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          <title>School officials eye test results</title>
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A state report on school achievement is packed with good news for Albemarle County, school officials say, but there&#8217;s plenty of room for improvement.
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          <title>Officials name roadway after former AHS principal</title>
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School officials have named a roadway after former Albemarle High School Principal Benjamin F. Hurt.
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          <title>3 city schools, 6 in county, falling behind</title>
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Nine Charlottesville and Albemarle County schools fell below 2008 federal education progress benchmarks established by the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act.


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University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III said he&#8217;s not convinced that lowering the drinking age to 18 won&#8217;t have a negative impact.
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          <title>Casteen not convinced on lowering drinking age</title>
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t know whether I&#8217;ll eventually sign it or not,&#8221; University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III told a group of incoming first-year students last weekend.
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          <title>Grooming the South Lawn</title>
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Construction of a terrace that will extend over Jefferson Park Avenue, connecting New Cabell Hall and the under-construction South Lawn, should begin by the middle of September.
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          <title>Students back minus dining trays</title>
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A student-led initiative at the University of Virginia is taking the trays out of the school&#8217;s dining halls.
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          <title>Want that advanced diploma? Try Charlottesville&#8217;s new math</title>
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Charlottesville High School administrators hope a new intermediate math course will help strong students earn an advanced diploma &#8212; even if their algebra skills aren&#8217;t so great.&nbsp;
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          <title>CHS unveils updates in classrooms, gym</title>
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With a smile, and miked to a freshly installed sound system, Charlottesville High School&#8217;s orchestra director greeted school officials who entered the new orchestra rehearsal room &#8212; which had long been an abandoned woodshop.
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          <title>New city trails lead children to school</title>
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Charlottesville resident Valerie Walcott lives close enough to Johnson Elementary School to walk there &#8212; but this year, as she dropped off two of her children Wednes-day for the first day of school, the walk was made a little better thanks to some new asphalt.
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Like every Albemarle County public school, the Community Public Charter School opens its doors today. Unlike the other schools, however, the new middle school has no detentions, no suspensions and a curriculum infused with the arts.
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          <title>Schools to hold even welcoming principal</title>
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Charlottesville City Schools will hold a reception for the new Charlottesville High School principal, Thomas Taylor, and other school staff at 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
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          <title>Albemarle schools seek more bang for bus bucks</title>
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The Albemarle County School Board received a report Thursday outlining potential cost-savings in school transportation that could result in a net savings of almost $100,000.
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          <title>Registration begins for annual Clark Elementary 5K</title>
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Registration is under way for Clark Elementary&#8217;s third annual Clark Super Achiever 5K Run-Walk
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          <title>STAB gets OK to expand its campus</title>
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St. Anne&#8217;s-Belfield School is now able to spread out on its existing campus after the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a special-use permit at its Wednesday meeting.
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          <title>Report vouches for artificial fields&#8217; safety</title>
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A new report concluding synthetic turf fields are safe for youth could put Albemarle County and Charlottesville high schools one step closer to having AstroTurf athletics fields.
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          <title>City School Board eyes new courses</title>
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Charlottesville City School Board members discussed adding new courses to the high school&#8217;s curriculum during its Thursday work session.
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          <title>UVa&#8217;s McIntire School raises nearly $2.3 million</title>
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The University of Virginia&#8217;s McIntire School of Commerce raised nearly $2.3 million in fiscal year 2007-08.
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          <title>Va. Tech nears $1B fundraising goal</title>
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Virginia Tech says it is closing in on its $1 billion fundraising goal after less than a year into the public phase of the campaign.
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          <title>New books take &#8216;progressive&#8217; look at health</title>
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Health education is about to become more comprehensive in Charlottesville schools.
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          <title>UVa overhauls benefits for employee education</title>
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Every academic division employee at the University of Virginia with at least one year of benefits-eligible service, including part-time service, can now receive $2,000 a year to cover the cost of taking classes related to their careers.
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          <title>The mystery of the ugly governor</title>
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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but one of Pio Pico&#8217;s face certainly wouldn&#8217;t launch that many ships.
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          <title>Cadets learn valuable lessons by volunteering at orphanage</title>
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From eating chicken brains to shopping in Shanghai, six cadets from Fork Union Military Academy spent two weeks immersed in an entirely different culture. Nothing, however, was more rewarding than the time they spent volunteering in an orphanage.


