Akron/Family, with The Great White Jenkins
music In the world of indie and experimental music, bands of unclassifiable weirdness end up on lo-fi legend Michael Gira’s tiny imprint, Young God Records. And Akron/Family is unclassifiably weird. […]
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 […]
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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Downtown hotel design is back
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 […]
Bill changes definition of blight
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 […]
City wants more from Biscuit Run
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 […]
Bike advocates take to the streets
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)