Members of the University of Richmond community disaffiliated from campus organizations on March 25 in solidarity with the UR Black Student Coalition.
Disaffiliation, for Lawrence, is meant to disrupt operations. Lawrence said he had gone back and forth when deciding whether to disaffiliate.
WCGA will cease all normal operations — including weekly meetings — but will still hear student concerns.
Once the motions to disaffiliate and preemptively approve SOBAC recommendations were passed, Polcari resigned from his position as RCSGA president and swore in Lawrence.
The Faculty Senate voted to offer a credit/no credit option for students and adopted a statement calling for the renaming of Mitchell-Freeman and Ryland halls.
The Community Dialogue Facilitation Network pilot, which aims to strengthen facilitation skills surrounding "difficult" dialogue, started its series of five sessions on March 5.
UR will continue to conduct bi-weekly mandatory prevalence testing for all undergraduate students taking in-person classes during the Orange Stage.
The UR 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.
A clerical error resulted in some UR students who are enrolled in dining plans to be charged for meals while in isolation or quarantine for COVID-19.
Listen to community perspectives regarding T. Justin Moore and whether he should be memorialized on campus. The Westham Project an investigative report about race at UR.
President Crutcher describes the Statement on Free Expression as a “living document” that can change.
The teach-in was organized by Amankwaah, Shira Greer, Simone Reid, Kayla Corbin, Katiana Isaac, Jordyn Lofton and Kristen Starks.
Lawrence and Spear both currently serve on RCSGA as vice president of administration and vice president of finance, respectively.
The bi-weekly rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 prevalence testing this semester have resulted in some false-positive results for students.
A Black Student Coalition released a statement on Black student welfare calling for UR to make a plan to meet the demands by April 1.
Professor of political science Monti Datta explained that Hallock will be entering a community that has begun to reckon with injustice.
The Faculty Senate decided to designate a light workload week, when professors are supposed to assign less work than usual, Williamson said.
First-year Matteo Gonzalez views the transition as a step in the right direction, he said.
In-person campus tours, limited to one admitted student and family per guide, have resumed, after pausing in March 2020 because of COVID-19.
This week Conner talks with high schooler and activist Hadrien Padilla, Collegian multimedia editor Nina Joss, and reporters Ellie Watson and Julia Straka.
