Unfortunately, this negative press is fully the fault of U.Va. Health — it failed to address significant stakeholder concerns when crafting its justification.
By pigeonholing students into commerce so early, the University violates its own mission of providing a holistic education that produces students capable of succeeding in a variety of fields.
The decisions of HRL neither reflect the preferences of residents nor appear to be made of sound reasoning.
Housing and a meal plan are not payments so much as the bare minimum for RAs to exist at all.
To be sure, this is not a problem of the University’s making. Nevertheless, understanding the uncertainty of financial accessibility in education, the University must step up to the plate.
The University must rethink its approach to education beyond traditional major-specific requirements and mandate personal development courses.
After all, measuring the University’s worth in terms of accrued capital, operational efficiency and numerical rankings molds this space into just another cookie-cutter institution.
Every student at the University, regardless of their primary field of study, can professionally and academically benefit from engaging with the English department.
The most obvious and necessary remedy for HRL going forward is coincidentally one of the greatest tools on any Resident Staff across Grounds — communication.
Standardization is an important idea in a school to make grading as fair as possible — all inconsistencies in teaching assistants or exam writing are ironed out.
Addiction crises should be understood as communal, rather than individual.
At the end of our term, we thought it fitting to share with you which of our 28 editorials have been our favorites.
It is crucial for us to reevaluate our personal reliance on AI and begin understanding how it acts as a problematic shortcut.
With the long history of student complaints regarding advising in the College, it is commendable that the University administration is committed to responding to student concerns and prioritizing student academic well-being.
For the sake of students — and the Governor — his state administration should rethink its stance on this meeting and its approach to interacting with students more broadly.
