Signature Management Corp., a Virginia Beach-based property management company, has established the Richard M. Waitzer Professorship in Business Ethics at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business. Funded with a gift from Signature president Brad Waitzer, a 1987 graduate of the school, it is named in memory of the company’s founder, who passed away in January 2019 after a 65-year business career based on acting ethically and treating people fairly.
UVA coaches, upon learning the announcement, had to react to the news and then support their student-athletes. Here’s how four Virginia coaches handled the news.
Both UVA and Virginia Commonwealth University are now on the front lines of the state’s race to expand its testing capabilities – a push labs across the country are making as states scramble to quell the spread of the virus. Both institutions are stuck in limbo as they wait for critical supplies – the same materials that scientists across the country, and around the world, are ordering as the virus continues to spread.
New College Institute and the University of Virginia’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies are taking “baby steps” toward possible collaboration. Through a new partnership between the two schools, UVA’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies’ website will be linked from NCI’s website.
Hundreds of thousands of college students in the Washington area and beyond face sudden upheaval as academic plans are being reworked on the fly during and after their spring breaks. On Wednesday, UVA and Catholic, Gallaudet, Georgetown, Howard and Marymount universities in the region announced temporary suspensions of in-person teaching.
Meanwhile, as more colleges and universities decide to move their classes online, most Virginia institutions still remained open for employees as of Wednesday afternoon. The University of Virginia, for instance, recommends its staff and faculty to “continue reporting to work as usual” while taking safety precautions.
Businesses all over Charlottesville, and especially on the University of Virginia Corner, may bear the brunt of no students on Grounds due to the coronavirus.
Henry J. Abraham, a professor emeritus of politics at the University of Virginia, died on February 26. He was 98. Abraham wrote several books on civil rights and law, including Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States (Oxford University Press, 1967).
The University of Virginia also announced Wednesday that it would move all classes online and send students home. The change could last through the end of the semester, according to a statement from the University.
The University of Virginia sent an email to students Wednesday informing them that all classes, starting next week, would be completed online.
The University of Virginia is announcing the community organizations it plans to partner with to bring affordable-housing units to Charlottesville. It is all part of UVA’s 2030 strategic plan. “It’s kind of a new day here,” said UVA Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer J.J. Davis.
(Video) More than 940 students packed UVA’s Disharoon Park to watch the UVA baseball team finish a two-game series with a win against U-Mass Lowell.
UVA football coach Bronco Mendenhall has halted all team activities over concerns about the COVID-19, throwing into question whether the defending ACC Coastal Division champions will begin practice on March 24 as was originally planned.
After nearly 18 months and $13 million, UVA President Jim Ryan is enjoying renovations that brought Carr’s Hill into the 21st century.
Businesses near UVA may be taking a hard hit, as students go online and potentially stay at home. Several businesses have no plans of closing their doors.
What is the social and business protocol when you want to stay healthy, but you don't want to be rude? Dr. William Petri, an infectious disease expert at UVA School of Medicine, says, “Handshakes are definitely out, and frequent handwashing and the use of hand disinfectants are in."
For the University of Virginia to support affordable housing in Central Virginia could be a game-changer. Not only because of the amount of affordable housing that would be added, although those additions will be valuable. But also because the proposal is a departure from the usual role envisioned for a university – this or any other.
University of Virginia Athletics will continue as scheduled, amid cancellations of other major events in the U.S. and abroad because of the COVID-19 outbreak. Meanwhile, the Ivy League is canceling its upcoming basketball tournaments.
One of the most consequential places voting today is Michigan, where 125 delegates are on the line. Sanders needs to capture many of them to stay competitive in the race. In addition to Biden’s support from black voters in the state, two of the districts that Democrats flipped in 2018 are highly educated suburban districts. While Sanders won both of them in 2016, today “that seems almost impossible to imagine,” Kyle Kondik, an election analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, said.