A recent New York Times article recounts the story of a college applicant whose explicit and offensive tweets were noticed by the college admissions officers at the school to which she was applying.
The No. 1 women’s soccer team and the No. 4 field hockey team each earned at-large bids to their respective NCAA tournaments.
After going all of last year unranked, the No. 25 Virginia men’s basketball team will enter their matchup against No. 14 Virginia Commonwealth University looking to make an early season statement.
Why does it matter what words we use to talk about higher education? Because the terms we employ often stack the deck one way or the other. It is hard to argue against what you perceive as the corporatization of the academy if you are compelled to speak in corporate language.
On Friday night, Reddit co-founder and 2005 University graduate Alexis Ohanian came to discuss his new book and speak with students. Around 250 interested students crowded a Rouss Hall auditorium, some even spilling into the overflow room where a live feed was displayed, to hear Ohanian’s speech.
This month the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences began the process of formulating its budget proposal for the 2014-2015 budget year. During the next few months the College will work to organize its proposal before submitting it to the University in February.
A new report from the Council of Graduate Schools said there was a 30 percent increase in offers of admission to Indian students and a decrease in growth rates of first time enrollment and admissions offers to Chinese students. Trella said the University has seen a steady increase from 8 percent in 2012 to 10 percent in 2013 of Chinese students. Trella attributed the constant growth to the University’s recruitment efforts in China.
Virginia (2-8, 0-6 ACC) entered Saturday’s contest against North Carolina (4-5, 3-3 ACC) searching for answers. Instead, the Cavaliers suffered another blowout loss to extend its losing streak to seven games, the program’s longest single-season skid since 1981.
In his first game since missing all of last season with a foot injury, redshirt sophomore guard Malcolm Brogdon finished with nine points on 3-of-4 3-point shooting to lead Virginia to a season opening 61-41 win against James Madison Friday night.
The top-ranked Virginia women’s soccer team suffered its first defeat of the season Friday in the semifinal round of the ACC tournament against rival Virginia Tech, 4-2.
Commerce School Assoc. Dean Michael Morris was arrested and charged with distribution of child pornography by the FBI Wednesday morning.
I don’t care if you’re an Echols scholar. I don’t care if you got a great writing SAT score, and I don’t care if you got a 5 on your AP English Language exam. There should be no exemptions from the first writing requirement.
The University will complete a core network upgrade in December as part of the its newly-established Big Data Institute, allowing significantly more network speed to enhance both higher research initiatives and everyday student life.
University officials announced Monday plans to bring global research to the forefront of the University with the creation of the Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation, to be directed by History Prof. Brian Owensby.
Participation in study abroad programs by University students remains far higher for January term and summer programs than semester or year-long programs.
For University professors and administrators to take the intrinsic-value argument seriously, for them to make it forcefully to external parties, would mean that they would be asserting another claim at the same time. They would be insisting that the purpose of college is more than just job preparation. They would be saying that college is something more: it is about creating people who can make a life, not just make a living.
After a 73-68 win against then-No. 3 Duke in front of a raucous crowd at John Paul Jones, it appeared that the Virginia men’s basketball team could make an ACC and even NCAA Tournament run behind the hot hand of then-junior guard Joe Harris and the steady post presence of then-junior forward Akil Mitchell. Instead, the Cavaliers were stood up for the Big Dance after dropping two of their final three games to close the regular season and getting thrashed by N.C.
When Virginia women’s basketball coach Joanne Boyle arrived in Charlottesville in April 2011, she inherited leadership of a program guided for the previous 34 years by the beloved Debbie Ryan.
**Last March, Virginia got thumped by a disappointment. N.C. State had entered the 2012-13 campaign as the first consensus ACC favorite not hailing from Tobacco Road since roughly the Paleolithic Age.
The humanities exist, and will continue to exist, because we are human. Because we exist not to build bigger buildings and computers that are more powerful but just to be: to be happy, sad, angry, wistful, passionate, horrified, winners, losers, friends, lovers, parents, leaders, followers. Does it matter that the humanities serve no practical purpose, if they give pleasure? I don’t think so. Do you?
