The U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Richmond as No. 30 in "The Top Liberal Arts Colleges" for the 2008-09 year, the university's highest ranking since being placed in the highly competitive category in 2006. U.S.
The University of Richmond will introduce its newest environmental initiative this afternoon, and this time students will be asked to give up their cars instead of their dining hall trays. "The ultimate goal is for people to start riding bikes instead of driving around," said senior Karen DeBonis, one of the students behind the university's new bike-sharing program, which will allow students to ride university-owned bikes anywhere on campus. The bikes, 35 army-green beach cruisers with front baskets and fenders to prevent splash-ups, will debut on campus during a campus-wide scavenger hunt this afternoon. The bikes will be available for students to ride any time, but they may not be locked up, brought inside of apartments or residence halls or ridden off campus. DeBonis got the idea for a bike-sharing program at Virginia Power Shift 2008, an environmental conference held last October at Virginia Tech University.
The University of Richmond's endowment is out-performing other colleges and 2009 graduates are having little trouble finding jobs despite the bleak economy, according to university officials. Hossein Sadid, vice president for business and finance, said that at the end of the 2009 fiscal year on June 30, the university's endowment was down 14 percent, but he added that the figure was a positive result compared to other universities. "I'm not aware of any other endowment in the country that can claim that performance," Sadid said. The university had also scored very well on recent tests administered by the Department of Education - tests which determine the financial stability of institutions participating in the Title IV federal student financial assistance programs, Sadid said.
Students with influenza-like illnesses should return home if they live within several hours of the university, according to the H1N1 flu response plan sent to students today. In an e-mail to Richmond students, Steve Bisese, vice president for student development, recommended ? but didn't require ? that students sick with influenza-like illnesses return home if they live within five hours of Richmond and don't require public transportation to get there.
August 31, 11:15 a.m. -- Steve Allred, provost and vice president for academic affairs, sent an e-mail to staff and faculty, confirming four suspected cases of H1N1 influenza on campus.
Kimberly Leonard, a former Collegian staff writer and online managing editor, reported from Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Messages of protest have overwhelmed social networking sites following the arrests of activist bloggers Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli, but Friday the outcries transcended the digital world and arose on the streets outside the Azerbaijani Embassy. Elmar Chakhtakhtinski, organizer of "Rally in support of Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli" and member of Azerbaijani-Americans for Democracy (AZAD), led a group of roughly 30 protesters, mostly native Azerbaijanis.
A fox spotted in the wooded area near the Robins School of Business could be a danger to students, according to a campus-wide email released late Friday morning. A neighbor called both Richmond City police and campus police this morning to report the fox that had been acting erratically and was possibly rabid, university officials said. Students were advised to be cautious and contact the police if the fox was located. Police do not search for rabid animals based on general reports from neighbors but animal control will respond if the animal is located, said Linda Evans, a spokesperson for the university. Close encounters with animals are fairly common at Richmond, especially in the University Forrest Apartments, where raccoons, foxes and squirrels can often be found rummaging through the trash. Contact staff writer David Larter at david.larter@richmond.edu and Nick Mider at nick.mider@richmond.edu
The parking lot across from the Jepson Alumni Center was speckled with gay pride and anti-prejudice paraphernalia on Aug.
I live off campus so I know nothing about meal plans, but I met with Dee Hardy, director of Dining Services.
In September 1969, alumnus and trustee E. Claiborne Robins donated $50 million to the University of Richmond with the goal of making the university one of the finest small universities in the nation. Nearly 40 years later, Edward L.
The University of Richmond's ranking with the Princeton Review improved this year, with top marks in classroom experience and athletic facilities.
Simple Assault May 4, 1:10 p.m. A male staff member was accused of pushing another male staff member out of his chair in Heilman Dining Center.
Faculty voted at the end of spring 2009 to stop teaching Core - the year-long course requirement for first-year students - and to replace it with a two-seminar sequence to start fall 2010. The vote occurred in the last academic meeting of the 2008-2009 academic year on May 11.
The following is an interview with the Rev. Craig T. Kocher, the University of Richmond's new chaplain, appointed in July from Duke University. Q: How has your first week been? A: It's been great.
Michelle E. Wamsley will become the assistant vice president of foundation, corporate and government relations for the University of Richmond Sept.
David Kitchen, along with earth scientists from six other American universities, are each creating a teaching module based on their specific specialties by using data NASA has collected on the earth's climate. The modules will be combined next fall into a new climate change course. "It's good science for students to go to original data," Kitchen said, "to work among themselves to understand some of the trickery that can be involved in presenting data for public use, particularly for political use." Kitchen will focus his module on ancient climates, his area of expertise. "If you can use your knowledge to predict what it should be like in the past and find that you're right, in the sense that we know what happened in the past, it gives you more confidence about predicting what's likely to happen in the future," he said. While the other modules' exact topics have yet to be decided, Kitchen said they would likely involve analyzing ice cores, atmospheric circulation, oceanic circulation, temperature change through time and other aspects of climate change. During the course, students will first be introduced to the basic idea, then they will analyze critical questions, and then learn what they need to know to understand how the climate works.
The University of Richmond's two-year search for a chaplain ended this summer when the Rev. Craig Kocher was named the university's third official chaplain. Kocher (pronounced COKE-er), formerly the assistant dean and director of religious life at Duke University, was selected by university officials in late July after he and another finalist in the selection process spent time meeting with faculty, staff, students and community members. The search, which began during the spring of 2007, was narrowed to two finalists in late June ? Kocher and the Rev.
A photo taken by senior Rasheed Nazeri at President Barack Obama's Inauguration was on display in the Smithsonian for two months during the summer. The Smithsonian Museum of American History, in partnership with the Presidential Inaugural Committee, created the exhibition, "I Do Solemnly Swear: Photographs of the 2009 Presidential Inauguration," and showed photographs taken by 10 professional photographers.
