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Editor's Note: This article was updated to include the cause of the outage.
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An uptick in COVID-19 cases on the UR Dashboard has led some students to plan to leave campus early, before the official end of in-person classes on Friday, however, students wishing to study remotely before in-person classes end need to exhibit symptoms of COVID-19, according to the University of Richmond's COVID-19 FAQ.
The coordinate college system is a characteristic of both a student’s academic career and social life at the University of Richmond. In recent years, some students have expressed concerns that the system is obsolete because students are placed into colleges based on their gender identity.
Editor’s Note: Two students who are in athletic programs at UR spoke with The Collegian on the condition of anonymity about their experiences regarding COVID-19 prevention.
University of Richmond faculty, staff and members of the administration discussed the Recommended Statement on Free Expression over Zoom at 3 p.m. on Nov. 12. This was a panel discussion that was meant to address faculty and staff concerns about the statement, providing the administration with feedback before finalizing the statement.
President Ronald Crutcher met with students and other members of the University of Richmond administration for his second event about the draft campus freedom of expression statement on a Zoom webinar at 7:30 p.m. on November 10.
President Ronald Crutcher and Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill, director of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Campus Free Expression Project, discussed the University of Richmond's Recommended Statement on Free Expression in a Zoom event held at 12:30 p.m. Thursday.
Ninety percent of University of Richmond undergraduate students who self-selected to complete a recent Collegian poll said they planned to vote in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. 78% of those students said they planned to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris of the Democratic Party.
Election security has been a heavily discussed topic leading up to the November election, with more people voting by mail because of COVID-19 and President Donald Trump repeatedly commenting about his distrust in the security of mail-in ballots.
Editor’s note: Two Westhampton College students and one Richmond College student spoke about their experiences regarding COVID-19 prevention with The Collegian on the condition of anonymity.
Two University of Richmond geography professors have had to adjust their three-year project studying environmental changes in the Amazon to a virtual format amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The project is funded by a $700,000 NASA grant and is currently in its second year.
Some University of Richmond students are voting in the November election early and in person; others have sent absentee ballots to their home states. The Bonner Center for Civic Engagement is providing services to assist students to get to the polls or mail in their ballots.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted how the University of Richmond community interacts: hybrid classes, virtual events, new use of campus spaces.
In an effort to hold in-person classes safely this fall, the University of Richmond introduced interim COVID-19 policies and physical distancing rules. Many of those rules are to be followed—or broken—within residence halls and apartments on campus, areas typically under the purview of resident assistants.
Chase Strangio, a practicing attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, discussed the state of transgender rights in the webinar "Fighting for Transgender People’s Right to be Themselves" on Oct. 20 as part of WILL* and women, gender and sexuality studies program "Audacious Voices" speaker series.
Schools across the U.S., including the University of Richmond, use diversity in their marketing to attract prospective students, which is evident in a study that showed that, on average, Black students are overrepresented in college marketing materials by 104%, according to Ted Thornhill's 2018 article, "We Want Black Students, Just Not You: How White Admissions Counselors Screen Black Prospective Students."
With the coming U.S. presidential election, now is a better time than ever for students to get involved in political issues they are passionate about. Although there are many ways to do this, one advocacy method that University of Richmond students have been practicing and studying is grassroots campaigning.
In the second installment of the School of Arts and Sciences webinar series “Responding to Two Pandemics,” guests discussed the current and future state of liberal arts education at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.
The Senate confirmation process to decide whether Judge Amy Coney Barrett will become the next Supreme Court justice started on Oct. 12 and has raised concerns among some members of student organizations at the University of Richmond.