This University was built on student self-governance, and a University governed by alumni cannot stand.
It is time for our Board of Visitors to recognize the moment they in part created and still perpetuate with their general exclusion of students from the presidential search committee.
Departmental budgets, staff and course offerings in the humanities will be tightened, while curricular innovation moves elsewhere. This shift tilts the University’s identity away from its liberal arts foundations.
Virginia must remember that, in this new era of college athletics, success will depend not just on attracting talent, but on keeping it.
While gender-affirming care is one of the biggest ways U.Va. Health is falling short, it is not the only one.
With a new class of students arriving in August, Corner restaurants will face another test of their price discrimination and thus need to learn LittleJohn’s lesson quickly.
The sealing law is one step to help place Virginia back on this path of treating its felons as equal citizens but it cannot be the last step.
Specifically, the reduction of funds in public transportation may leave University students stranded without convenient means of transport. But more broadly, the environmental impacts which deregulation may have are long-lasting.
Instead of focusing on outward expansion, the University should focus on internal expansion, specifically by working to utilize existing classroom infrastructure as much as possible.
Hence, voters must make it their top priority to think critically and closely as they decide who their ballot will support this fall.
There’s a reason basketball has a color commentator in addition to play-by-play commentary — and it is the same reason why Opinion sections exist.
As people continue to be harmed by nitrous oxide abuse, Virginians will see this new law as the ineffective, ultimately harmful policy that it is.
We must applaud the University for the efforts they are continuously making to be more sustainable.
While VERVE may shift student demand closer to Grounds, whether housing market effects will outweigh the harms of the University’s expanding presence is a gamble Charlottesville residents may not wish to take.
While the department’s pursuit of curricular innovation is commendable, the implementation approach raises serious ethical concerns.
Given the tenuous connection to battling antisemitism, we are left to assume that the Trump administration is actually interested in censoring a certain set of departments which promote multiculturalism and global literacy.
Resisting an unjust system should be at the forefront of university policy.
The unwilling departure of the FEI from Charlottesville represents the severing of a constructive accord between the government and the University.
In this uncertain environment, the University must act creatively and strategically to ensure it can maintain its commitment to affordability.
Adding more stringent security measures will not solve the underlying issue, which is that schools must do more to invest in students’ mental health.
