The original budget for the memorial was $6 million, but after contractors estimated the project would cost at least $7 million, the budget was raised to match the updated figure.
Wage employees are not eligible for paid family leave, but can receive unpaid job-protected absence for 12 weeks.
The University has not changed its academic operating schedule as of Tuesday evening.
Reflecting on the efforts of the Deans Working Group a year after its formation
The University has settled with Betsy Ackerson, according to court records.
University President Jim Ryan and Medical School alumna Dr. Vivian Pinn were among the speakers at Sunday’s event.
The President’s Commission on Slavery and the University released its cumulative report in late July.
Heaphy led an independent review that described the University Police Department's response to the white supremacist torchlit march at U.Va. as "woefully inadequate."
With the fall semester looming, some students question their financial ability to return to U.Va.
“We do nothing more than recognize our common humanity to say to those who were attacked around the statue last year: I am sorry,” Ryan said Saturday. “We are sorry.”
Metal detectors and crowd size limits will be among the security measures imposed Saturday night on a planned demonstration by student activism group U.Va. Students United at the North Plaza of the Rotunda.
The heightened police presence on and around Grounds has been a cause for alarm among some students, particularly within minority communities.
The announcement marks the University's first appointments of a female provost and chief operating officer.
Ryan said his approach to the presidency would be driven by a commitment to serve others — at the University and beyond.
The term “legacy,” as used by the Office of Admission, refers to children or live-in stepchildren of University alumni.
Outgoing President Teresa Sullivan and Provost Thomas Katsouleas recently sent a message to two University faculty members to respond to their petition.
The June 8 board meeting was Sullivan’s last one as president of the University.
The lawsuit claims, among other things, that hospital staff took blood and urine samples against a patient's will and without her consent.
The Deans Working Group has presented a final report from the Advisory Committee on the Future of the Historic Landscape at the University to President Teresa Sullivan.
About 3,700 students are expected to be enrolled at the University this fall, which will be U.Va.’s largest class ever.
