Leading up to the report’s release, the researchers invited groups of students, faculty members, administrators, and others for face-to-face discussions on four campuses that have been flashpoints for free-speech controversies: the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Virginia, Middlebury College, and the University of Maryland at College Park. See the key conclusions they came away with.
The following statement has been repeated so often among the edtech community that it almost sounds like a broken record: Educators should have more say in decisions around purchasing and implementing education technology. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative wants to turn that refrain into a reality. And this week, it is putting money where its mouth is, by way of a two-year, $1.6 million grant it has awarded to the Jefferson Education Exchange, a nonprofit based out of UVA’s Curry School of Education.
Board members also approved a resolution allowing the university to acquire the University of Virginia’s entire interest in the Virginia Tech/University of Virginia Northern Virginia Center in Falls Church, and to acquire the fee simple title interest in the 5.33-acre parcel currently leased from and owned by the City of Falls Church. Total cost for these transactions will be approximately $11 million. Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia opened the Northern Virginia Center 1996 to deliver graduate education instruction in several academic degree programs.
This course from the University of Virginia provides a comprehensive understanding of the legacy that John F. Kennedy left behind. It covers JFK’s rise to power, presidency and assassination, and explains how these momentous events have had a long-lasting impact on the public, media and presidents who came after him.
The Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad is feeling the effects of a shortage of EMTs, but the 100 percent volunteer organization is counting on UVA students to continue filling the gap.
As a basketball lifer, UMBC coach Ryan Odom marveled at Virginia and Purdue on Saturday night, quality programs hunting an elusive Final Four amid breathtaking tension. “Champions always answer,” Odom said. “That’s what we say around our place, and they both just kept answering one another. It was incredible, absolutely incredible, a joy to watch.” But Odom’s take on the Cavaliers’ overtime victory goes far deeper. Tthe result brings him the unfettered happiness he couldn’t derive from his signature professional accomplishment.
In 1969, James R. Roebuck arrived at a University of Virginia that was still considered a gentleman’s university and was reluctantly enrolling black graduate and undergraduate students. Roebuck enrolled in UVA’s graduate philosophy program and became the Student Council’s first African-American president. He discussed his efforts to force university administrators to support black students and enroll women at a UVA symposium on March 22.
Jennifer Lawless, a professor at the University of Virginia, said that the gender biases in politics are more subtle now but still exist. Men aren’t explicitly sexist or discriminatory, she said, but they sometimes diminish or belittle women’s accomplishments. “Regardless of his intent, there are gendered implications if this is a woman with these credentials,” Lawless said.
Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.) can ask for copies of Donald Trump’s federal tax returns whenever he wants, but Neal is in no hurry and seemingly doesn’t care if Democrats don’t get the documents before the next election. Neal can request any American’s tax info thanks to a specific section of the tax code that grants that power to the chairs of congressional tax committees. George Yin, a tax expert at the UVA School of Law, said he is unaware of any instance of a treasury secretary refusing to comply with a request under the law, which Congress has rarely used since it was enacted in 1924.
Jennifer Lawless, a UVA professor focused on gender and politics, said it is fortunate for Biden that the alleged encounter with Flores took place in 2014, before the #MeToo movement.
In the last 20 years, Virginia has lost almost 140,000 manufacturing jobs. That’s a 36 percent decline for a sector that once offered blue-collar jobs and formed a staple of the commonwealth’s economy. Kyaw Khine at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service says the numbers offer a paradox.
Harris was the first African-American woman to become California attorney general, the first African-American senator California has ever elected, and the second African-American woman to sit on the Senate’s powerful Judiciary Committee. “I would think in a national Democratic primary, part of Harris’ path to victory is doing what Obama did: performing strongly in the South, where African-American support is so important,” says UVA’s Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball.
Last fall, as part of the long run-up to the 2020 census, UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service reviewed the Census Bureau’s existing address file for 101 of the state’s 133 localities and compared it to what localities had on file. In its review, the center found 33,555 new addresses, which is like saying it possibly found 70,000 new Virginians who otherwise wouldn’t have been counted.
A partnership between Albemarle County, the city of Charlottesville and UVA is helping to connect job-seekers to employers in the area. They have developed a program called Embark, which helps recruit potential employees to different area businesses.
Twenty-four schools reserve their no-loans policy for their lowest-income students. Each policy sets criteria for qualifying: University of Virginia: Household income up to 200 percent of the poverty line.
(Commentary) This is the column I was going to write last year. This is the column I never had a chance My alma mater, the University of Virginia, is going to the Final Four for the first time in 35 years after a thrilling OT win in the Elite Eight against Purdue’s hardy Boilermakers.
Why did Facebook air live video of the New Zealand mosque shooting for 17 minutes? Didn’t anyone alert the company while it was happening? Facebook says no. “When we see things through our phones, we imagine that they are like a television show,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. “They are at a distance, and we have no power.”
Data scientists and women in related careers gathered at UVA on Friday to share lessons learned working and leading others in the field. The panel was part of a daylong Women in Data Science event hosted by UVA’s Data Science Institute.