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          <title>Cavalier QB charged with underage possession</title>
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A quarterback with the University of Virginia football team has been charged with underage possession of alcohol, marking the latest in a string of headaches for the Cavaliers.
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Scholarships awarded to black students at the University of Virginia by the Walter Ridley Scholarship Fund will increase by $2,500, from $7,500 to $10,000.
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In Albemarle County, rising 6th-grade students need immunization vaccines before school starts on Aug. 20.
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The University of Virginia is escalating its efforts to discourage new students from imbibing staggering amounts of alcohol.
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          <title>Greene schools try new math approach</title>
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Math classes in Greene County&#8217;s primary and elementary schools are about to get more hands-on.
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          <title>Students get crash course in sciences at UVa camp</title>
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Former astronaut Dr. Bernard Harris asked more than 50 middle school students and their parents on Friday to use their imaginations as he described what it was like to walk in space.
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          <title>State superintendent to leave for UVa post</title>
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Billy Cannaday Jr. plans to resign from his post as the state&#8217;s Superintendent of Public Instruction to become a dean at the University of Virginia.&nbsp;
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          <title>Grant aims to up appeal of walking to school</title>
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The city of Charlottesville is getting $328,280 as part of the statewide Safe Routes to School program, designed to make bicycling and walking to school safer and more appealing for students from kindergarten through eighth grade.
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          <title>PVCC plans info sessions for prospective students</title>
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Piedmont Virginia Community College will host a series of free information sessions to introduce potential students to the college&#8217;s high-tech and health-care offerings.
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Murray High School, an Albemarle County charter school, is accepting applications for fall 2008.
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A plan to reduce chemical toxins in Albemarle County schools by restricting traditional pesticides and disinfectants won support from a handful of residents Thursday.
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The Albemarle County Planning Commission made a recommendation Tuesday that could help pave the way for a new $30 million academic building at St. Anne&#8217;s-Belfield.
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A contest, &#8220;JT&#8217;s &#8216;Tell Us What You Think,&#8217;&#8221; challenges elementary, middle and high school students in greater Charlottesville to devise gas-saving solutions and describe them in 150 words.
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The marching band at the University of Virginia&#8217;s College at Wise will be getting new uniforms and instruments thanks to a $1.28 million gift from the Hunter J. Smith Family Foundation.
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School is out for the summer, but activity in and around Charlottesville schools is not stopping.
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Piedmont Virginia Community College enrolled a record-breaking number of students during the 2007-08 academic year.
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The University of Virginia&#8217;s Board of Visitors has voted to tap deeper into its $3.2 billion endowment.
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The University of Virginia has named a prominent Alzheimer&#8217;s disease researcher as dean of its medical school.
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The University of Virginia&#8217;s longtime dean of admissions announced Monday that he will retire in June 2009.
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For weeks now, a group of James Madison University and University of Virginia students have been digging up history in the backyard of America&#8217;s fourth president, James Madison.
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There&#8217;s been bad news on Wall Street. The markets are soft. The dollar is weak. And in this slumping economic climate, Robert D. Sweeney faces a self-imposed goal of raising $1.25 million dollars a day, every day, for the next three years.&nbsp;
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The Charlottesville School Board selected the Virginia Department of Planning and Budget to conduct a study measuring the city school division&#8217;s use of resources.
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Virginia Commonwealth University is forming a task force to review its policies on corporate research in the wake of a controversy over a consulting contract with tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris USA.
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Several dozen rising sixth- and seventh-grade students in Charlottesville and Albemarle County this summer will explore science through the Odyssey 2025 program.
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William B. Harvey, the University of Virginia&#8217;s top diversity officer, is one of four finalists for the presidency at the University of the District of Columbia.
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William B. Harvey, the University of Virginia&#8217;s top diversity officer, is one of four finalists for the presidency at the University of the District of Columbia.
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The future of Greene County schools does not include the Health Cottage, but it does have augmented pay scales for division employees.
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Walker Upper Elementary School perform a living Olympic Rings.
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Walter Dexter Whitehead Jr., a longtime University of Virginia dean and professor of physics, died Tuesday after a long fight with prostate cancer. He was 85.
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The Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia signed off on a partnership Tuesday that will bring up to 60 Swiss students per year to study at the school.
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October will be Disabilities Awareness Month in the Charlottesville school division, thanks to the efforts of Daniel Milner, a senior at Charlottesville High School.
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The rewards and difficulties of offering teachers merit pay &#8212; and ways to get good teachers where they&#8217;re most needed &#8212; were hashed over by Albemarle school officials Thursday, with two School Board members signaling a willingness to pay more for better instruction.
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Richard and Judy Nunley, the owners of Better Living Furniture and Better Living Building Supply, started the Golden Apple Awards in 2001 to honor local teachers for the work they do in building a better community.
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After several years of planning by co-founders Sandy Richardson and Bobbi Snow, the Community Public Charter School will open its doors in Albemarle County. About 20 students have completed the enrollment process and another eight to 10 are expected to by the time school starts.
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Virginia Tech officials say the school has received deposits from 5,601 freshmen for fall 2008, up from 5,215 deposits received last year.
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The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Virginia is offering local senior citizens an array of more than 50 classes for the fall semester.
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&#8220;In today&#8217;s multi-purpose, decentralized university, it&#8217;s easy to lose sight of Jefferson&#8217;s ideals or to see them as dated or dead,&#8221; former Cornell University President Hunter R. Rawlings III delivered the commencement address. &#8220;Jefferson&#8217;s ideals still have plenty of life left in them.&#8221;
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The University of Virginia awarded about 6,000 degrees on Sunday, May 18, 2008 during the 179th commencement.&nbsp; A light rain didn&#8217;t stop raucous celebrations among the graduates and their families, who filled the Lawn with cheers and emotion.
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It was a historically tough year for students applying to the nation&#8217;s elite universities.&nbsp;
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Tens of thousands of people will descend on Charlottesville this weekend for the University of Virginia&#8217;s 179th graduation exercises.
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The Charlottesville School Board set aside Thursday up to $50,000 to review how the school system uses its resources during the 2008-09 school year.


