It is rare in Virginia for public officials to face removal, said Bob Gibson, executive director of the University of Virginia's Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership. "It is not so rare in other states, but we have had the good fortune of mostly electing honest folks," Gibson said. The rarity likely explains why the law does not specify sex crimes as grounds to remove someone from office.
Concerns from the state’s community college system might have killed one of two college governance reform bills championed by Del. R. Steven Landes, but he hopes to save his legislation.
Eric Rebellato, 17, was in trouble heading into 2016. He was several hundred thousand dollars in debt and proceeds from his cattle business totaled a meager $6,000. Then the Monticello High School senior discovered policy incentives for sustainable farming. Monticello science teacher Jeremy Dove looked on with a smile. Rebellato's “aha” moment about the intersection of commerce, policy and environmentalism was at the heart of Saturday's Bay Game at the University of Virginia.
(Editorial) The Charlottesville situation has generated discussion about the roles state universities play in higher education and about higher education more generally. All colleges confront these challenges. Ayers does not speak for himself alone.
Rejection came with a compliment for Grace E. Harris. “I wish I could take you here,” the director of social work at Richmond Professional Institute told Harris at the end of an interview he had conducted on behalf of Boston University. It was 1954, a time when Virginia and other Southern states preferred to pay for African-American graduate students to study out of state rather than to integrate. She would return from Boston University to complete her master’s degree at RPI, now Virginia Commonwealth University (in addition to master’s and doctoral degrees at the Unive...
The General Assembly sets the portion of the president’s base pay that is funded by taxpayers, but governing boards generously augment that amount from other university funds. Some boards also approve contracts entitling presidents to additional compensation through incentive pay for doing their jobs or retention bonuses for not quitting.
Alison Hall first went to Italy 12 years ago while she was an art student at Hollins University. Now an art teacher herself, at Hollins and the University of Virginia, Hall's gone back to Italy every summer, and visited both the St. Francis of Assisi chapel and the Arena Chapel in Padua, where Giotto also contributed frescoes. Her visits to those chapels provided the inspiration for "Alison Hall: Pilgrimage," which opened Jan. 29, the first of five new exhibitions at the Taubman Museum of Art.
(Commentary by E. Franklin Dukes, director of U.Va.’s Institute for Environmental Negotiation) Now that Rector Helen Dragas has won reappointment to the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, calls for reconciliation have reappeared from some legislators and board members.
(Commentary by Elizabeth Dobbins, a third-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law) The brightly colored Valentine's Day goodies abounding in grocery stores this time of year remind me of my favorite famous romance: Abigail and John Adams.
Bad news for big kahunas: CEOs in the United States are not overpaid, at least not compared with their peers worldwide. So says an article co-written by a U.Va. biz prof in this month’s Review of Financial Studies. Pedro Matos, an associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School, studied CEO pay at 3,200 companies from 2003 to 2008.
But back to Brendan. Republicans are putting out the narrative that he owes his job as U.S. attorney to his father. That it was all a big setup for Brendan to assume the family political dynasty. Larry Sabato, the political wizard at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, thinks it’s a narrative that could hinder the younger Johnson. “If Brendan Johnson does run, he’ll have to carve out his own identity,” Sabato told me. “Other than party, that’s his biggest problem.”
Daniel John Meador, a renowned University of Virginia law professor known for his work in establishing a new federal appeals courts, died Saturday at age 86 after a short illness.
(Editorial) Discouraging. Community college interests might have dealt a deathblow to one of two bills by Del. R. Steven Landes, R-Weyers Cave, to reform college and university governance in the wake of last year’s leadership crisis at the University of Virginia.
I remember driving across the Tar Heel State back in the ’80s, en route from my home in Virginia to the home place in Graniteville. It was common then to see bumper stickers that read, “Honk if you’re from Carolina; moo if y’all fum State.” “Carolina,” north of the border, meant the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The bumper sticker was considered a put-down for North Carolina State, the proud institution in Raleigh, just a few miles from the hallowed grounds at Chapel Hill. It is to the Tar Heels what Clemson is to the Gamecocks. Today &n...
But false confessions aren’t just a strange anomaly—they’re a phenomenon that’s beginning to get attention by criminal justice experts and legal academics. In his book “Convicting the Innocent: Where Prosecutions Go Wrong,” Brandon L. Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia, looked at 250 cases in which innocent people were cleared by DNA evidence, including 40 in which there were false confessions.
"Presidents have very limited ability to motivate Congress by going over their heads to the American people," said Russell Riley, an expert on presidential rhetoric at the University of Virginia.
Bonding over college antics at the University of Virginia and a love for Southern cocktails, Eric Prum and Joshua Williams were also building a business relationship that ultimately led them to their Mason Shaker. The concept of using a mason jar as a cocktail shaker was refined over a two-year period, and it took less than a month to generate almost $80,000 on Kickstarter.
"If I was giving the speech, I'd hit immigration last because that's an issue that seems to have real bipartisan possibilities," said Sidney Milkis, a political scientist at the University of Virginia.
The mood of the country was cautious optimism, says Edward Lengel, editor-in-chief of the George Washington Papers at the University of Virginia. "Washington appeared steady at the helm, and government appeared to be working with reasonable efficiency."
The University of Virginia is hosting Senator Mark Warner Monday for a discussion on the nation's debt crisis. The senator's visit is part of the student-run ‘Up to Us' campaign.