Board of Visitors votes to remove Confederate plaques from Rotunda
By Anna Higgins | September 15, 2017The plaques will be moved to a location where they can be viewed as artifacts.
The plaques will be moved to a location where they can be viewed as artifacts.
Ryan will succeed Teresa Sullivan to become the University's ninth president.
The University will donate $12,500 — the $1,000 amount adjust for inflation — to the Charlottesville Patient Support Fund.
At the end of his speech, Jackson invited anyone in the audience who was not registered to vote in Charlottesville to go to the stage and register.
The Committee passed two action items, the first being a plaque to commemorate the University’s Bicentennial — the 200th anniversary of the laying of the University’s first cornerstone at Pavilion VII.
Chancellor Donna Price Henry reported a 70-student drop in full-time enrollment numbers this academic year.
They participated in a forum on ‘"Affirmative Action, Inclusion and Racial Climate on America's Campuses."
Students, faculty and community members remember and reflect on the white nationalist events and associated violence of Aug. 11 and 12.
Yen was the first student from China to graduate from the University in 1900.
“Plato was Aristotle's teacher, and Aristotle rebelled against Plato,” Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer said as he addressed a group of 17 students gathered in New Cabell Hall on a Friday afternoon.
Sullivan's emails come after a group of students shrouded the Jefferson statue at the Rotunda Tuesday night.
The Cavalier Daily recently conducted a poll of University students to gather data on their thoughts concerning the recent white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, as well as the various responses of the University, city and student groups.
“...I can say the battle lines will be drawn at public universities like us,” Sullivan said. “And in many ways, the First Amendment, certainly the religious liberty part of the First Amendment, was born here.”
Matthew Smythe and Scott Aebersold, the Director of University Dining and Marketing Director respectively, announced the board and discussed their goals for innovating the dining program, partnering with the local community and soliciting student feedback.
A group of protesters shrouded the statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of the Rotunda on Tuesday night.
Students stopped and paused throughout the day to reflect on the lives lost on that day in the north and south towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pa.
Two men, Jeffrey Matthew Winder and Edgar Brandon Collins, have been arrested for charges of assault and battery of Jason Kessler.
The Delta Psi fraternity held a party Thursday night which has been criticized by some students on social media as encouraging racist conduct by inviting partygoers to wear themed “cops and robbers” attire.
The working group was tasked with evaluating U.Va.'s response to the white nationalist torchlit march of Aug. 11.
The Honor Committee will also launch Lawn chair insurance program this fall.