The initial hearing of third-year College student Martese Johnson took place Thursday morning at the Charlottesville General District Court regarding his arrest last Wednesday morning. Johnson was released on bond, and is scheduled to return to the court May 28.
The University Board of Visitors voted Wednesday to name Alderman Road Residence Hall Building 6 the Gibbons House in recognition of William Gibbons and his wife Isabella Gibbons, two slaves who worked in the Academical Village between 1840 and 1863.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Asst. History Prof. Lerna Ekmekcioglu spoke to students and members of the University community Tuesday about the 1915 Armenian Genocide, commemorating the centennial of the event.
The Board of Visitors announced recent faculty salary equity adjustments and discussed the 2015 MLK Community Celebration event and the President’s Commission on Slavery and the University.
Governor Terry McAuliffe signed Executive Order 40 on Wednesday, taking steps to improve law enforcement in the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
Student Council held a special session Wednesday evening on the resolution of the enforcement powers of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
Students United and University community members gathered outside of the Special Collections Library Tuesday to protest tuition hikes.
The Board of Visitors took action Tuesday on a 3.9 percent tuition increase for all students, with additional tuition fees for students incoming in the fall of 2015 and the fall of 2016. The proposal was held to an official vote and passed by the Board in a closed session on Wednesday.
University President Teresa Sullivan discussed the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed rating system for institutions of higher education with members of the Board of Visitors Educational Policy Committee during a meeting Tuesday.
The Black Student Alliance and the I.M.P. Society recently partnered to announce a social justice fellowship allowing students and organizations to use a grant to fund projects which will benefit the University’s and Charlottesville community.
The Board of Visitors’ Student Affairs and Athletics Committee met Tuesday afternoon and discussed the University’s Counseling and Psychological Services and new Athletics developments. Patricia Lampkin, the vice president and chief student affairs officer, said the administration is working to finalize an interim policy on sexual harassment and intimate partner violence, following the Rolling Stone article and its fallout last semester. "Student safety will remain a critical focus this spring," Lampkin said.
Lea Calvani, a child and adolescent advocate from the Shelter for Help in Emergency hosted a forum titled “The Confidence to Care” Monday evening.
Chief of the Chickahominy tribe of Virginia Stephen Adkins gave a talk called “Diversity Within the American Democracy” to students with the University’s Center for Politics’ Youth Ambassadors Program for South America.
A compilation of statements issued throughout the day Wednesday in response to the arrest of third-year College student Martese Johnson.
The Law school hosted Anthony Picarello, general council for the U.S. Conference of Bishops, for a talk about how the Catholic Church defines religious freedom and to debunk some of the misperceptions surrounding religious freedom in American society. The event was sponsored by the St.
The University chapter of To Write Love on Her Arms placed 1,100 black flags on the South Lawn Monday to represent the 1,100 college students who die by suicide every year.
The University Honor Committee elected its executive board for the 2015-16 academic term this weekend during an Honor Committee retreat at Graves Mountain Lodge.
Roughly 45 students and faculty attended Dr. Alfredo Artiles’s lecture Monday titled “Culture in Disability in the Global Era: Interdisciplinary Notes for New Research Programs.” The Curry School hosted Artiles as part of the Walter N. Ridley Distinguished Speaker Series.
Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine (SPJP) displayed an apartheid wall Monday outside of Newcomb to represent Israeli Apartheid Week — an international event at the end of February which raises awareness of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In a hearing set for Thursday, Mar. 26 at 10 a.m. Martese Johnson will plea not guilty of two charges — obstruction of justice and public intoxication. Johnson was arrested around 12:45 a.m.
