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What Happens When an Employee Tests Positive for COVID?

The university typically becomes aware of a COVID-positive employee either from positive results of a voluntary on-campus test or a self-report from the employee. We realize it can be unnerving to receive a COVID diagnosis and employee outreach is conducted promptly and with concern for the employee’s overall wellbeing. The notification of an employee with […]

Announcement about Interim Provost Search

Dear Colleagues,I am pleased to announce that Dr. Timothy O’Donnell accepted the offer to serve as UMW’s Interim Provost beginning July 1, 2021. Tim, Professor of Communication, has served as UMW’s Associate Provost for Academic Engagement and Student Success since 2014. Before that he served as the University Reaffirmation of Accreditation Director (2010-2013), Director of […]

Seeking concept papers for Quality Enhancement Plan

Hello everyone,I am writing in my new role as Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) Compliance Certification Coordinator to remind you of the upcoming deadline for the submission of concept papers for consideration as our new Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP).The QEP during our last reaccreditation focused on the development of first-year […]

Bonds Publishes Updated and Expanded Edition of Social Problems Text

Eric Bonds recently published a second edition of his textbook, Social Problems: A Human Rights Approach with Routledge Press. The book uses an international human rights framework as a jumping-off place to teach students about power and inequality in U.S. society. This revised and expanded edition includes new chapters on human rights and immigration, climate […]

Larus Comments on Americans’ Negative Views of China

PSIA Professor and Chairman Elizabeth Freund Larus commented in Courthouse news that negative rhetoric coming out of the Trump White House was not the only factor in American’s increasing negative views of China. She indicated that Americans’ once overly optimistic views of China have been trending downward amidst concerns over China’s record on politics, economics, […]