WASHINGTON  A 23-year-old University of Virginia graduate who created a nonprofit group to help tackle the AIDS epidemic in Washington has been named a Rhodes Scholar.

Tyler Spencer's scholarship was announced Sunday. He says a study abroad trip in southern Africa changed his life when he saw the impact of HIV and AIDS on a community in Mozambique.

VIRGINIA BEACH Teacher Gabriel Wetmore pointed out the bathroom mirrors to a group of boys touring the new Renaissance Academy alternative school. "If they break, they won't be replaced," he said. "You ask to be treated like adults, so we're trying to treat you like adults."

By Connie Sage, Correspondent EDENTON, N.C. Visitors - or even prospective students - looking for the College of The Albemarle here can easily miss it. Passers-by along Edenton's main thoroughfare, North Oakum Street, have to look hard to see the one small sign for the community college.

The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg and Mary Washington University in Fredericksburg have approved rare midyear tuition increases to help offset drastic state funding cuts. The William and Mary Board of Visitors voted Friday to increase spring tuition by $300 and eliminate 18 positions, including 12 layoffs, to absorb cuts in state funding.

NEWPORT NEWS U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan planned to tour An Achievable Dream Academy today. With U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott, he planned to observe students and teachers in classrooms.

CHESAPEAKE Three Chesapeake schools are undergoing air-quality testing after the Environmental Protection Agency issued guidelines for how schools built between 1950 and 1978 should handle potentially cancer-causing chemicals probably used in their construction.

CHESAPEAKE Last week, the School Board was tossing around some thoughts about the best way to expand Indian River High School. How big to build it? Should it accommodate 1,750 students, which might create a better learning environment? Or should the school be bigger - 2,100 students, which could save money down the line?

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NORFOLK The School Board is set to vote next month on whether to change a policy that requires city high schools to offer only honors-level social studies courses for first-time freshmen. Board members are likely to choose from three options, all of which allow parents to work with middle school guidance counselors to select the appropriate class before a student enters high school.

Michael Kimmel, sociologist and author of the best-seller "Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men," will speak at 7 p.m. today in the Mills Godwin Jr. Life Sciences Building auditorium at Old Dominion University.