Education

No city or economic development authority money is involved, but Charlottesville City Council has approved the UVA Alumni Association’s request for $50-million in Charlottsville Economic Development Authority bonds toward demolition and rebuilding of Alumni Hall.

UVA Health University Medical Center has earned the highest possible designation for trauma care in the United States, recognition as a Level I Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons.

Former ABC, CBS and NBC news anchor Katie Couric visited Carr’s Hill and helped her friend, former UVA president Jim Ryan, move out of the university residence.

The second day of the 2025-26 school year was Day 2 for students of the new Charlottesville Middle School, and it was a ribbon-cutting day in the beautiful gym in a $90-plus-million school where one may see the city of Charlottesville can have nice things.

Democrats criticize Winsome Earle-Sears’s support of Trump education policies.

Charlottesville Democratic State Senator Creigh Deeds sits on two key committees overseeing University Administrations, and tells CvilleRightNow “in my view, (the UVA Board of Visitors) has “not protected the University from outside influences”.

The University of Virginia has named alum and chair of radiology and medical imaging, Dr. Colin Derdeyn, as its interim Dean of the School of Medicine.

Monticello, has secured a two-year, $1 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Nine of Albemarle County’s 26 public schools and all 11 of Charlottesville’s city schools qualified for the USDA’s school meal programs.

The Wednesday morning start of school in Charlottesville and Albemarle County means the activation of speed cameras installed in some school zones.