The Organization of Young Filipino Americans held vigil on the Rotunda steps Friday evening for victims of typhoon Haiyan, which recently devastated the Philippines. The storm hit last Thursday, killing a confirmed 3,600 and displacing nearly 700,000 others.
I am en route to San Francisco for a job interview, sifting through the pages of “The Defining Decade” by Meg Jay.
Stepping up to the podium, fourth-year College student Arni Mapili turns to face a crowd of about 70.
The Virginia men’s soccer team stumbled late against longtime rival Maryland in the ACC Championship game Sunday, losing 1-0 in Germantown, Md.
The No. 7 Virginia field hockey team fell to No. 10 Massachusetts in overtime Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, ending its season. The Minutewomen did not lead at all during regulation, but they found an equalizer in the final minutes and scored a golden goal in the first overtime period to eliminate the Cavaliers.
The Special Committee on Strategic Planning met with the full Board of Visitors Friday to discuss the upcoming generational shift among the University’s faculty and the need to adopt a new hiring plan to focus efforts on new faculty hires.
In response to the recent cuts to AccessUVA, the University’s financial aid program, students stood together in silent protest on Friday afternoon to get the attention of the Board of Visitors. Students wore signs stating what AccessUVA means to them as well as duck tape covering their mouths that read “Access Denied.”
A $130 million College of Arts and Sciences campaign is expected to begin soon, as University administrators anticipate a professoriate overhaul over the next five-to-seven years.
After dropping its first game of the season one week ago against in-state rival Virginia Tech, the top-seeded Virginia women’s soccer team got back to its winning ways Friday, trouncing Saint Francis in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, 5-0.
The University announced Thursday that Ray Mabus, the United States secretary of the Navy, will deliver the Commencement address at Final Exercises in May.
Legislation that ensures nationwide marriage equality is not a cure-all for the injustices and inequalities associated with sexual orientation.
The Board of Visitors gathers Friday in the Rotunda for another round of meetings. Of the items on the Board’s docket, two stand out: a meeting of the special committee on diversity, and a full Board meeting on the University’s strategic plan.
Finance was the topic of the hour at the Board of Visitors’ Strategic Planning Committee meeting Thursday afternoon. As University President Teresa Sullivan and the rest of the University administration sought the Board’s approval of their strategic vision, several committee members questioned the plan’s vague price tag. “If we approve [the plan], aren’t we just setting up contention at later meetings year after year?” Board member Frank Genovese said.
The Board of Visitors’ Education Policy Committee met Thursday afternoon to discuss a new University mission statement and the future of the school’s global presence. President Teresa Sullivan approached the Faculty Senate earlier this year about revising the current mission statement, which was developed by the Faculty Senate and approved by the Board in 1985.
For most first- and second-years, the long trek to Bryant Hall to visit the University Career Services office may be an unfamiliar one.
The University is currently testing a new activity-based budgeting model intended to change the way schools and departments receive funding.
In discussions of the University’s finances, one word constantly crops up: the endowment. But an endowment is nothing if managed poorly — the University can credit a large portion of its endowment’s size and comparatively high growth rate to the University of Virginia Investment Management Company (UVIMCO), the non-stock corporation that manages the University’s investments. UVIMCO is administered by a Board of Directors, three of whom are specifically selected by the Board of Visitors and one whom is selected by the University President.
University partnerships with outside scholarship agencies have long strived to make the University more affordable for prospective low-income students, offering an entryway outside of the realm of University aid programs such as AccessUVa.
After an uncharacteristically tight race between Virginia State Senators Mark Obenshain, R-Harrisonburg, and Mark Herring, D-Loudoun, unofficial results posted by the Virginia State Board of Elections show that Herring currently leads the polls by a mere 164 votes more than a week after the Nov.
This tension — between, on the one hand, the presence of wealth, and, on the other hand, the desire to serve as a school for the public, a stepping-stone for the talented and disadvantaged — will play out at the University for the foreseeable future. For this reason, interest in AccessUVa — much like the interest on the loans low-income students will now be obliged to take out — will continue to accrue.
