Judge hears arguments in Bowers case
Fifteen minutes before a 1pm hearing in Dena Bowers’ $1 million wrongful firing lawsuit, UVA administrators and their attorneys were downright giggly. Chief Financial Officer Yoke San Reynolds and UVA
Parents busted for child abuse
Two Augusta County teenage girls, ages 15 and 16, have been removed from their father and stepmother’s custody. Those guardians, Steven Tomlin, 35, and Heather Tomlin, 27, have been charged with two counts of cruelty and injury to a child. According to Augusta police investigator Paul McCormick, police received a call from a school friend […]
Legislature fights crime
In general, the State of Virginia is known for dealing with criminals, shall we say…effectively. During this last General Assembly session (www.legis.state.va.us), lawmakers did find a few ways to make our streets a little safer and would-be felons even more jittery. Here, four passed bills that will help the state fight crime. Albemarle Delegate Rob […]
Assembly’s commendable bills
Assembly’s commendable bills157 measures devoted to devotion A new website that tracks the goings-on of the Virginia General Assembly, www.richmondsunlight.com, is a wonk’s dream, and thusly, our new favorite thing (cheers to website creator, Waldo Jaquith). The site’s best feature? The “Tag Cloud” that lists topics by size, relative to their prominence in this session’s […]
Opening the door
By some measures, UVA is pretty affordable. The elite state school that benchmarks itself against privates like Cornell, Stanford and Duke still offers a price tag that’s truer to its public school mandate: about $17,700 a year for in-state students and more than $35,600 for out-of-staters.
"Part church and part car dealer"
March is high season for college admissions offices. The applications are in and deans are juggling: athletes, quiz show champs, active volunteers, math whizzes, minorities, kids with disabilities, kids who’ve composed symphonies, kids with perfect SAT scores—sometimes all of these things at once—all vying to get into a top school. Apparently, many factors go into […]
Read on
Volumes have been written on equality and higher ed. Here’s a short list: Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education, by William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin. Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education, by Peter Sacks, due in May. College Access: Opportunity or Privilege? Edited by […]
A very strong commitment
AccessUVA was created in 2004, after the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill introduced the “Carolina Covenant,” the first financial aid program at a public school that promised to meet all student financial need. Though Access UVA is the new umbrella name for all of UVA’s financial aid programs, here’s what is new: AccessUVA […]
UVA By the numbers
In-state cost (including tuition, room and board, travel and expenses): $17,725 Out-of-state cost (not including travel): $35,605 Percentage of students on Pell grants: 7.9 Percentage who are “low-income”: 5.5 Percentage who apply for financial aid: 25 Percentage of undergraduates who apply for financial aid: 45 Funds given in need-based aid 2006-07: $33.5 million Funds given […]
Everybody iPod
It’s a common sight at UVAâa large lecture class dismisses, a flood of students pours out a set of double doors and they all plug in, dialing cell phones or popping those telltale white