Taking the credit
By Managing Board | October 23, 2012The revocation of the University’s accreditation would not be a well-tailored response to the events of the summer.
The revocation of the University’s accreditation would not be a well-tailored response to the events of the summer.
President Barack Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney faced off Monday evening in the third and final debate of 2012 election season to talk foreign policy.
Low-income Virginia residents suffering from HIV/AIDS no longer have to wait for their medication. Additional funding from the General Assembly helped the state’s AIDS drug assistance program (ADAP) reduce its waiting list — which peaked at 1,112 people last December — to zero at the end of August.
Internet platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are not just social tools anymore, a survey released Friday indicates.
Robert J. Misch proved why wines “always make my friends more interesting” in a lecture Tuesday evening in Alumni Hall.
Because I refuse to give Comcast any more business than it deserves — which is negative 800 billion customers, in case you were wondering — and because “Arrested Development” and “Breaking Bad” are on Netflix, I do not watch television at school.
Before facing No. 25 Wake Forest Saturday, the No. 5 Virginia field hockey team donned matching teal shirts with pink lettering to raise awareness for ovarian and breast cancer.
The Virginia volleyball team has finally found its first ACC win this season. After falling to Duke Friday, the Cavaliers bounced back the following evening to defeat Wake Forest and notch their first conference victory of the season. “I’m happy for the girls,” coach Dennis Hohenshelt said.
The Virginia men’s golf team saved its best play for last, closing its fall season with a fourth-place finish at the U.S.
Bruce Springsteen is set to perform a free concert Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion in support of the Barack Obama campaign. The Obama for America-hosted-event is part of the campaign’s effort to turn out voters across Virginia. “I’m here today because for thirty years I’ve been writing about the distance between the American dream and the American reality,” Springsteen said during a recent appearance in Iowa.
In an effort to address concerns about a lack of transparency that arose during the forced resignation of University President Teresa Sullivan, the Board of Visitors amended its voting procedures and committee structures in a Friday meeting.
Virginia Health Commissioner Karen Remley abruptly resigned from her position Thursday citing the controversial abortion clinic regulations passed this year as her impetus. The Virginia Board of Health passed regulations in June that classify abortion clinics as hospitals, requiring them to abide by the same architectural standards.
The issue of voter fraud resurfaced last week when Rockingham County resident Colin Small was arrested for attempting to dispose of completed voter registration forms. Small, a voter registration supervisor, worked for an independent private organization that the Republican Party of Virginia contracted to conduct voter registration. “The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office… made an arrest in the investigation of voter registration fraud that began on the afternoon of Oct.
On one characteristically cringe-inducing play in the third quarter of Saturday’s deflating 16-10 loss to Wake Forest, sophomore cornerback Drequan Hoskey whiffed on an open field tackle.
The Virginia men’s soccer team rallied back from a seemingly insurmountable second-half deficit to earn a dramatic 3-2 overtime victory against Virginia Tech Friday. The Cavaliers (8-6-1, 2-4 ACC) found themselves in a two-goal hole when freshman forward Kai Marshall tapped in his first collegiate score in the 56th minute to give Virginia Tech a 2-0 lead.
The Demon Deacons (4-3, 2-3 ACC) snapped a two-game losing streak by winning for just the second time in their last 13 games in Charlottesville, handing the Cavaliers (2-6, 0-3 ACC) their sixth straight defeat Saturday, 16-10.
The University announced Friday morning that Patrick D. Hogan would fill the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Office.
Dr. Sergei Khrushchev, the son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and a senior fellow at Brown University, spoke on a panel Thursday evening about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
A recent paper released by a University of Richmond associate professor concluded media coverage and recent education policy proposals miss the larger picture of rising college costs.
Two-thirds of graduates from the class of 2011 reported a five percent increase in student-loan debt, totaling an average of $26,500 upon graduation, according to a study released Thursday by the Institute for College Access and Success. Perpetually increasing pricetags are a contemporary hallmark of higher education across the nation, with the University’s out-of-state tuition per semester having risen about $10,000 in the past decade. The report’s findings detailed slight decreases in debt, however, for those who graduate from Virginia colleges, with a total amount of about $24,000 upon graduation.