The issue is that it seems as though the University cannot walk and chew gum at the same time.
This change is a blatant way to identify struggling schools to parents and legislators, allowing both groups to avoid them like the plague.
The University must implement a mandatory first-year personal finance and literacy course to provide students with the necessary skills for college and thereafter.
Basing policy off of purely environmental concerns ignores reality and disregards economically sustainable solutions.
Students should be able to safely and peacefully demonstrate for causes they believe in without being driven away by the threat of violence and intimidation.
Dialogue too often reframes conflict, normalizing rather than rectifying conditions of injustice.
The University succeeded where many other institutions fell short.
The University must do a better job building understanding by listening to the voices of those with firsthand knowledge.
We must, as the students of Jewish and Muslim communities, ensure that humanization, not hate, is the focal point of our interactions.
The administration’s recent suspension of the University Guide Services further demonstrates a willingness to dismiss the practice of bottom-up student self-governance.
The Echols Scholars Program should require a limited amount of advanced general education requirements.
While the second-year housing expansion may be well intentioned, the manner in which it is being undertaken belies its fundamental goals.
As such, the University must require more extensive language education in order to truly equip students to meet both the stated requirement goal and the linguistic and cultural demands of a globalized world.
The Virginian tax code as it stands is rather uninteresting. What is super intriguing is how politicians use it.
It’s a shame that our administration seems willing to sacrifice authenticity for ease.
Vandalism is not a protected form of political protest, but the University’s response erroneously classifies a political act as a statement of ethnic enmity.
Given the success of ranked choice voting elsewhere in America and abroad, ranked choice voting will likely animate Charlottesville voters and improve our elections.
Undeniably, having such barriers to entry for the University’s nightlife explicitly squashes fun.
As an institution responsible to University students and Virginia voters, the main qualification standard for Board appointment ought to be some personal connection to both these stakeholders.
I understand this event could be seen as “breaking news,” but your reporting left out relevant, easy-to-find, publicly available data to give it proper context.
