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About
100 graduate students held a rally in front of Old Cabell
Hall April 18 before President John T. Casteen III’s
State of the University address. Dressed up in bandages and
slings, the students urged the University to provide health
insurance for all graduate students and their families. During
his talk, Casteen said he supports the issue.
U.Va.
administrators announced a week earlier that they will seek
approval from the Board of Visitors to offer a $900 annual
subsidy toward health insurance for graduate teaching and
research assistants, who make up about 60 percent of the total
number of graduate students. The annual cost to U.Va. would
be approximately $1.8 million, to come from earnings on the
unrestricted endowment, indirect cost recoveries from research
grants, tuition and fellowship funds.
Rates
are going up for the two QualChoice plans, to $915 and $2,263
next year; rates to cover spouses and children are higher.
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People
at core of realizing the vision
Casteen rallies U.Va. community to work toward future excellence
By
Anne Bromley
President
John T. Casteen III reminded members of the U.Va. Community at his
State
of the University address April 18 that the primary reason for the
fundraising of the past decade and the Virginia 2020 planning efforts
is to support the University’s human capital, its most precious
asset.
“When
all is said and done, and we’ve looked at the numbers and considered
the progress and talked about the challenges, the University’s
most important investment is not in its buildings, not in its history
or its Grounds … or its stadium. The investment is in students
and in faculty and in staff,” he told an audience of several
hundred.
He
recounted a Chinese proverb: “If you are planning for one year,
grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years, grow trees. If you
are planning for centuries, grow people,” saying the University’s
purpose is the latter — to grow people. Full
story.
Jefferson
Scholars Foundation
offers graduate fellowships
By
Anne Bromley
The
Jefferson Scholars Foundation, the parent of U.Va.’s successful
undergraduate pro-
gram, has launched a new effort to attract top-notch graduate students.
This fall, the first three graduate students will join the U.Va.
community.
“We
want to take what we do at the undergraduate level and enrich the
University community of scholars with the most promising Ph.D. candidates,”
said Byron Hulsey, assistant director of the foundation. The University’s
Jefferson Scholarships, offered since 1980, support about 30 to
35 undergraduates a year. Full
story.
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