Education

97% of the over 150 faculty members who participated voted in opposition of the compact.

The executive search consultant finding potential candidates for the University of Virginia President’s search revealed Tuesday they are in active conversations with roughly 30 people “who’ve expressed something between tentative to extraordinary interest”, and some faculty are concerned about the process in light of the letter from the White House.

Ground was broken in December 2023, and completion hopefully by holiday time 2027, Monday was a key milestone in the construction of the Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology’s 350,000-square-foot facility at Fontaine Research Park.

The department will host 15 events and a scavenger hunt from October 4-11 as part of the week, which is sponsored by the National Fire Prevention Energy. This year’s theme focuses on lithium-ion battery safety.

After kind of a false start with the effort around the time of the pandemic, Charlottesville schools parents are banding together with a citywide PTO fund.

The Mountaineers are one of 25 finalists in T Mobile’s Friday Night 5G Lights competition, which will award the winning school with a $1 million field renovation among other prizes. The school has already won $30,000 as part of the contest.

Trump’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence” requires universities to cease considering gender and race in admissions decisions.

The presentation entitled “Two Genders, One Truth” is set for the club’s Wednesday meeting.

Albemarle schools’ top citizen leader is pleased with the progress made to speed up weapons screenings that had slowed school day starts for many students at the three high schools.

The Virginia Film Festival schedule has October 26 as the world premiere date for a documentary on what it calls “one of the University’s most revered (and irreverent) institutions”, the University of Virginia Pep Band.