University to host nearly 2,400 family members for Family Weekend 2024
By Cecilia Mould | October 25, 2024Around 2,400 parents are registered to attend this year's Family Weekend, according to University spokesperson Bethanie Glover.
Around 2,400 parents are registered to attend this year's Family Weekend, according to University spokesperson Bethanie Glover.
The event brought in a series of guest speakers ranging from University professors to founders of anti-discrimination organizations in two speaker panels.
The Karsh Institute is a University organization founded 2021 with the stated purpose of confronting challenges to democracy through interdisciplinary scholarship and programming.
The UBE will be conducting an internal review of the 2024 New Student Election.
Sunday’s meeting marked the first of the Committee’s voting days — where proposed bylaw changes would only be voted on on set dates.
The duo defeated their respective opponents by a combined 815 votes.
Provost Ian Baucom also took questions on the University’s response to the events of May 4 from faculty.
Only 40 years ago, students could join the Skydiving Club, where they could drive to Orange County Airport and take a leap from an airplane.
At the event, Weiss said that the United States is facing an epidemic of “cowardness.”
This is the first safety advisory of October.
A Food Access Atlas curated by the Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service marked some areas around Grounds as “low-income and low-access using vehicle access.”
In the new advising framework, every first-year student will be assigned to an advisor teaching their first quarter Engagement class.
Students gathered at the amphitheater and the Lawn to encourage the University to divest holdings in businesses that have ties to South Africa's apartheid government.
The event was hosted by the Futures Initiative, a program launched January of this year to anticipate social and technological changes that will impact the University.
State Senator Aaron Rouse said that the Virginia State legislature isn’t always effective, but is much more friendly and cordial than people think.
Travis said that his bill could serve as a catalyst for the Student Council to engage in relief efforts for a disaster that has affected many within the University community.
Both partisan and nonpartisan groups are engaging with students and Charlottesville residents to register them to vote prior to the Oct. 15 deadline in Virginia.
The change would allow the Counsel for the Community to outline their arguments for which sanctions should be employed.
Despite these numerous on-Grounds options, almost two-thirds of students live off-Grounds according to the U.S. News and World Report.
The University Guide Service, established by Mary Betts in the 1950s, had become a prestigious and competitive organization by 1984, accepting only 8% of applicants each year.