The decision of the University’s accrediting body to place it ‘on warning’ for a year has reenergized a lobbying effort to block Dragas’ reappointment to the Board of Visitors.
The University earned a place on SACS warning list Tuesday after which many members of the University community took to social media to express their opinion.
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), the University’s accreditation agency, placed the institution ‘on warning’ Tuesday in response to Board governance concerns.
“No man is an island entire of itself,” read the seven banners The Seven Society distributed around Grounds just before sundown Saturday.
Charlottesville’s Human Rights Task Force Wednesday evening voted 6-4 to pass its final proposal to Charlottesville’s City Council for a human rights commission with enforcement powers — or, as human rights commission advocate and Education Prof.
Lawn residents have taken down holiday trees outside their rooms in response to requests for their removal by the University’s office of Housing & Residence Life.
The Albemarle County Police department has overhauled its policing model to more effectively target crime trends in the county.
Charlottesville City Council and the American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday went before a judge in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond to discuss panhandling restrictions at the Downtown Mall.
A number of recent hate crime incidents brought supporters of the LGBTQ communities to the Rotunda Tuesday afternoon.
The 67 unidentified graves found outside the University cemetery in late October have yet to be identified, according to a University news statement released Tuesday.
The Charlottesville City Council decided this week to postpone any decision on whether to raise the penalties for noise offenses in areas bordering the University.
Forty-six percent of University faculty are dissatisfied with their pay, according to a survey released during a Monday afternoon Faculty Senate meeting.
The U.S. Supreme Court last week decided Liberty University can challenge the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s provisions mandating employers provide health insurance for workers and requiring health plans to offer abortion coverage without copay.
The University Medical Center disclosed Friday it has misplaced an unencrypted handheld electronic device containing confidential information about 1,846 of its patients.
As the holidays approach, many people in the United States will be glad to know gas prices are falling.
Fourth-year College student Casey Schulman died upon arrival at a local hospital on the Caribbean Island of Dominica Saturday after being struck by a boat.
Former University professor Joseph Blotner, a renowned William Faulkner biographer, passed away Nov.
The University in collaboration with communications service provider Vonage announced the winners of the Vonage-OpenGrounds “Future of Social Messaging Concept Competition” Friday.
Rock band Metallica has helped raise $17,000 for the Morgan Harrington Scholarship Fund since it partnered with the Virginia Tech bookstore in October to allow the school to sell “Enter Sandman” shirts. Former Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington went missing in Oct.
Charlottesville residents gathered Thursday evening at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion downtown for a lighted vigil honoring people who had suffered from lung cancer.
