When students last led a Living Wage Campaign at the University, a standoff between campaign supporters and administrators ensued, culminating when 17 student protesters were removed from a Madison Hall sit-in in handcuffs.
President John T. Casteen, III was the third highest-paid public University president in the country last year, according to a recent report by the Chronicle of Higher Education.Despite the struggling economy, Casteen?s almost $800,000 salary will be the same next year, University spokesperson Carol Wood said, explaining that despite decreases in commonwealth funding imposed by Gov.
A month after Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (D) announced budget cuts for state universities, University deans are still finalizing how budget cuts will affect professors, departments and students on Grounds.
For many students at Radford University in Southwest Virginia, the burning question isn?t who will win today?s election ? it?s whether students formerly denied registration will have a say at the polls.The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law have charged in a letter to Tracy Howard, general registrar of voters for the City of Radford, that he implemented ?unlawful and potentially discriminatory policies? in administering students? registration in the City of Radford and are asking Howard to make every effort to ensure all eligible student voters are able to cast ballots today.Howard has come under fire for his decision to follow up with students who registered in Radford with their college addresses and ask that they clarify in writing what they considered to be their permanent address.
College loans: $10,000. LSAT Prep Class: $1,000. Gas guzzled on long drives to job interviews: $500.
After nearly 25 years as the University of Virginia's head gatekeeper, John Blackburn, dean of undergraduate admissions, will retire at the end of the 2008-09 academic year. Yet, when he was a student attending Western Maryland College, Blackburn never thought he would spend nearly his entire working life in an undergraduate environment. "When I was in college, I didn't even think of jobs in college [aside from faculty positions] as real work," Blackburn said.
Current undergraduate admissions numbers indicate that the University is achieving its goal of attracting more low-income students.
As many high school seniors contemplate their options for higher education at the end of an arduous college application process, for some, the real work has just begun.
The recent expulsion of a creative writing student at the University's College at Wise underscores the efforts of students and professors to pursue their creative work while negotiating the fine line between freedom of expression and protection of community members' safety. Steven Daniel Barber, a 23-year-old former student at Wise, was expelled from the school last week after a story he wrote for a creative writing class alarmed fellow classmates and his professor, and three guns were found in his car in violation of Wise policy. Barber's story was written in the first person, he said, and portrayed a narrator who, concerned for his own safety after the massacre at Virginia Tech, slept with a gun under his pillow and contemplated killing his professor and committing suicide. Barber said the project, assigned by Wise Asst.
As students finalize living arrangements for the 2007-2008 academic year, those staying on Grounds can anticipate a significant increase in the cost of housing -- on average, University housing tenants will see a 9.6 percent hike in price. The Board of Visitors Finance Committee recently approved the new student housing rates, which will cause students living in Brown College, the IRC and Gooch/Dillard to pay more than $4,000 for housing next year. According to Richard Kovatch, assistant vice president for business operations, housing funds will support various housing costs and University projects. "The increase is needed twofold, to cover [the] housing division's operating costs, including personnel, debt service, the debt we have to pay on our existing facilities, and to contribute to our replacement and renewal reserves, the funds we use to make improvements on facilities," Kovatch said. Approximately half of the increase in housing costs will go to this housing improvement fund.
