Spouses of University employees may lose access to the University’s health care plan next year. Those whose employers provide health care plans which meet the minimum requirements of the Affordable Care Act will be removed from University family insurance plans starting in January.
Lile-Maupin, Tuttle-Dunnington, and Shannon dorms opened with renovations this past week, with a total of 570 new residents making the buildings their home for the next year. Renovations came to a total cost of $69.8 million
Each fall, U.Va. students are reminded of the spirited extracurricular involvement which defines life on Grounds — and the tendency for many engaging groups to be pushed out of the spotlight.
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Spouses of University employees who have access to health care plans through their own employers will no longer be eligible to receive insurance from the University as part of a family plan, the University announced in a press release Wednesday.
The Cavalier Daily will unveil the first edition of its newly designed newsmagazine on Aug. 27, as students return to the University for the 2013 fall semester.
University President Teresa Sullivan announced to faculty and staff on July 22 the creation of a task force following the inadvertent leak of more than 18,000 students’ social security numbers.
The day before the Board of Visitors began its August retreat to review strategic planning initiatives, Student Council sent Board members a letter outlining Council’s priorities and concerns for the University community. The eight-page document detailed the five areas Council considers most crucial for the University moving forward: financial aid programs, racial diversity among the student body, student representation on the Board, leadership transparency and revamping technological infrastructure. Jalen Ross, Council’s director of university relations, said the letter was a collaborative effort between Council leadership.
The scene seemed to be lifted directly from the hit comedy “Dodgeball,” when Ben Stiller’s character White Goodman appears to knock out Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn) to win the Las Vegas dodgeball tournament.
After playing in 10 games as a true freshman in 2011, David Watford was relegated to the sidelines in 2012, forced to listen through a headset as his team stumbled to a disappointing 4-8 finish.
After turning a Virginia football team that suffered three consecutive losing seasons into a bowl-eligible 8-5 team in just his second year on Grounds, coach Mike London seemed primed to push his success even further in 2012.
As first-year students move into their dorms this weekend, they bring to Grounds more than 3,000 Wahoos who represent the University’s standard caliber of academic achievement and a geographically and racially diverse crowd. The Class of 2017 averages an SAT math and verbal score of 1349, keeping close with the Class of 2016’s 1350.
Jefferson the man was more complex. Sandy-haired and gangly, fearful of public speaking, Jefferson was, like many gifted people, consistently inconsistent. Pick a quote from his voluminous correspondence. What he says in one letter he will contradict in another.
The legendary Crozet Pizza has found a new home at the Buddhist Biker Bar on Elliewood Avenue, taking the place of outdoor restaurant and bar The Backyard.
Start looking under the couch for loose change Wahoos, because fall is here and the Charlottesville concert scene is booming.
Newcomb Hall and O-Hill may not serve pumpkin juice, but students from first to fourth year will soon be packing into these buildings for feasts aplenty. New students will have a few days to get themselves situated, and then they—and all of us returners—will be heading to class. And while the University does not feature the winding staircases and secret passageways that crisscross Hogwarts, first years will still take a wrong turn here and there. I remember trying to figure out the numbering system for rooms in New Cabell my first year and thinking frantically that I could not be late for my first class in college.
University President Teresa Sullivan named Dr. Richard Shannon the Executive Vice-President for Health Affairs earlier this month. Shannon will begin officially as EVP on November 1, though he will begin commuting to Charlottesville on September 1.
At a time when college costs are rising and economic uncertainty poses additional challenges to already low-income families, the Board of Visitors’ decision to scale back AccessUVA for the University’s most needy students is—at best—a step in the wrong direction. At worst, it threatens to put an end to the program’s loftiest goals, as envisioned by the late Dean of Admissions John Blackburn and former University President John T. Casteen III.
President Sullivan joins close to 200 university presidents in a renewed effort to stop Congress from cutting education funding, funding which is critical to closing the “innovation gap” between the U.S. and foreign nations.
