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Members
of the University's Board of Visitors made it
clear at last weekend's meetings that they will
be keenly interested in the outcomes of 250 faculty
searches initiated since a hiring freeze ended
in July 2003. Currently, only 2 percent of full
professors are African Americans and 13 percent
are women. "We're not happy with those numbers,"
said board member Warren Thompson, who chairs
the board's diversity committee. Full
story.
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Ever
since diagonal avenues and pedestrian malls
were imposed on the nation’s capital in the
19th century, Washington, D.C. has been a focal
point of grandiose urban design. U.Va.
architecture professor William Morrish, along
with colleagues and
students, is working with
others to reverse
the long-term
damage
caused by neglect, lack of funding and
lack of political clout that beseiged the city
in the 20th century. Full
story.
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 No
matter what agenda a politician might bring into
office, circumstances have a way of setting new
priorities. Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, the
U.Va. Women's Center's 2004 Distinguished Alumna,
discovered that truth in January, when inmates
stormed a guard tower at a state prison and took
hostages, spraying the prison yard with automatic
weapons fire. Napolitano's response, and the second-guessing
that followed, points out gender differences in
how leadership is perceived, she said Wednesday
in her speech at the Universty's Law School.
Full
story.
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