Although the current economic recession is affecting the City of Charlottesville, Mayor Dave Norris said that in many ways the city is better off than many other localities in the commonwealth heading into next year.
Both the Honor Committee and the University Judiciary Committee chairs are pleased with the progress their organizations have made this semester and are already looking ahead to the spring semester.UJC passed a bylaw this semester defining professionalism for its support officers and outlining specific violations of professionalism.?I think these professionalism standards are so important because it?s [now] transparent to our support officers what standards we do hold them to,? UJC Chair Merriam Mikhail said.Addressing a concern of UJC members and students alike, Mikhail said she believes the committee also was able to increase its transparency this year by releasing a variety of statistics at the beginning of the semester that showed exactly which standards of conduct had been most violated during the spring semester.
Douglas Emory Loyd, a University Information Technology and Communication faculty technical advocate for the Law School, was arrested Wednesday morning by the Stafford County Sheriff?s Office.
A bicyclist traveling eastbound on McCormick Road struck a vehicle Wednesday night and had to be transported to the University Medical Center, according to a University Police Department press release.
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Throughout the fall semester, Student Council developed a number of initiatives and projects seeking to improve the University community, and Council aims to continue such efforts next year.
A study released Dec. 3 by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education shows that higher education in the commonwealth of Virginia, as well as in the United States as a whole, needs to improve efforts to provide affordable education to remain competitive internationally.Stacey Zis, research associate with the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems and co-author of the study, said the study, ?Measuring Up 2008,? is intended to be a national report card for higher education.The center releases a report on higher education in the United States as a whole, Zis said, as well as a report for each individual state.
Students on their way to class yesterday found the McCormick Road pedestrian crosswalk on Monroe Hill blocked off by University Police and Charlottesville Fire Department vehicles.
The Charlottesville Area Community Foundation is partnering with University students to develop Charlottesville?s first apartment building specifically for the city?s homeless community.
The University?s chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers was named an outstanding student chapter for 2008 by the nationwide organization.?Every year our student chapters committee awards recognition to a handful of student chapters based on their level of participation,? explained Gordon Ellis, head of student awards at AIChE, an organization that aims to advance the practice and theory of chemical engineering.
Fourth-year Commerce student Miloni Shah can see the Taj Hotel from the window of her home in Mumbai, India.
President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D), a 1983 Law School graduate, will serve as secretary of Homeland Security in his administration.
In its final meeting of the fall semester last night, Student Council heard appropriations appeals from two University student organizations: the Virginia Rowing Association and Mock Trial.
The Inter-Sorority Council elected its new executive board Monday night.
The University?s Parking and Transportation Committee is currently considering an initiative proposed by Student Council that would provide free late-night parking for students in the Central Grounds Parking Garage near Newcomb Hall.The initiative, headed by Council?s Safety and Wellness Committee, proposes providing free parking for students from 10 p.m.
Charlottesville City Council members heard the first of two readings regarding year-end appropriations for the 2008 fiscal year yesterday, as local leaders prepare to begin 2009 budget talks.
University Architecture students involved in a neighborhood planning course gave a presentation yesterday about foreclosure and property decay to representatives from the City of Charlottesville, Piedmont Housing Alliance and other local organizations.Second-year Architecture graduate student Adam Lovelady said the project, whose participants are all affiliated with the Architecture School?s urban and environmental planning department, was divided into four themes, each of which involved a different group of students: ?Identifying Priority Areas,? ?Correlating Blight and Prevention,? ?Forecasting Foreclosures? and ?Increasing Financial Literacy.?In discussing the methods used for the project?s data collection and analysis, fourth-year Architecture student Laura Hammett, who is also a Cavalier Daily production editor, noted that the initial data on foreclosures were collected from foreclosures.com, Piedmont Housing Alliance?s foreclosure data and The Daily Progress newspaper.
The nation?s current economic woes will affect the number but not the variety of jobs available in Virginia, according to the most recent ?Stat Chat? by the University?s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.The most recent edition of the Stat Chat, which outlines Virginia?s population and workforce statistics three times per year, also noted that despite a shrinking job market ?employment in Virginia will continue to span a broad range of occupations and will require education at all levels.?The study used data published by the Virginia Workforce Connection, the Virginia Employment Commission, the U.S.
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The University officially launched its U.Va. Today Daily Report yesterday, University spokesperson Carol Wood said, noting that the new electronic daily newsletter seeks to better deliver and ?push? University-related news, updates and headlines into the hands of students, faculty and staff.An e-mail announcing the launch sent by Leonard Sandridge, University executive vice president and chief operating officer, stated that people signed up to receive the newsletter ?will receive top stories about University staff, faculty and students, calendar items and general information about what?s happening.? Links to other media outlets and University blogs will also be included, the e-mail stated.Wood said the report is an outgrowth of the current U.Va.
