourth-year College student. The Muslim Student Association sponsored "Genocide in Africa: Darfur" and invited University Professors John Mason and Michael J.
