Faculty Senate passes credit/no credit option, urges name changes
Editors note: Shira Greer is a Collegian editor. This article was updated to add information about the Faculty Senate vote, which was not unanimous.
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Editors note: Shira Greer is a Collegian editor. This article was updated to add information about the Faculty Senate vote, which was not unanimous.
The University of Richmond Black Student Coalition is asking students, faculty and staff who support the demands of the Statement on Black Student Welfare to disaffiliate from student organizations, task forces and other extracurricular roles at UR on March 25, in response to a March 17 email from president Ronald Crutcher announcing the names of Mitchell-Freeman and Ryland halls will not change.
Editor's Note: Shira Greer and Kristen Starks are Collegian editors.
The Richmond College Student Government Association presidential candidates, juniors Anthony Lawrence and Kevin Spear, participated in a debate via Zoom Monday concerning numerous topics affecting campus, such as Greek Life, campus safety and memorialization.
The bi-weekly rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 prevalence testing this semester have resulted in some false-positive results for students.
Editor's Note: This article was updated to include the date of the presidential transition. The Collegian was informed by UR communications on March 5 that Hallock will begin both his role as president and appointment as a professor this fall.
Nearly two months after the spring 2021 semester started, the University of Richmond transitioned into the Red Stage of its Physical Distancing Framework Monday.
The University of Richmond is having a light workload week this year instead of the usual spring break to encourage students to remain on campus and not travel. However, some students have expressed frustration with the week, which lasts from March 1 to 5, saying not all faculty are assigning less work than usual.
Q-Camp, hosted annually by the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, had two major changes this year. First, it was an entirely virtual event. Second, more students were eligible to attend than ever before.
Panhellenic sorority recruitment will take place this semester virtually with new recruitment measures in place, according to Lisa McCoy, Richmond Panhellenic adviser.
Editor's Note: Shira Greer is a Collegian editor.
The University of Richmond men’s basketball team has been quarantining and isolating in hotels and, at one point, used a shortened quarantine period, players said.
A graph created by sociology professor Eric Grollman shows the percentage of Black undergraduate students at the University of Richmond has declined in the past decade, which is also representative of a national downward trend in Black undergraduate enrollment.
The University of Richmond’s Beta Beta chapter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity has temporarily ceased operations due to a report of an in-person event breaking COVID-19 restrictions.
Two University of Richmond students co-wrote a petition calling on the Joe Biden administration to cancel $50,000 of student loan debt per borrower for all students.
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University of Richmond Student Employment, which is within the Financial Aid office, is set to raise student employee wages after the Virginia General Assembly passed legislation last spring to gradually increase the state's minimum wage in the coming months and years.
In the past six months, there have been two movements to provide a credit/no credit option for students during the fall 2020 and spring 2021 semesters, both of which were ultimately rejected.
A malfunctioning access point has caused Wi-Fi problems across campus all week, with increased problems Wednesday, University of Richmond technical support analyst Eli Anderson said. The unreliable Wi-Fi has caused problems for students, especially because many classes are now partially or wholly online because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Spider Ventures, an entrepreneurial organization founded by University of Richmond junior Julien Wadhwa, is introducing a 10-week virtual accelerator program this month to provide students with resources to make their start-up business ideas possible.