Professor Larry Sabato tweeted Monday that the current Board of Visitors "has done more damage to the University I love than the 1895 Rotunda fire." Buildings can be rebuilt, traditions can be restored, funding recouped and rankings reestablished.
All money comes with strings attached; the strings of money itself. You can feel the value of a dollar; not truth, or justice, whose values are known and seldom felt, perhaps not even by Jefferson.
A Confused Hoo For the past two weeks, the development on presidency of the University of Virginia has surprised many of us.
The University community departs in summer but returns for the fall � not, however, President Teresa Sullivan, who will resign August 15. The “mutually agreed” decision for Sullivan to resign was announced Sunday morning in a University-wide email distributed by the Board of Visitors.
Note: Due to an editorial error, this article was mistakenly printed in the Life Section of the April 25th Cavalier Daily under a different byline.
The 1,500 students at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) are all ROTC cadets but there are not enough majors across disciplines.
Following the Living Wage Campaign's hunger strike, Michael Strine, University executive vice president and chief operative officer, emailed the University community making a number of promises.
Affirmative action is perhaps one of the strongest and most controversial measures taken by the government to fight discrimination and increase representation of minority groups in education and the workplace.
When I say Iran is the most dangerous country in the world, many think I am trying to beat a war drum.
The University of Florida announced last week it would make significant cuts to its computer science program.
In a time when the federal budget is never far from the front page of the news, there is one federal agency which is far underappreciated, and often the object of entirely undeserved spite: NASA.
The University is a top-tier institution of higher education, and its students no doubt benefit from the many excellent instructors here.
During an election, it can sometimes seem as if nothing is more important than the victory of one's preferred candidate.
The amount of time the student body may collectively spend on an honor educational tutorial and assessment, which all University students could have to do this fall, will likely exceed the duration of the Honor Committee's meetings spent discussing it.
As my first year at the University heads into its final weeks, I have started to look back at the opportunities I did or did not take advantage of.
Since last Wednesday, students at the University and other institutions across the nation have been mourning the death of 19-year-old Zachary Brunt.
In recent months, President Obama and administration officials have dashed across the nation trumpeting the two-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare - a title the administration has embraced as of late.
Gonzaga University faces another test after finals and before its class graduates. The school, a private university affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, has drawn criticism from students, faculty, alumni and others for having invited Desmond Tutu to speak at its commencement.
For anyone looking for challenging, worthwhile courses to take next year, I invite you to consider the German department. Why learn German?
I am not a fan of endings. And, here, there's no disguising it: Final Exercises, or, in layman's terms, graduation is right around the corner and, for me, an end to seven years of higher education.
