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 at the last academic meeting of the 2008-09 academic year on May 11.
Azerbaijani authorities levied another charge against blogger and University of Richmond alumnus Adnan Hajizada today, which his father said made it clear that the government had no intention of releasing him. The added charge was deliberate infliction of serious damage to health. Hajizada and fellow youth activist Emin Milli face another two years added to their possible 10-year sentence on a charge of hooliganism.
First-year students and transfer students gathered for a welcome ceremony at the Robins Center, followed by a picnic at President Edward L.
The University of Richmond welcomed its largest class ever, the Class of 2013, during orientation activities. Contact staff photographer Leigh Donahue at leigh.donahue@richmond.edu
After a rejected appeal, supporters of Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizada have taken another step to try and get the bloggers released by sending a letter to Congress. The letter asks Congress to send letters of support to Azerbaijan authorities before Milli and Hajizada go to trial on Sept.
A district court in Azerbaijan dealt another setback to Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli on Monday, rejecting a claim that law enforcement agencies had presumed their guilt without conducting a proper investigation, Ol!
An Azerbaijani district court has agreed to consider appeals on Monday from Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli, who say that law enforcement agencies violated their presumption of innocence when arresting them on charges of hooliganism. Statements from the Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor's Office are presuming that both Hajizada, 26, and Milli, 30, are guilty, even though a court must rule on the case first, the Turan Information Agency in Azerbaijan is reporting.
A court hearing in Azerbaijan for detained University of Richmond alumnus Adnan Hajizada is expected to begin sometime after Sept.
The University of Richmond's ranking with the Princeton Review has improved this year, with top marks in classroom experience and athletic facilities.
The Rev. Craig T. Kocher, director of religious life at Duke University, has been appointed the University of Richmond's third official chaplain. Kocher replaces acting chaplain Kate O'Dwyer Randall, who took over when the Rev.
An Azerbaijani judge has rejected an appeal to the two-month pretrial detention for Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizada, the Ol!
In the first unified response to the University of Richmond to alumnus Adnan Hajizada's controversial arrest in Azerbaijan, 17 professors have co-signed letters in his support to Virginia congressional leaders, Azerbaijan's president and its U.S.
The Rev. Linda Morgan-Clement has worked in ministry for several years, including as the chaplain at a college, and now wants to bring that experience to the University of Richmond as its next chaplain. Morgan-Clement, 50, has a past filled with inclusion and exclusion, as she told roughly 60 people at a forum on July 9.
Adnan Hajizada, recently arrested for what friends said was his open criticism of the Azerbaijani government, learned how to be a democratic activist while a University of Richmond student, his father told The Collegian. Adnan Hajizada, 26, was involved in political groups, including Young Democrats, before he graduated from Richmond in 2005 as a political science major. His father, Hikmet Hajizada, said he had not been able to see his son since the arrest.
A 2005 University of Richmond graduate, Adnan Hajizada, has been arrested, detained and apparently beaten in Azerbaijan after he and a fellow activist posted video critical of the nation's government, according to e-mails and media reports. Authorities arrested Hajizada, 26, and fellow activist Emin Milli, 30, in the capital city of Baku last week after two men confronted them while they were dining with friends.
The second finalist for university chaplain met with a full room of students, faculty and alumni Thursday afternoon and emphasized the importance of interfaith dialogue, interdependency and inclusion at the University of Richmond. The Rev.
The Rev. Craig Kocher is a Chapel Hill, N.C., native, a charismatic minister and a sports fan who wants to become the next chaplain for the University of Richmond. The university's chaplain search committee approached Kocher, 33, and asked him to consider applying for the position, set to begin in fall 2009.
The first of two candidates for the university's chaplain position spoke to about 60 students, faculty and alumni Tuesday afternoon, citing his vision for the chaplaincy as a place where all students would feel welcomed and supported. "Wherever you may be on your journey, the Chaplain's Office will be a place of affirmation," said the Rev.
University officials announced early Tuesday morning that the Rev. Linda Morgan-Clement, chaplain and director of interfaith campus ministry at The College of Wooster in Ohio, is the second finalist for the University of Richmond's permanent chaplain position. The Rev.
President Edward Ayers said late Monday that the search for a permanent chaplain to the University of Richmond has been narrowed to two candidates, neither of whom are Acting Chaplain Kate O'Dwyer Randall, an announcement that casts uncertainty on the future role of one of the university's most revered and visible leaders. O'Dwyer Randall was not among those who applied for the position and declined to explain her reasons on the record.
