Three-fourths, or 38 states, must ratify an amendment for it to become part of the U.S. Constitution. However, the Constitution does not give a specific time period for when an amendment must be ratified, according to James Monroe Professor of Law Saikrishna Prakash at the University of Virginia School of Law. "There was some requirement that proposal and ratification occur relatively close in time to each other," Prakash said.
Stanford University professor Caroline Hoxby and UVA professor Sarah Turner have found that the schools that have made the most progress in increasing their numbers of Pell-eligible students appear to be doing so partly at the expense of other low-income students — specifically, those whose families make just a few too many dollars to qualify for Pell grants.
Christopher Ruhm, an economist at the University of Virginia, has a few theories as to why mortality rates drop during a recession. There are fewer job-related accidents, and people drive less to work, which improves overall air quality. People also have less money to spend on alcohol and cigarettes, as well as more time for sleep and recreation.
Using Sen and Bonica’s system, judicial appointees are scored based on political donations they have made in the past. As the thinking behind these scores goes, if appointees have donated to liberal candidates, then they are more likely to be liberal themselves. University of Virginia’s Joshua Fischman warned that these scores could also fail to capture important nuances. “The CF scores are good measures of judicial ideology, but they aren’t perfect,” he said. “They clearly show that Trump has appointed conservative judges, but I’m not sure if the differences between Trump and Bush appointees ...
“This is potentially a big deal” because the justices gave an open invitation for litigants to present the question of whether the court should overrule that decision, said UVA law professor Douglas Laycock, who has written extensively about religious liberty law, said.
(Commentary) For reform ideas, we can build on proposals from UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato, author of “A More Perfect Constitution.” The Senate should return to the Madisonian ideal of enlightened statesmen serving the country, rather than tyranny by the minority.
A separate study conducted by researchers at the University of Virginia found that two prominent research-image collections — ImSitu and COCO, the latter of which is cosponsored by Facebook, Microsoft and startup MightyAI — displayed gender bias in their depiction of sports, cooking and other activities. (Images of shopping, for example, were linked to women, while coaching was associated with men.)
The University of Virginia recently began construction of its Memorial to Enslaved Laborers on the Charlottesville campus.
The Center for Politics hosted the second portion of its 20th annual American Democracy Conference within Alumni Hall at the University of Virginia on Thursday.
Leaders of two of the region’s colleges signed a dual-degree agreement on Monday which will enable qualified students to simultaneously earn a bachelor’s degree at one school while earning a Doctor of Pharmacy degree at the other, shaving two years off the traditional higher education/graduate school path leading to both degrees. The dual degree agreement between UVA’s College at Wise and the Appalachian College of Pharmacy in Oakwood will allow students to complete a bachelor’s degree in three years and then complete a doctor of pharmacy degree in three additional years.
Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe was the keynote speaker at the UVA Center for Politics’ 20th Annual American Democracy Conference on Thursday. McAuliffe’s speech focused on President Donald Trump’s two years in office, and he delivered harsh criticism.
UVA sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox conducted several studies and found that the most reliable indicator of whether a married man is a committed, compassionate husband and father is whether he attends church regularly. He surveyed men with no religious affiliation, men who attend theologically liberal churches, and men who attend theologically conservative churches. The last group tested out as significantly more likely to be affectionate with their children, and are also more involved in disciplining them.
One study looked at the effect of paid leave on employment rates, women’s wages and health outcomes for babies. “The sweet spot was probably six to nine months,” said one of the authors, Christopher J. Ruhm, an economist at the University of Virginia.
A diverse group of political figures converged Thursday at UVA’s American Democracy Conference to discuss the effect of Donald Trump’s presidency and the importance of compromise.
Coming into the Australian Open, 25-year-old American Danielle Collins had never won a Grand Slam match in her career, going 0-5 in her previous attempts. Now, she stands one match away from reaching the final, with two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova awaiting in the next round. It’sa skill Collins developed during her collegiate tennis days at the University of Virginia, the American told press in Melbourne.
She started at the University of Florida, then transferred to the University of Virginia. Collins won two N.C.A.A. singles titles while earning a degree in media studies and making lifelong friends, many of them non-athletes.
A little over a year after the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, taxes are at the forefront of legislators’ minds during the short 2019 General Assembly session. UVA professor George Yin, who has served on the nonpartisan U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation, said residents in rural Virginia have a choice with the proposals.
If you’ve found yourself buried under crushing law school debt and working inhumane hours identifying and properly Bluebooking a sushi memo, you’ll find it hard to believe that there’s a law school out there boasting a 91 percent life satisfaction score from its alumni 30 years out. And yet, that’s exactly what’s happening at the University of Virginia.
Professor Joseph Allen, who led the study from the University of Virginia, said: 'In spite of the emphasis teens put on adolescent romantic relationships, they turn out not to be the most important predictor of future romantic success. 'Instead it's the skills learned in friendships with peers of the same gender - skills such as stability, assertiveness, intimacy, and social competence -that correspond most closely to the skills needed for success in adult romantic relationships.'
Leslie Odom Jr. had his first glimpse of what would become “Hamilton” in a 100-seat black box theater in Poughkeepsie, New York. He was hooked from the first 16 bars. “It’s what falling in love feels like for me,” he said Saturday at the John Paul Jones Arena. University of Virginia President Jim Ryan talked with Odom about the theater, fatherhood and failing as part of a wide-ranging discussion. The event was part of UVA’s 2019 Community MLK Celebration and the UVA President’s Speaker for the Arts series.