Africana studies to be offered, student organizers feel lack of credit in Crutcher's announcement
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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.
University of Richmond senior Suraj Bala sat in the monitoring room of the Henrico County Health Department among the complimentary water bottles and granola bars. Fifteen minutes had passed since Bala entered the room and no severe side effects seem to appear from his vaccine treatment, he recalled. By the end of his appointment, Bala left the health department knowing he was one of the first people in the UR community to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
When Lou’s Cafe was up and running in the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, junior Kathryn Shea, who is an accounting major, would eat there three times a week because the Red Pepper Gouda soup was a constant in her routine, Shea said.
University of Richmond T.C.Williams School of Law graduate Jenna Ellis has been making headlines since November 2019, after being appointed a senior legal adviser to then-President Donald Trump and his 2020 re-election campaign.
Approximately one month after the University of Richmond announced that it would implement Enhanced Red Stage guidelines for the spring semester, administrators shared that the UR community will remain in Enhanced Red Stage until Feb. 28.
As seniors prepare to graduate in less than three months, community members respond to the University of Richmond's tentative commencement plans provided by the UR administration at the beginning of February.
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On Monday, commuting students returned to campus for in-person classes for the first time since November. Off-campus students who intended to take classes in person were generally not allowed to come on campus from Jan. 25 to Feb. 8, and instead had to take classes remotely. This policy, announced by University of Richmond administrators in a Jan. 24 email, cited a rise in off-campus student COVID-19 cases as the reasoning behind the ban.
Editor's Note: This article was updated to remove a euphemism from the lede.
State and federal law enforcement are investigating a threatening email sent to a University of Richmond employee and similar emails sent to colleges across Virginia and the U.S.
Timothy W. Crowder, a University of Richmond boiler plant operator of 21 years — who is remembered by his family, friends and colleagues for his commitment and kind spirit — died on Jan. 16, according to a Jan. 20 email sent to UR students, faculty and staff.
All non-remote undergraduate students will be tested for COVID-19 on a biweekly basis, an increase from last semester’s prevalence testing, for campus safety, according to a Jan. 19 email sent to students and families by University of Richmond administrators.
The Jan. 25 discovery of a new, rapidly spreading strain of the virus in a Northern Virginia resident who reported no recent history of travel has raised some concerns among University of Richmond students. But methods to prevent the new strain's spread remain similar to those used against the original virus.
William “Bill” Coleman, 64, a shuttle driver at Groome Transportation who was permanently assigned to drive one of the shuttles at the University of Richmond, died Jan. 22 from lung cancer. Coleman is remembered for his hard work and dedication to his job, Groome Transportation representative LaToya Hurt said.
There is one figure that stands firm for the University of Richmond year after year: its endowment, which right now hovers just above $2.4 billion. For a school with approximately 3,000 undergraduate students and 1,000 graduate students, that number is pretty hefty.
William McLean joined the University of Richmond on Jan. 1 as chief investment officer and president of UR's investment firm, Spider Management Company LLC, for a five-year appointment, according to a UR press release.
Smaller departments and programs at the University of Richmond, including classical studies and Arabic studies, reflect on the challenges of sustaining themselves with small groupings of faculty.
Civil rights leader John Lewis’s words “get in good trouble, necessary trouble” inspired Henrico County student Kenton Vizdos to silently protest during his virtual classes at Deep Run High School this November. Vizdos did not expect that for him, trouble would take the form of two suspensions and an ACLU case.