Following a flurry of new developments in the University governance crisis, the Association of American University Professors (AAUP) released a report Thursday lambasting the University Board of Visitors and Rector Helen Dragas for their role in last summer’s forced resignation of University President Teresa Sullivan.
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni on Friday appealed its Dec. 31 complaint to the Department of Education protesting “wrongful interference with institutional autonomy and governance powers” by the University’s accrediting body.
Several shots were fired on the corner between 1:45 and 2 a.m Thursday night. According to eyewitness testimony from first-year Engineering student Chris Glazier, the unknown gunman fired a third or fourth bullet through the front window of Mincers as he fled on foot.
The University and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation has awarded its highest honors, the 2013 Thomas Jefferson Foundation medals, to landscape architect Laurie Olin, FBI director Robert Mueller, and founder of Teach for America Wendy Kopp.
Forty-three members of the Library Faculty Assembly signed a letter to speak out against the changing designation of all library employees to staff.
Incoming library staff will no longer be designated as faculty, University Librarian Karen Wittenborg told library employees in an email March 1.
For the third time this academic year the University has canceled classes because of inclement weather.
Student Council approved a nitrogen reduction plan Tuesday evening, following in the footsteps of the Faculty Senate, which passed a resolution in February to curb nitrogen emissions at the University.
The Center for Open Science, a nonprofit organization that aims to increasing transparency in scientific research, made its grand opening Tuesday in Charlottesville. Assoc.
Counseling and Psychological Services hosted free mental wellness screenings in Newcomb Hall Tuesday afternoon to assess students for various psychological issues and traumas. CAPS partners with Peer Health Educators and the Office of Health Promotion to host the outreach event once each semester. “I think this program is always pertinent,” CAPS assistant director Dr. Leonard Carter said.
The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library’s Goodwill Committee teamed up with the University’s Women, Gender & Sexuality Program to host the seventh annual “The Big Read” event in Charlottesville.
Helen Dragas criticized the Faculty Senate for their condemnation of her recent conduct toward University President Teresa Sullivan in an email Monday.
An email exchange obtained by the Washington Post between University President Teresa Sullivan and Rector Helen Dragas concerning goals for the academic year reveal a continuing divide between the University’s leading officials. “I am not averse to stretch goals, but I also do not care to be set up to fail,” Sullivan wrote in a Feb.
The University received a $300,000 grant from the Office of Gov. Bob McDonnell Monday to plan a science education partnership with Charlottesville City Schools. The partnership will encourage scientific learning by providing students high-tech equipment to work with, Curry Prof.
The sequester developed by President Barack Obama and Congress during the August 2011 debt crisis went into effect Friday after legislators failed to reach a budget compromise. The plan, which Politics Prof.
University Army Cadet Aimee Moores, a member of the University’s Reserve Officers Training Corps program and a fourth-year College student, was awarded the 2013 General George C. Marshall Award last week.
Bob Schieffer, longtime journalist and host of CBS’s weekly news broadcast “Face the Nation,” spoke to Politics Prof.
The Honor Committee unanimously amended its bylaws Sunday evening to provide for the temporary implementation of the informed retraction amendment, which passed by the student body during elections this past week.
Gregory Joseph Canty, a 2012 University graduate and pathology lab employee in the Health System, passed away February 20 in Charlottesville at the age of 22. While at the University, colleagues said Canty distinguished himself as an outstanding student and member of the community.
A proposal to add informed retraction to the Honor Committee’s constitution, introduced by Second-year Law student Frank Bellamy, was approved by about 64 percent of the 8441 students who voted on the amendment in the University-wide elections this past week.
The University Board of Elections announced at noon Saturday the results of the 2013 University-wide elections.
