Public funding for state colleges increased slightly over the past year, according to the Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University’s annual Grapevine report, released yesterday.
The University of Virginia School of Nursing and “Hoo’s Well,” the University’s comprehensive wellness program, have teamed up for the second time to present the “‘Hoos Kicking It?” program.
The Cavalier Daily, the University of Virginia’s independent student newspaper, is launching a five-week campaign to raise funds for new distribution boxes.
Tuesday, The Cavalier Daily kicks off a five-week campaign to raise money for new distribution boxes. We hope to raise $8,000 to purchase 75 distribution boxes to place around Grounds and Charlottesville.
North Carolina kept the game close for the opening 15 minutes, but the Virginia men’s basketball team ended the first half on a 12-2 run and never looked back.
Monday’s win for the Virginia men’s basketball team was utterly workmanlike. The Cavaliers’ opponent never truly troubled them in the second half, and looking up and down the score sheet, there was no clear star—just a coordinated, complete win.
By rejoining these two Martin Luther King Jr.’s — the integrationist of 1963 and the radical democratic socialist of 1968 — we challenge ourselves to recognize the extent that our national hero’s famous “dream” remains unfulfilled.
Many students may not be aware of the dedicated group of individuals who work to create the atmosphere that permeates throughout John Paul Jones arena on a home basketball game night.
While we’re glad Obama is devoting attention to college affordability, efforts to attract high-achieving low-income students cannot move in fits and starts. An adjustment in rankings methodology would make it a matter of self-interest for colleges to do more for low-income students.
Without being sensationalist, I would argue that the racist graffiti outside of Elson Student Health Center is indicative of a larger problem with assumptions and prejudices about race at the University, and it should have been given much more attention from both the local media and the University administrators than it was.
After a few minutes of discussion Sunday night, the Honor Committee voted 22-0 to change its meeting schedule to better engage Committee members in discussion about key projects. The vote reflects an internal Committee change, rather than a bylaw reform. Starting next week, the Committee will meet as a whole every other week and meet in working groups during intervening weeks. The decision to propose the change came out of Honoe Executive Committee discussions at the end of last semester.
After 20 years of business, the Student Book Store on the Corner will be closing this semester. Competition from online vendors has forced the bookstore to shut its doors, manager John Kelm said.
For the fourth time in five games, the Virginia men’s basketball blazed out to a fast start against a conference opponent, piling on early against Florida State.
University President Teresa Sullivan attended a conference of college and university presidents at the White House today to discuss expanding access to higher education.
Charlottesville Area Transit announced this week that it will add new, hybrid buses to its fleet this April. The project is part the strategic plan called P3 — Plan, Perform, Perfect.
The Virginia women’s basketball team suffered its most comprehensive defeat of the year Thursday, falling to No.
She has 80 names and 30 addresses, and she’s cashing out on 12 Social Security cards and veterans’ benefits from nonexistent dead husbands. She has Medicaid, food stamps, nine children and she’s raking in welfare money under each name.
The Rotunda will be closed during Final Exercises 2015, University officials confirmed at a meeting Thursday in the Rotunda Lower West Oval Room.
Virginia Delegate David Toscano (D-Charlottesville) introduced two bills on Jan. 8 intended to regulate the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Agency (ABC) in response to the actions of several agents in an altercation with then second year University student Elizabeth Daly on April 11. The undercover ABC officers mistook a case of water in the backseat of Daly’s car to be a case of beer and drew weapons, jumped on the hood of the car, and attempted to break the car’s windows.
The ideological balance of power in the state Senate hangs in the balance as a special election to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Mark Herring, a Democrat, is fast approaching.