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Tens of thousands of people will descend on Charlottesville this weekend for the University of Virginia&#8217;s 179th graduation exercises
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One of the University of Virginia&#8217;s most influential faculty members is leaving UVa to take a top job at Tulane University &#8212; marking the university&#8217;s second high-profile faculty departure in less than a week.
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The Virginia Department of Transportation has awarded the city of Charlottesville a $328,280 Safe Routes to School project grant.
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Nearly a quarter of teachers who responded to a survey recently conducted by the Albemarle Education Association reported working 60 or more hours per week. And two-thirds said that they do not have enough time in the week to complete the tasks that are expected of them.
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Piedmont Virginia Community College&#8217;s graduation this afternoon has been relocated to University Hall at the University of Virginia.
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Growing up in Zion Crossroads, Candice Clowater was bitten by the computer bug at an early age.
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The Albemarle school division denied Thursday an allegation that officials at Albemarle High School warned female students not to wear T-shirts promoting abstinence.
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Thomas Taylor, the incoming principal at Charlottesville High School, believes that the secret to narrowing the school&#8217;s achievement gap is individualized attention.
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For several years, Todd Barnett envisioned founding an all-boys middle school in the Charlottesville area.
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The executive committee of UVa&#8217;s Board of Visitors on Wednesday unanimously endorsed substantial tuition and fee increases for in-state and out-of-state students attending the university in the 2008-09 academic year.
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The executive committee of UVa&#8217;s Board of Visitors on Wednesday set undergraduate tuition rates for the 2008-09 academic year.
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The Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is investigating a suspicious person on the premises, school officials said.


