When Gov. Bob McDonnell ceremonially signed the Top Jobs Act last week, he was dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s on a state policy that’s been welcomed by the Charlottesville area’s growing institutions of higher learning. “The university shares the governor’s enthusiasm for increasing the number of Virginians receiving college degrees,” said University of Virginia spokeswoman Carol Wood. The law, which bears the prodigious name Preparing for the Top Jobs of the 21st Century: The Virginia Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2011, calls for an additi...