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News Roundup

Association of American Universities Launches New Initiative For PhD Programs

Doctoral students may feel like going into academia is the only path forward, but a new initiative aims to change that. The Association of American Universities launched a PhD Education Initiative, which seeks to create a more student-centered culture for doctoral education, support diverse career paths and promote greater inclusion at its member institutions. During […]

September 13, 2019

News Roundup

UVA Extends Financial Aid to In-State DACA Students

University of Virginia is now extending financial aid benefits to in-state students from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program (DACA).

August 6, 2019

News Roundup

UVA’s School of Engineering Recognized for Diversity Progress

The University of Virginia (UVA) School of Engineering received the bronze award from the American Society for Engineering Education’s Diversity Recognition Program. ASEE recognizes engineering and engineering technology colleges that have made headway in increasing diversity, inclusion and degree attainment within their programs. UVA was one of 220 universities that signed the ASEE Deans Diversity […]

August 2, 2019

News Roundup

Virginia Universities Team to Fight Opioid Epidemic

Five universities in Virginia have come together in a consortium to help fight the opioid epidemic, the Associated Press reports. Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia and Old Dominion, George Mason and Virginia State universities have partnered with the commonwealth’s Department of Behavioral Health and Development Services to support prevention and treatment programs and to […]

July 17, 2019

Latest News

James Madison University Sets $12 Minimum Wage

James Madison University has adopted a living wage for its full-time employees, setting a $12 per-hour wage. A total of 109 employees who were earning less than $24,960 per year had their wages adjusted to meet the living wage standard.

July 8, 2019

News Roundup

McDonald Named Diversity VP at UVA

Dr. Kevin McDonald, vice chancellor of inclusion, diversity and equity at the University of Missouri and the chief diversity officer for the University of Missouri System, will become the University of Virginia’s vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion Aug. 1. McDonald, whose salary will be $340,000, said he looks forward to recruiting and engaging […]

May 1, 2019

Latest News

Research Survey: Universities Highly Intentional About Community Engagement

A survey of 100 urban universities across America revealed that the overwhelming majority offer community-engaged coursework and have centralized offices dedicated to partnerships with their communities.

April 24, 2019

Students

Yes Virginia, There is a Choice

Like many other students of color who receive messages that they’re not good enough, I had resigned myself to believing that I was either unready or unprepared for college. As a first-generation student, I couldn’t rely on legacy status to give me a leg up in the admissions process and my family certainly couldn’t rely on making donations to athletic booster clubs or local alumni groups.

April 16, 2019

Opinion

The Myth of Meritocracy

To my high school guidance counselor, I wasn’t college material. I remember flipping through the dusty pages of the massive dictionary in the school library to find the definition of the word meritocracy: “the holding of power by people selected based on their ability.” I needed to understand why she repeated that word to me and some of my classmates to limit our options.

March 13, 2019

Students

Sorority Life as an Act of Resistance

My expectations of life as a Black, college student in the 90’s were largely shaped by a TV show called “A Different World.” The show was set on the campus of the fictional Hillman College in Virginia. For the first time I saw a group of students on television who looked like me and whose background mirrored my own.

January 14, 2019

African-American

ROTC Programs Bring Access to Education and Careers for HBCU Students

The revival of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program at LeMoyne-Owen College in Tennessee makes the Memphis-based school one of several historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the country that offers students an education and military training to become a commissioned officer in the United States armed forces.

September 12, 2018

News Roundup

UVA Center Hires Trump Ex-Official, Many Faculty Disapprove

Dozens of University of Virginia professors are outraged at the university’s decision to hire a former member of the Trump administration, according to an NBC-29 news report in Charlottesville, Va. Marc Short, a former White House director of legislative affairs who has an MBA from UVA, has been hired as a senior fellow at the […]

July 23, 2018