The University is set to become the first institution on the east coast with an endowed chair for Mormon studies, Board of Visitors members indicated Monday. Establishment of the $3 million endowed position will likely go before the Board in a February 2013 meeting, University spokesperson McGregor McCance said in an email.
The mother of former Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington is upping the ante on her campaign to obtain justice for her daughter who was found dead in a field in Albemarle County after attending a concert at John Paul Jones Arena.
The parents of two Virginia Tech students who died in the April 2007 shootings at the school are initiating legal action to take the university’s president, Charles Steger, to court. The parents filed an appeal Wednesday in the Virginia Supreme Court to release the bar on Steger that protected him from being tried as a separate entity from the state in a wrongful death lawsuit decided against the school in March. Steger’s attorneys contend that the case is not subject to appeal because the state has already been tried for the wrongful deaths of the two students, Erin Peterson and Julia Pryde.
The inevitable approach of the presidential election has partisans scrambling to garner the votes necessary to win, and pundits say the Latino vote could prove decisive on Election Day. When Max Sevilla, director of policy and legislative affairs for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), spoke to University students Friday, he was confident that the Latino vote would be a major, if not pivotal, factor in the presidential election in November. “In the 2000, 2004 and 2008 presidential elections the Latino vote played a major role, especially in states such as Florida,” he said.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report Friday that found 7.1 percent of the 1.7 million Virginia workers were paid hourly wages at or below the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour in 2011, more than double pre-recession levels.
The Jefferson Literary & Debating Society and the Washington Literary Society & Debating Union squared off Thursday evening in the University Chapel for a debate hosted by the Honor Committee about the honor system’s single-sanction policy.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion Thursday afternoon as part of a two-week tour of the East Coast promoting the teaching of compassion within education systems.
University Medical School Dean Steven T. DeKosky announced last week he will step down July 31 after five years at the helm of central Virginia’s primary medical facility.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin, a potentially landmark case that could eliminate affirmative action in college admissions. Plaintiff Abigail Fisher is suing The University of Texas at Austin claiming her Equal Protection Clause rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment were violated when she was denied admission.
The Association of Governing Boards’ Intercollegiate Athletics Project released a report Tuesday examining the role of university governing boards in overseeing athletic programs.
A strain of chronic fungal meningitis has affected an estimated 137 people in 10 states nationwide, and Virginia is the third-most infected state.
Charlottesville’s real estate market is showing signs of recovery, according to the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors’ third-quarter market report, released Tuesday.
The Darden School of Business is the number three Master of Business Administration (MBA) program in the world, according to the 2012 Economist magazine rankings released last week.
In a one-hour debate Monday evening addressing everything from job creation to the upcoming Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, former Democratic Gov.
A college degree remains a worthwhile investment, according to a new report released by the nonprofit think tank, Brookings Institution.
In a one-hour debate Monday evening addressing everything from job creation to the upcoming Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, former Gov. Tim Kaine (D) and former Sen. George Allen ® hardly paused to catch their breaths between attack lines.
It took the Charlottesville Fire Department more than an hour to contain the fire that broke out at the University indoor practice facility Monday afternoon.
Charlottesville Police have arrested a man in connection with the sexual assault of a University student on the morning of Sept.
By considering economic disparity rather than race as a factor in admissions, colleges and universities can actually become more diverse, according to a report released Wednesday by the Century Foundation, a progressive think tank headquartered in New York. The University currently uses race-conscious affirmative action when evaluating prospective students, but is reviewing its admissions process in light of an upcoming U.S.
Signs outside Dabney and Bonnycastle dorms on McCormick Road that tell students “No Smoking in Building or Within 20 Feet of Building” do so incorrectly since the correct distance is 25 feet. Confusion about the University’s smoking rules, however, goes beyond official signs.
