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| Halsey
M. Minor |
Alumnus Halsey Minor
gives $25 million to Arts & Sciences
Staff
Report
Halsey
M. Minor, founder and chairman of CNET Inc., will give $25 million
to the University to integrate digital technology with the humanities
and social sciences in ways that promise to redefine a liberal arts
education in the Internet Age.
University
President John T. Casteen III called Minor's gift extraordinary
in its foresight. "His creative thinking and generosity will
help us to infuse new ways of teaching and learning into our classrooms
and our libraries so that we can play a key role in transforming
higher education more broadly through innovative uses of digital
technology," Casteen said.
Minor's
challenge gift is designed to encourage other donors -- individuals,
corporations, foundations and governmental entities -- to match
his commitment in both funds and support for the project. The gift
is the largest ever to U.Va.'s College of Arts & Sciences, and will
help create a 21st-century Digital Academical Village, modeled on
Thomas Jefferson's original Academical Village, where faculty and
students live and learn in proximity to one another. Full
story.
| Virtually
reaching out |
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Outreach
programs the University provides to the public are as diverse
as they are plentiful. Here, Jane Anne Young, director of education
at the University's Bayly Art Museum, gives a tour to school
children. A new Web site, Outreach Virginia, catalogues U.Va.s
public service programs like this one. See Connecting
town-gown communities with technology for new ways the University
is working on bridging the digital divide. |
Tradition,
technology mix at Fall Convocation
By
Dan Heuchert
Tradition
hung warmly in the Indian summer air Oct. 13 as the University celebrated
Fall Convocation. The historic Lawn, an academic procession, messages
from two secret societies and a remembrance of the many contributions
of retiring Senior Vice President Ernest H. Ern lent a retrospective
feel to the afternoon ceremony, in which intermediate honors were
bestowed upon some 742 third-year students and David T. Gies won
the Thomas Jefferson Award (see David Gies honored with Thomas Jefferson
Award).
But
as falling yellow leaves softly pelted students, faculty and guests,
there was also a clarion call to a high-tech future from keynote
speaker Anita K. Jones, University Professor and Lawrence R. Quarles
Professor of Engineering and Applied Science. Full
story.
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