The University recently launched a new advertisement campaign.
Public funding for state colleges increased slightly over the past year, according to the Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University’s annual Grapevine report, released yesterday.
The University of Virginia School of Nursing and “Hoo’s Well,” the University’s comprehensive wellness program, have teamed up for the second time to present the “‘Hoos Kicking It?” program.
The Cavalier Daily, the University of Virginia’s independent student newspaper, is launching a five-week campaign to raise funds for new distribution boxes.
After a few minutes of discussion Sunday night, the Honor Committee voted 22-0 to change its meeting schedule to better engage Committee members in discussion about key projects. The vote reflects an internal Committee change, rather than a bylaw reform. Starting next week, the Committee will meet as a whole every other week and meet in working groups during intervening weeks. The decision to propose the change came out of Honoe Executive Committee discussions at the end of last semester.
Businessman Wayne Coleman ® requested a recount last week in the election to replace Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam in Virginia’s Sixth district. Nine votes separate Coleman and Del. Lynwood Lewis (D). The race will decide the balance of power in the Virginia State Senate.
After 20 years of business, the Student Book Store on the Corner will be closing this semester. Competition from online vendors has forced the bookstore to shut its doors, manager John Kelm said.
The Global Studies Curriculum Committee hosted an open forum to discuss the proposed Global Studies major on Friday. Politics Prof. Jeff Legro, the vice provost for global affairs, said the committee was still working on shaping and organizing the curriculum.
University President Teresa Sullivan attended a conference of college and university presidents at the White House today to discuss expanding access to higher education.
Charlottesville Area Transit announced this week that it will add new, hybrid buses to its fleet this April. The project is part the strategic plan called P3 — Plan, Perform, Perfect.
The Rotunda will be closed during Final Exercises 2015, University officials confirmed at a meeting Thursday in the Rotunda Lower West Oval Room.
Virginia Delegate David Toscano (D-Charlottesville) introduced two bills on Jan. 8 intended to regulate the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Agency (ABC) in response to the actions of several agents in an altercation with then second year University student Elizabeth Daly on April 11. The undercover ABC officers mistook a case of water in the backseat of Daly’s car to be a case of beer and drew weapons, jumped on the hood of the car, and attempted to break the car’s windows.
The ideological balance of power in the state Senate hangs in the balance as a special election to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Mark Herring, a Democrat, is fast approaching.
At a meeting Monday afternoon, University administrators told several student leaders that the next phase of Rotunda renovations will impact Final Exercises for the Class of 2015 and potentially 2016.
Student Council met Thursday night in Newcomb Theater to discuss new initiatives for the upcoming semester.
Following his inauguration last Saturday, Gov. Terry McAuliffe addressed the Virginia state legislature.
An anonymous vandal scrawled the message “U.Va. hates blacks,” on a sign outside of Student Health late Sunday evening or early Monday morning.
The University school of Architecture Monday commenced its third annual “Vortex” workshop project, entitled “Route 29 after the Sprawl”. Students compete in teams to research solutions to traffic issues on Charlottesville’s Route 29.
Ryan Jones’ medical education led him to make a live-saving diagnosis last March when a mock examination took a serious turn for the worse.
After four years of stagnant production on the unfinished skeleton of the Landmark Hotel on the Downtown Mall, Charlottesville City Council must determine the fate of the East Water Street building.
