Apr 10 Essay: What UVA’s national championship means for Charlottesville By Tess Conciatori, Alexandra D'Elia The Cavaliers brought that title home to a campus and city in need of a reason to celebrate. Continue reading
Aug 25 Column: How colleges need to stop sustaining white supremacy By Shaun R. Harper, Inside Higher Ed Shaun R. Harper, executive director of the USC's Race and Equity Center, writes about a speech he delivered to faculty and staff members at the University of Virginia one week after white supremacists showed up on the campus. Continue reading
Aug 24 Column: How colleges need to stop sustaining white supremacy By Shaun R. Harper, Inside Higher Ed Shaun R. Harper, executive director of the USC's Race and Equity Center, writes about a speech he delivered to faculty and staff members at the University of Virginia one week after white supremacists showed up on the campus. Continue reading
Aug 19 After Charlottesville, students worry about safety on campus By Maria Danilova, Associated Press As classes begin at colleges and universities across the country, some parents are questioning if their children will be safe on campus. Continue reading
Nov 08 Jury awards UVA administrator $3 million over Rolling Stone article By Alison Thoet A jury awarded $3 million in damages Monday to a former University of Virginia dean in a defamation case against Rolling Stone magazine. Continue reading
Nov 04 Watch 5:25 News Wrap: Unemployment rate drops below 5 percent By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, the Labor Department reported that U.S. employers added a net 161,000 jobs in October, dipping the unemployment rate a tenth of a percent to 4.9. Also, there are guilty verdicts in New Jersey Governor Chris… Continue watching
Oct 26 ‘Jackie’ of retracted Rolling Stone story says PTSD fogged memory By Alison Thoet The former University of Virginia student, whose account of a campus rape was the center of a retracted Rolling Stone article, said she suffered from PTSD. Continue reading
Oct 18 Two years after debunked campus rape story, former UVA dean takes Rolling Stone to trial By Alison Thoet Rolling Stone headed to trial today for a defamation case over their portrayal of an University of Virginia dean in a discredited article of brutal gang rape. A statement from the student at the center of the article contradicts the… Continue reading
Feb 29 U.S. student apologizes for ‘severe crimes’ in North Korea By Ross Sylvestri Two months after his arrest in North Korea, a U.S. college student confessed to committing a crime against the country in a dramatic news conference held in Pyoungyang on Monday. Continue reading
May 12 UVA official sues Rolling Stone for libel over debunked campus rape story By Joshua Barajas The University of Virginia is suing the company that owns Rolling Stone, the magazine itself and a reporter for libel after Rolling Stone published an erroneous and now-retracted article about gang rape on the college campus, according to Reuters. Continue reading