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Tuesday,
May 2, 2006
EXCELLENCE
IN ACADEMIC QUALITY, student engagement
and career placement has earned the University
of Virginia’s McIntire School of
Commerce the second spot among the nation’s
top undergraduate business schools, according
to the first ranking of undergraduate business
programs by BusinessWeek magazine. “We
achieved this ranking not because we focus
on rankings, but because we really care
about providing the best experience that
we can for our students, both in and out
of the classroom,” said McIntire
dean Carl Zeithaml (left). Full
story.
U.Va.
News Services/Photo courtesy of the
McIntire School
Acclaimed
poet Adrienne Rich will read from her work
at the University of Virginia on Thursday
at 8
p.m. in Culbreth
Theatre. A book signing will follow. Rich
has authored over 20 books, including over
a dozen collections of poetry. Her poetry
has been honored with two Guggenheim Fellowships,
the first Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a MacArthur
Fellowship, the Wallace Stevens Award from
the Academy of American Poets, the Los
Angeles Times Book Award and numerous other
awards. The event is co-sponsored by the
Virginia Quarterly Review, U.Va.’s
Creative Writing Dept., Studies in Women
and Gender, the Women’s Center, the
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
and the U.Va. Bookstore. For more information,
call 924-3124.
U.Va.
News Services
The
University of Virginia’s Faculty Senate gave
its stamp of approval for a new vision statement
for the University during its meeting on
Friday. Initiatives
of the plan include a 20 percent
increase in faculty to bring
the
faculty/student ratio to 1:15 over the next
seven years;
building internationally prominent research
programs in science, social science, humanities
and
professional schools; including writing instruction
for all undergraduates; and increasing diversity
of the faculty and student body. U.Va. President
John T. Casteen III led discussion
on compensation issues and gave an update
on the $3 billion capital
campaign, which officially kicks off on Sept.
30. Other business included the approval
of two new degree programs and the naming
of a new senate chairman. Full
story.
Total
Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda
Battle at Home and Abroad
11 a.m., Miller Center of Public Affairs, 2201 Old Ivy Rd. • Speaker:
Kenneth A. Osgood, author • Information: 924-7236.
