A recent study by College Measures, a division of the American Institutes for Research, showed students who graduate from Virginia’s public universities with career-oriented bachelor’s degrees earn more than those with liberal arts degrees.
Monday marked the final day Virginia residents could register to vote in the November election. Charlottesville City Registrar Sheri Iachetta said she processed more than 300 registration forms Monday afternoon. A majority of those registering to vote in Virginia since Sept.
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 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.
A strain of chronic fungal meningitis has affected an estimated 137 people in 10 states nationwide, and Virginia is the third-most infected state.
In a one-hour debate Monday evening addressing everything from job creation to the upcoming Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, former Democratic Gov.
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.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Tuesday announced an effort to convert all state vehicles to alternative fuel sources and to provide alternative-fuel infrastructure for the Commonwealth. McDonnell’s announcement came at the beginning of a three-day energy conference in Richmond.
Gov. Bob McDonnell is scheduled to fulfill his election promise that he will restore voting rights to more rehabilitated felons than any past executive in the state’s history. McDonnell has granted about 3,800 restorations of rights to felons since announcing his goal in 2010, according to a spokesperson.
The University Monday launched its annual drive to raise money for the Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign, a collective effort of Virginia public employees that aims to raise money for more than 1,300 charities worldwide. Last year University faculty raised $982,143, a record for the campaign.
Growing liberal tendencies in Virginia mean the state may no longer be a toss-up in the upcoming presidential and senate elections, according to predictions in Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato’s most recent Crystal Ball report. “It’s a polarized era,” Center for Politics spokesperson Kyle Kondik said.
Hiring rates at U.S. higher-education institutions have decreased in response to the economic downturn, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Center for Education Statistics, a branch of the U.S.
During a debate last week with former Sen. George Allen, R-Va., the first in the campaign for Sen. Jim Webb’s seat, former Gov.
Democrats have taken a clear lead in Virginia’s two biggest national elections this year, according to two new polls that show President Barack Obama maintaining a slight edge against GOP nominee Mitt Romney while Tim Kaine gained a new advantage over George Allen in the U.S.
Michael Mann, former University environmental science professor, will not have to give the American Tradition Institute access to his email correspondence and various other documents pertaining to his controversial climate change theory, the Prince William Circuit Court ruled this week. Should the ruling stand, it could set a precedent that researchers in public institutions do not have to disclose to the public proprietary documents relating to their research.
In the latest in a continuing battle over abortion care in the commonwealth of Virginia, the Virginia Board of Health Friday approved measures 13-2 requiring Virginia’s 20 existing abortion clinics to either abide by the same architectural standards as hospitals or cease providing abortions. The board in June passed permanent regulations that closely resembled the emergency rules drafted by state officials after the General Assembly passed a bill last year tightening building standards for abortion clinics.
Rector Helen Dragas’ history with firing presidents runs deeper than her botched ouster of President Teresa Sullivan this June. While serving on the Old Dominion Board of Visitors in 1988, her father George Dragas helped force the resignation of President Joseph Marchello citing poor communication with the Board and a general unease with the executive’s management style, according to news reports at the time. Marchello, an accomplished fundraiser, drew praise for his ideas but did not have a positive relationship with the state’s legislators.
With a little help from grassroots supporters, former Congressman Virgil Goode will have his shot at the White House in November.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan last week reinstated a fine against Virginia Tech for failing to notify students in a timely manner about the 2007 campus massacre. Then-undergraduate Seung-Hui Cho shot two Virginia Tech students in the early morning before going on to kill 32 individuals in total.
A Virginia voter identification law set to take effect this fall will likely have a limited effect on the election’s outcome, pundits say.
