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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For the four members of Charlottesville’s Board of Architectural Review (BAR) (www.charlottesville.org) that were around in 2004, the night of February 20 offered a moment of déjà vu. The application for a nine-storey, 86,000-square-foot, 100-room hotel was the same exact submittal the BAR approved three years ago for the site of the former Central Fidelity […]
The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the rights of American citizens by placing a number of restraints on the government. “Individual rights are not meant to make the government’s job easier,” says Albemarle Delegate Rob Bell. “They’re meant to make it harder.” One restriction the Bill of Rights sought to impose was […]
The City has finalized its list of transportation proffer priorities in the Biscuit Run development south of Charlottesville in Albemarle County: City Council (www.charlottesville.org) decided at their February 5 meeting to request improvements for Old Lynchburg Road, synchronized lights in the city and money toward a Fontaine connector. Those recommendations have been forwarded to the […]
Alia Anderson’s most recent accident pitched her off the bicycle she uses to travel from her home on Cherry Avenue to the Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation (ACCT)
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
“I’m an improviser,” announced Bobby Seale (www.bobbyseale.com), once Black Panther Party (BPP) (www.bp.org) chairman, during his February 22 address to a packed Harris-Small Auditorium. And for an hour and a half, he stuck to form, delivering a rambling but illuminating recital of the group’s beginnings. Invited to speak as part of Black History Month, Seale—sartorially […]