COHEN: Facing federal cuts, U.Va. must defend affordability
By Ryan Cohen | April 3, 2025In this uncertain environment, the University must act creatively and strategically to ensure it can maintain its commitment to affordability.
In this uncertain environment, the University must act creatively and strategically to ensure it can maintain its commitment to affordability.
This has grown into a pattern of failing the rights of noncitizens to due process and overstepping judicial checks and balances on the executive branch.
Adding more stringent security measures will not solve the underlying issue, which is that schools must do more to invest in students’ mental health.
In this sense, neglecting to publicize the report itself further erodes public trust in U.Va. Health.
These materials are paramount to teaching civics in the state, and officials must take due care to ensure any funding cuts will not hamper access to them.
Casteen may be best remembered as the founder of AccessUVA, a scholarship program to support undergraduate students whose qualifications were excellent, but whose families would be hard pressed to afford college tuition.
Perhaps, it may seem as though the University is hosting a decent amount of events, and criticisms of its engagement or genuineness sound nitpicky.
Each student, employee, faculty member and University and Charlottesville community member deserves to feel safe, a feeling that has been uprooted in the past few weeks.
The bottom line is that an institutional shift has occurred. Today, DEI is done at the University — and we are all worse off because of it.
Although frustration at the timing and specificity of the police response to this situation is understandable, UPD’s response must be understood in the context of other safety challenges over the past few years.
Advocates saving AI a seat in the classroom are in desperate need of a reality check.
The Contemplative Commons stands as a testament to the value of spaces that transcend commercial imperatives, fostering interdisciplinary engagement and experiential learning.
Penicillin was discovered in a moldy petri dish — this government would have it thrown out because it was wasting space on the counter.
By attempting to contain, or even eliminate uncomfortable narratives, the administration incrementally consolidates power and frays communal trust.
Ramadan at the University should not be a time in which students must choose between academic success and religious observance.
The combination of poor staffing and high incarceration rates is no coincidence — incarceration in Virginia is a profit-driven business.
Throughout their tenures on the Student Council, these candidates have shown a sincere commitment to external accountability and an ability to critically analyze internal inefficiencies.
Each candidate has looked to the past to gain a comprehensive understanding of the Honor system and has also exhibited forward-thinking solutions to the Committee’s present challenges.
All four of these candidates articulated innovative and practical ideas to better promote the internal sustainability of UJC.
Furthermore, each of these candidates passionately established their focus on the protection of student resources through bargaining with administration.