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The executive committee of UVa&#8217;s Board of Visitors is meeting today to set undergraduate tuition rates for the 2008-09 academic year.
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For two years, Miruna Dumitria, a junior at Albemarle High School, has volunteered at the Sexual Assault Resource Agency. She is part of a group that goes to high schools performing a play about healthy and unhealthy teenage relationships.
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Albemarle, Charlottesville, Monticello and Western Albemarle high schools have begun campaigns to raise money to purchase synthetic turf athletics fields.
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Ever since Edward L. Ayers announced in November 2006 that he was exiting the University of Virginia to lead the University of Richmond, UVa has been hunting for the right candidate to follow him as dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts &amp; Sciences.
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The University of Virginia announced Thursday that it has hired a University of Michigan political science professor as dean of UVa&#8217;s College and Graduate School of Arts &amp; Sciences.
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine took a piece of chalk and drew three interlocking circles on the blackboard at the front of the American Politics 101 class taught by University of Virginia professor Larry J. Sabato.

Finding common ground is possible with any political issue, whether it is transportation, mental health reform or the expansion of pre-kindergarten education, Kaine told the UVa students.
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The number of limited English proficiency students enrolled in the Charlottesville school division has risen 16.8 percent over the past year to 411.

The school greatest affected by that jump has been Greenbrier Elementary, which received 17 new LEP students this year to bump that population to 58.
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The Albemarle School Board has decided what to cut to bring revenues in line with expenses, paving the way for the board to vote on a $151.3 million budget Thursday.
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The University of Virginia intends to tap deeper into its $5 billion endowment to finance its ambitious &#8212; and expensive &#8212; plans for the future.

&#8220;We may be on the cusp of greatness,&#8221; said John O. &#8220;Dubby&#8221; Wynne, chairman of the UVa Board of Visitors&#8217; finance committee. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to have to be innovative and willing to take some risks.&#8221;


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The 71-cent real-estate tax rate adopted by the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors will provide the School Board with approximately $400,000 more than the $151.3 million the schools had requested.
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A Piedmont Virginia Community College student has been named one of the nation&#8217;s top 20 community college students.
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Many Faulknerians gathered  at UVa on Friday to remember him and talk about his relevance at an exhibit and symposium that marked the 50th anniversary of William Faulkner&#8217;s residency at the university. The exhibit showcased Faulkner&#8217;s tweed jacket and typewriter. A picture put him in the moment, savoring the Lawn adorned in a trilby, professor-issued pipe and tweed suit.
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The Miller School of Albemarle has selected a new headmaster.

Walter W. &#8220;Winn&#8221; Price III will take the position July 1. Price will replace Lindsay Barnes, who is leaving Miller after nine years to become headmaster of Hawaii Preparatory Academy.
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The University of Virginia Student Council unanimously condemned the college gossip Web site JuicyCampus.com on Tuesday, saying its postings about UVa students are &#8220;insensitive,&#8221; &#8220;malicious&#8221; and violate the university&#8217;s principles of honor and respect.
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Construction is nearly set to begin on a new 25,265-square-foot complex for elite University of Virginia graduate students.

The &#8220;Jefferson Fellows Center&#8221; of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation will offer its graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral fellows a place to congregate, perform research, exchange ideas and teach classes.
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The University of Virginia&#8217;s Curry School of Education announced Monday that it has hired a former official of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to be its first associate dean for research and faculty development.
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Albemarle school officials are in the early stages of planning a math and science magnet school that would be housed in Albemarle High School.
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Charlottesville Mayor David Brown visited with a federal education official about the challenges that a substantial refugee student population brings to the city&#8217;s schools.
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