"At the University of Virginia, news of the earthquake in Haiti on Tuesday struck home.
Stephanie Jean-Charles, a 22-year-old Haitian graduate student at UVa.'s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy who worked in Haiti, died Tuesday of head injuries at her family’s home in Port-au-Prince.
'This is a real tragedy for us,' says university spokesman Dan Heuchert, adding that the school plans a memorial service Thursday and is coordinating its own relief project.
Similar relief responses are being replicated at schools throughout the country, notably at historically Black colleges and universities. Faculty and students are raising money for CARE and other relief groups, gathering nonperishable food and clothing, planning their own medical care trips to Haiti and holding teach-ins."