It’s not a full seat at the table, but UVA faculty members at least will get to help in the kitchen. The Board of Visitors (BOV) elected at their June meeting to allow the outgoing Faculty Senate chair to serve as a nonvoting member on three BOV committees. While faculty still want to have a […]
Text savvy folks at UVA will now get a jump on any campus emergency. In an effort to improve communication in the event of a local version of the Virginia Tech tragedy, UVA has rolled out its text-messaging alert system. UVA students, faculty and staff can now sign up so that in the event of […]
City Council voted 3-2 at last week’s meeting to make a vehicle crossing permanent on the east end of the Downtown Mall. The current crossing at Fourth Street has been on a trial run for the last year, and the sentiments of surrounding businesses combined with driver surveys were enough to sway David Brown, Kendra […]
Funny how much difference a million dollars can make. It only took five minutes for the 124-unit Avinity project to garner the stamp of approval from the Albemarle Board of Supervisors at their June 13 meeting—thanks to a substantial increase in the amount of money developers agreed to pay the county for each unit built. […]
A pedestrian crossing Route 29N may seem like a fish out of water, but 10 UVA students have cooked up some intersection designs to make the trek more palatable. “Crossing eight lanes of traffic is daunting to say the least,” says Matt Dreher, one of the student designers. Does the future hold foot traffic on […]
Only days before her students take one of those major state Standards of Learning tests known in Virginia
It is probably no coincidence that Charlottesville High School’s Freshman Academy got more love from administrators after the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2001. Arguably the most influential—and maligned—federal education act since the 1964 Civil Rights Act pushed public school integration, NCLB uses test scores to measure “school accountability” and sets annual […]
This year’s graduating class of 261 had 451 students in ninth grade—which means the dropout rate should be huge, right? Try 3 percent. That’s the official number for the Charlottesville City Schools division from 2005-06, a number derived by the number of students who drop out in a year divided by the total number of […]
Shoppers’ World has been bought by the owners of Barracks Road Shopping Center, Federal Realty Investment Trust.
All it took was for Hunter Craig to come out of the woodwork to represent the development in which he’s a principal investor.