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If you ride Charlottesville buses this spring, expect to run into a lot more University students, faculty and staff. They're all getting free rides on city and county bus lines beginning Monday, April 2.

One such initiative in Virginia just went national. The College Advising Corps, developed by the University of Virginia with lead funding from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, places recent college graduates in local high schools to provide guidance to high-performing, lower-income high school students. The Cooke Foundation recently announced $10 million in grants to 10 leading colleges and state flagship universities, … to expand the program and establish a national college advising corps.

Tiffany Meertins thought she would go to law school after college. But when she took a year off after graduating from the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, she found herself at a high school in southern Virginia helping students navigate the SAT-registration process and holding workshops for parents on how to fill out financial-aid forms.

U.Va. Extends admission to Class of 2011 Grad programs rank nationally Senator Warner discusses issues of national security Honor codifies confidentiality of counsel

More Students Choose Alternative Spring Break Chemical Engineer Wins Esteemed CAREER Award Police Manuals Put Blame on Victim, Coughlin Finds http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/

Florida Nixes Early Decision Inside Higher Ed / April 3 The chain seemed to break in September. That's when the University of Virginia said it planned to end its binding early decision program - an announcement that followed just weeks after similar pledges at Harvard and Princeton Universities. The move was followed by months of quiet, until now. In a decision that officials say has nothing to do with other institutions' actions and everything to do with its expanding applicant pool, Florida is eliminating its binding early admissions program. Instead of giving students an option of October ...

Montina M. Cole Who received her law degree in 1991 from the School of Law Schiff Hardin LLP Expands Energy Practice With Key Additions in the Washington, D.C. Office and in Boston PRNewswire/ April 2 http://tinyurl.com/ytb6gl Elliott Garber Received a B.A. degree in biology and religious studies from the University of Virginia Nation's First Veterinary Student Receives Prestigious NIH Fogarty Fellowship American Association for the Advancement of Science/EurekAlert / April 2 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/tu-nfv040207.php Edwin L. Harper Who holds a Ph.D. from the Universit...

Addison Heard A student in the Darden School An MBA, On The Family Plan / How B-schools help families relocate-or manage being apart Business Week / April 9 http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_15/b4029091.htm

Maurice Cox An architecture professor who is working with the Institute of Sustainable Community in Moss Point to help revitalize the city after Hurricane Katrina Moss Point to Unveil Its Vision of City's Future The Sun Herald (MS) / April 3 http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/17017731.htm?source=syn Andrea Douglas Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the University of Virginia Art Museum Fresh-Picked Hampton Roads (VA) Port Folio Weekly / April 3 http://www.portfolioweekly.com/Pages/InfoPage.php/iID/2718 Nicole F. Hurd Who created the College Guides program Schools Get F...

U.S. Sen. John W. Warner on Monday endorsed a full ban on restaurant smoking in Virginia. "I actually think it would be a wise thing," Warner, R-Alexandria, said during an impromptu news conference after speaking for an hour to University of Virginia professor Larry J. Sabato's class on American politics.

Sen. John Warner on Monday joined a growing list of Republicans questioning whether President Bush should retain Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez amid doubts about the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. "Gonzalez came up, told Congress what he thought had been done, (and) is now in serious question because of the retrieval of a lot of e-mails," Warner said in a lecture to Larry J. Sabato's political science class at the University of Virginia.

The University of Virginia's groundbreaking College Guides program has been so successful it's going national. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation recently announced it was giving $1 million to each of 10 schools across the country to duplicate U.Va.'s effort to get reluctant, low-income high school students into college. Nicole F. Hurd said she was excited by the expansion of the program she started at U.Va. two years ago. "I think we could be in 20 states by 2010," Hurd said. "I think this is the beginning of a greater partnership between higher education and K-12."

The 26 American universities that are seeking to raise at least $1-billion collected a total of $488.4-million in gifts and pledges during the last month for which they had data available. ... The University of Virginia, $1.173-billion as of February 28 (increase of $41-million in the last month); the goal is $3-billion by 2011.

Addison heard uses an image of his wife and infant son for the background on his laptop. An MBA student at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, Heard thinks about his family constantly. But because he's away at B-school, he has experienced much of his son's first year via phone calls and digital photos. ... As complicated as the Heards' situation seems, it isn't all that rare. In any year, hundreds of couples deal with how to handle the family logistics of going to B-school. Some choose a long-distance relationship, commuting back and forth on weekends and breaks. Others se...

University of Virginia professor Bankole Johnson is looking for cocaine and crack addicts, methamphetamine users and alcoholics. He wants to try to cure your addiction with a pill. ... The drugs are topiramate and ondanse- tron. Johnson, whose specialty is addiction medicine, has been studying their effects on addicts for 10 years.

More Pressure to Protect Men's Teams Inside Higher Ed / April 2 An organization challenging the way the Education Department enforces Title IX has told James Madison University to either stand with them or face a lawsuit. The threat is the latest fallout from James Madison's September decision to cut 10 teams - a move that has renewed criticism from advocates for men's athletics that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is being used to hurt their teams. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/02/jmu

Redefining Academic Freedom Inside Higher Ed / April 2 AFT seeks to reshape the debate about a core value by emphasizing issues of job security, or lack thereof, for adjuncts. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/02/adjuncts Faculty Federation Pushes Legislative Campaign to Increase Share of Full-Time, Tenure-Track Professors Chronicle of Higher Education / April 2 ...The legislative effort, which has been under way for just a couple of months, is called the Faculty and College Excellence campaign, and it constitutes a state-by-state stab at correcting what union leaders call the "sta...

'Hoos Next: U.Va. Offers Admission to Class of 2011 Grad Schools Earn High Marks in Latest U.S. News Rankings U.Va. Nurses Recognized for Critical Care Excellence http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/

City looks to lower real estate tax Prof. to use NSF grant to study toxic emissions Presidential hopeful debates war parallels Kaine amends Assembly's smoking bill http://www.cavalierdaily.com/

Frank Armstrong Who has a bachelor's degree in economics Investment Advisor Manages $500M The Miami (FL) Herald / April 2 http://www.miamiherald.com/103/story/58784.html Susan and Jacob D'Aniello University of Virginia graduates When "Doody" Calls, the D'Aniellos Are There Louisa (VA) Central Virginian / March 29 http://www.thecentralvirginian.com/fluvannews.htm Joseph C. Dimino Graduate of the School of Law Squires, Dimino and Drake Named to Senior Positions; Woods Retiring at Norfolk Southern Interest!ALERT / March 29 http://interestalert.com/story/03290000aaa01955.prn/siteia/TRANSPOR/tran...