One of the University of Virginia’s most influential faculty members is leaving UVa to take a top job at Tulane University — marking the university’s second high-profile faculty departure in less than a week.

The Virginia Department of Transportation has awarded the city of Charlottesville a $328,280 Safe Routes to School project grant.

Nearly a quarter of teachers who responded to a survey recently conducted by the Albemarle Education Association reported working 60 or more hours per week. And two-thirds said that they do not have enough time in the week to complete the tasks that are expected of them.

Piedmont Virginia Community College’s graduation this afternoon has been relocated to University Hall at the University of Virginia.

Growing up in Zion Crossroads, Candice Clowater was bitten by the computer bug at an early age.

The Albemarle school division denied Thursday an allegation that officials at Albemarle High School warned female students not to wear T-shirts promoting abstinence.

Thomas Taylor, the incoming principal at Charlottesville High School, believes that the secret to narrowing the school’s achievement gap is individualized attention.

For several years, Todd Barnett envisioned founding an all-boys middle school in the Charlottesville area.

The executive committee of UVa’s Board of Visitors on Wednesday unanimously endorsed substantial tuition and fee increases for in-state and out-of-state students attending the university in the 2008-09 academic year.

The executive committee of UVa’s Board of Visitors on Wednesday set undergraduate tuition rates for the 2008-09 academic year.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a suspicious person on the premises, school officials said.

The executive committee of UVa’s Board of Visitors is meeting today to set undergraduate tuition rates for the 2008-09 academic year.

For two years, Miruna Dumitria, a junior at Albemarle High School, has volunteered at the Sexual Assault Resource Agency. She is part of a group that goes to high schools performing a play about healthy and unhealthy teenage relationships.

Albemarle, Charlottesville, Monticello and Western Albemarle high schools have begun campaigns to raise money to purchase synthetic turf athletics fields.

Ever since Edward L. Ayers announced in November 2006 that he was exiting the University of Virginia to lead the University of Richmond, UVa has been hunting for the right candidate to follow him as dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

The University of Virginia announced Thursday that it has hired a University of Michigan political science professor as dean of UVa’s College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine took a piece of chalk and drew three interlocking circles on the blackboard at the front of the American Politics 101 class taught by University of Virginia professor Larry J. Sabato.
Finding common ground is possible with any political issue, whether it is transportation, mental health reform or the expansion of pre-kindergarten education, Kaine told the UVa students.

The number of limited English proficiency students enrolled in the Charlottesville school division has risen 16.8 percent over the past year to 411.
The school greatest affected by that jump has been Greenbrier Elementary, which received 17 new LEP students this year to bump that population to 58.

The Albemarle School Board has decided what to cut to bring revenues in line with expenses, paving the way for the board to vote on a $151.3 million budget Thursday.

The University of Virginia intends to tap deeper into its $5 billion endowment to finance its ambitious — and expensive — plans for the future.
“We may be on the cusp of greatness,” said John O. “Dubby” Wynne, chairman of the UVa Board of Visitors’ finance committee. “We’re going to have to be innovative and willing to take some risks.”

The 71-cent real-estate tax rate adopted by the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors will provide the School Board with approximately $400,000 more than the $151.3 million the schools had requested.

A Piedmont Virginia Community College student has been named one of the nation’s top 20 community college students.

Many Faulknerians gathered at UVa on Friday to remember him and talk about his relevance at an exhibit and symposium that marked the 50th anniversary of William Faulkner’s residency at the university. The exhibit showcased Faulkner’s tweed jacket and typewriter. A picture put him in the moment, savoring the Lawn adorned in a trilby, professor-issued pipe and tweed suit.

The Miller School of Albemarle has selected a new headmaster.
Walter W. “Winn” Price III will take the position July 1. Price will replace Lindsay Barnes, who is leaving Miller after nine years to become headmaster of Hawaii Preparatory Academy.

The University of Virginia Student Council unanimously condemned the college gossip Web site JuicyCampus.com on Tuesday, saying its postings about UVa students are “insensitive,” “malicious” and violate the university’s principles of honor and respect.

Construction is nearly set to begin on a new 25,265-square-foot complex for elite University of Virginia graduate students.
The “Jefferson Fellows Center” of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation will offer its graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral fellows a place to congregate, perform research, exchange ideas and teach classes.

The University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education announced Monday that it has hired a former official of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to be its first associate dean for research and faculty development.

At the Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center, carpentry students are putting those words into action.

Albemarle school officials are in the early stages of planning a math and science magnet school that would be housed in Albemarle High School.

Charlottesville Mayor David Brown visited with a federal education official about the challenges that a substantial refugee student population brings to the city’s schools.