Category: Announcements

Internal announcements of interest to faculty and staff.

State Imposed Budget Reductions

To all UMW faculty and staff:As promised, I am reporting back to you with more specifics about the state budget situation. We now have learned that the state has imposed on each public institution of higher education a budget reduction of 5 percent this fiscal year and 7 percent for 2015-16. Obviously, a cut of […]

Lottery Lunches

The following message is from the Office of University Events and Conferencing: This is the fourth year for Faculty and Staff Lottery Lunches with President and Mrs. Hurley. All UMW Employees are eligible to enter the lottery. If you are chosen, you will be invited to attend a very special lunch with President and Mrs. […]

PTAC Innovation Grants

On behalf of the President’s Technology Advisory Committee (PTAC), I am writing to inform the campus community that the PTAC Innovation Grant Program has been discontinued this year due to budget reduction.We hope to have these funds reinstated in the near future, but in the meantime we will not be considering applications for the 2014-2015 […]

State Budget

On August 15, I was asked to attend a meeting of all agency heads in Richmond to hear from the Governor about the status of the State’s budget.  As has been widely reported in the news, he and his staff reported that they are projecting a $2.4 billion dollar shortfall over the next biennium due, […]

Important Message about New UMW Alerts

The following message is from the Office of Emergency Management and Safety: UMW has launched a new emergency alert system. Faculty, staff and students must register with the new system if they want to customize the ways they receive emergency notices– by text, phone and/or email.If you haven’t registered already, you will receive a message […]