Opening Comments from the Dean
David S. Wilkes, MD
- Implications of HR 1, Tax Cut and Jobs Act, on Graduate Student Stipends
- Negative impact upon our students, UVA, and nation
- College will be less affordable
- Discourages participation in higher education
- Discourages employer investment in employee learning
- Decreases US competitiveness
- Brightest minds will go outside of the US to advance
- Elimination of Section 117(d) provisions
- Devastating to research programs
- No longer able to provide tax-free tuition for graduate students
- Example: stipend of $24K and tuition waiver of $29K – student’s tax bill triples to $4,920
- Erodes progress made in developing strong interest in STEM programs
- Puts STEM education out of the reach of many students
- Our legislators
- Senator Tim Kaine
231 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington DC 20510
(202) 224-4024
kaine.senate.gov/contact - Senator Mark R. Warner
703 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington DC 20510
(202) 224-2023
warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Contact - Thomas Garrett
415 Cannon House Office Building, Washington DC 20515-4605
(202) 225-4711
https://tomgarrett.house.gov/email-congressman-tom-garrett
- Senator Tim Kaine
- Themes of Incoming UVA President Ryan
- Community: opportunity to interact with and learn from a broadly diverse group of students, faculty, staff
- Discovery: new knowledge that solves problems, leads to practical application, and brings new perspective to enduring questions
- Service: public universities serve the public, starting with their own states
- New Strategic Hire: Ken Walsh, PhD. Professor of CV Medicine and Director, Whitaker CV Institute, at Boston University SOM. Starts January 25, 2018. $.9M year one, $3.5M over five years.
- Negative impact upon our students, UVA, and nation
Overview of Equal Opportunity & Civil Rights Policies and Reporting Options
Catherine Spear, AVP Equal Opportunity & Civil Rights
Emily Babb, AVP for Title IX Compliance & Title IX Coordinator
- Presentation addressed:
- Notice of non-discrimination and equal opportunity
- Policy of Sexual and Gender-Based Harassment and Other Forms of Interpersonal Violence (Title IX Policy)
- Preventing and Addressing Discrimination and Harassment (PADH Policy) and Preventing and Addressing Retaliation (PAR Policy)
- Why reporting is important
- How to report prohibited conduct under these policies
- How to address prohibited conduct
- See presentation.
December Health System Board Update
A. Bobby Chhabra, MD, Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery
- Dr. Chhabra shared highlights from the December 6, 2017, HSB meeting. The HS goals dashboard showed notable improvement in solid organ and bone marrow transplants and addition investments by Seed & Venture Funds, moving these two indicators to green. All other categories are yellow.
- FY18 first-quarter financial results were shared.
The next meeting will be Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, in the BIMS Classroom.
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