The industry has been “treading water,” said UVA professor Martin Davidson, who has consulted with banks on their diversity programs. “Firms that are built and developed in ways that support and privilege predominantly white male managers and leaders – cultures that are built so they move people who fit that prototype – will always continue to nurture those kinds of people,” he said.

The UVA Board of Visitors Friday morning approved a 3.6% tuition and mandatory fee increase for the next academic year that board rector James Murray calls “tentative” until the General Assembly passes a budget in March. Last year, the board passed a similar increase for this academic year – but rescinded it after the 2019 General Assembly approved paying state colleges and universities a one-time stipend in exchange for not raising tuition and fees. 

While it's clearly two different presidents, there are some similarities in their conduct says Russell Riley, co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at UVA’s Miller Center of Publica Affairs. Riley says both Clinton and Trump survived earlier incidents of questionable conduct only to repeat that behavior. Riley finds another similarity between the two cases.

Larry Sabato from the UVA Center for Politics said the rash of Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions being passed by Virginia counties will be meaningless if they are in conflict with state law. Sabato said counties are trying to send a message to the General Assembly and Gov. Ralph Northam.

The University of Virginia has appointed Dr. K. Craig Kent as executive vice president for health affairs, effective February 1, 2020. Kent will oversee UVA Health and its clinical enterprise.

Moïse gained the favor of the Trump administration in January, when his government voted not to recognize the legitimacy of the regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela at a meeting of the Organization of American States. “The United States wanted one thing from Moïse, and that was a vote from OAS to isolate Maduro, and they got it,” UVA politics professor Robert Fatton said.

Incoming chief executives tend to replace top lieutenants within the first few years of joining a company. New academic research suggests there might be an incentive to do so when it comes to at least one key position: the finance chief. CEOs who appoint their own chief financial officers receive more compensation on average than those who don’t, according to a new study by accounting professors from UVA, Duke University and Cornell University.

A researcher at the UVA School of Medicine has been selected for the American Lung Association's 2019-20 Research Team. Dr. Monica Lawrence is also getting $75,000 to research severe childhood asthma treatments.

As UVA sociologist Brad Wilcox pointed out in a response to Edsall’s column, for all the bright talk about the blue-state, upper-middle-class marriage model, in the aggregate Republicans marry more and divorce less than Democrats, ideological conservatives are much more likely to be married than ideological liberals, and conservatives are more than twice as likely to describe marriage as something “needed” for “strong families.”