Spellings Introduces 'Fafsa4caster' to Give Students Earlier Data on Federal-Aid Eligibility
Chronicle of Higher Education / March 22
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced on Wednesday a new online tool that will help students and their families better financially plan for college before a student's senior year of high school. The "Fafsa4caster," as the tool is called, will calculate a student's eligibility for federal student aid, including Pell Grants and subsidized loans. Using the new tool will also reduce the time it takes to complete the online Free Application for Federal ...
Carolyn Miles
Graduate of the Darden School of Business
Carolyn Miles, Chief Operating Officer of Save the Children, Joins Blackbaud's Board of Directors
Business Wire / March 21
http://www.stockhouse.com/news/news.asp?tick=BLKB&newsid=5005116
Daniel Stern
Graduate of the McIntire School of Commerce (2004) in finance and management
The Consultant Is In
Businessweek / March 21
http://tinyurl.com/2qckjl
Robert Terry
Graduate of the School of Law (1979)
Investment Scam Detector / Ex-SunTrust Exec Back at State Agency that Oversees Securities Laws
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / March 22
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Qian Cai
Director of demographics and workforce section for the Weldon Cooper Center
New Study Shows Trouble For Rural Businesses
WCAV CBS-19 / March 21
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/6614342.html
Nancy Damon
Program director for the Virginia Festival Of The Book
Festival of the Book Kicks Off
WCAV CBS-19 / March 21
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/6629672.html
Nancy Damon
Program director for the Virginia Festival Of The Book
Virginia Festival of the Book Kicks Off
WCAV CBS-19 / March 21
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/66151...
U.Va. Engineering School Secures Three MURI Grants from Department of Defense
U.Va. College Guides Program Provides Model for National Effort to Expand Access to College
Architecture Dean Designs a Space for Women's Work
'Civil Rights South' Tours History-Making Sites
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/
ASC appoints O'Neill, Daley
Committees to join in search for new provost
Lawsuit alleges Education Dept. overcharged students
Speaker calls for end to 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/
UVA has put out a notice concerning an emission from the school's heating plant. The University says environmental upgrades were carried out at the plant Tuesday night and Wednesday. As a result, there was a dusting of a sand-like substance in the vicinity of Brandon Avenue and Jefferson Park Avenue. ...the dust should be washed off with a hose...
A restaurant on the Corner is taking some major heat. The owner of Jaberwoke has established a dress code, but University of Virginia students say it's a discriminatory code. The owner of Jaberwoke says he is not targeting certain people--just their clothes. But students say it so happens that those clothes represent a certain culture. UVA students and the owner of Jaberwoke got into a heated exchange at a Tuesday night student council meeting on Grounds.
Are students from impoverished homes or minority populations any less likely to shine in the classroom? Or simply less likely to get noticed? If you are not on free or reduced lunch, you're four times as likely to be identified as gifted. If you are white or Asian, you are eight times as likely to be identified as gifted than if you were black or Hispanic. … At the end of the year, teachers will identify students they believe are gifted. They'll send those names to evaluators at the University of Virginia's Center on the Gifted and Talented.
On the night he took office as Virginia's governor, Linwood Holton and his family descended the grand staircase in Richmond's ornate Jefferson Hotel to join a ball celebrating his inauguration. … Holton, now 83, and his family returned to the Richmond landmark for a tribute that served as a fundraising gala for the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, a privately funded leadership training center housed at the University of Virginia. The gala, attended by 300 people, raised $225,000 for the institute.
…The advising corps is modeled after the University of Virginia's College Guide Program. That program's founding director, Nicole Hurd, will direct the national corps from the UNC Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
Tufts University and the Massachusetts Campus Compact have won a $1 million grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to pay recent graduates to be full-time advisers of low-income students in high school and community college. The College Advising Corps, modeled on a program at the University of Virginia, will pay a total of 45 Tufts graduates to encourage college enrollment among high-achieving students in low-income communities throughout the state.
The University of Utah is attempting to reach first-generation high school students with a $1 million grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. ...The program aims to reach 4,400 high schoolers over four years. The U.'s program is based on a successful model created by the University of Virginia and funded by the foundation.
The University of California at Berkeley's Center for Educational Partnerships received a $1 million grant today as part of a nationwide initiative aimed at increasing college enrollment and graduation among low-income high school and community college students. ...The program is based on a successful model created by the University of Virginia...
Are Virginia's two most populous cities really losing residents? Norfolk officials scoff at the idea. Beach officials say their city is growing slowly. And experts at the University of Virginia say they think both cities are growing, but they acknowledge that it's almost impossible to know for sure. … Every year, experts at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia also estimate populations for each city and county in Virginia. And every year, Weldon Cooper's estimates vary from the Census Bureau's. This year is no exception.
[...] Now, researchers at the University of Virginia have bioengineered a new ACL replacement using a 3-D polymeric fiber braiding process. It's the first synthetic scaffold design to demonstrate exceptional tissue regeneration and healing, and it could lead to a promising ligament-replacement technology.
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation today...The programs, modeled after one created by the University of Virginia, will help low-income students apply to a wide range of colleges that fit their individual academic profiles and career goals.
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