The job of chief executive officer pays well — and even better when an incumbent CEO is working with a newly hired CFO. Researchers at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and UVA studied more than 23 years of data from S&P 1500 firms. They found that CEOs took home an average of 10% more compensation when working with a finance chief who was hired after them (known as a “co-opted” CFO).
Author and cultural critic Roxane Gay will be the keynote speaker for the 2020 Community MLK Celebration in January. The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 23 at the Paramount Theater. A free pre-event reception will begin at 5:30 p.m. The event is presented by the University of Virginia Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
The leader of Ohio State University’s College of Medicine is leaving the Columbus university for the University of Virginia. K. Craig Kent, dean of the College of Medicine, will become executive vice president for health affairs at the University of Virginia, overseeing UVA Health. His first day at UVA will be Feb. 1. He joined Ohio State in 2016.
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has named Laura Minton curator of exhibitions. Minton joins the Fralin from Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Minton expands a curatorial department at the Fralin that includes Hannah Cattarin, who was also recently promoted to assistant curator. Cattarin served as curatorial assistant at the museum prior to her promotion.
Tuition rates are increasing 3.6% at the University of Virginia. The Board of Visitors on Friday set tuition and fee rates for the 2020-21 academic year.
(Editorial) Thumbs up to leaders of the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary who announced a partnership this week between the two institutions to reach a goal of carbon neutrality by 2030, a mere 10 years in the future.
Not only was the 93-yard touchdown play Olamide Zaccheaus’ first touchdown, it was also the first catch of the UVA grad’s career. Zaccheaus set an NFL record for longest first catch, according to Elias Sports.
(Commentary co-written by Dewey G. Cornell, Bunker Chair in UVA’s Curry School of Education and Human Development) Over the past 18 years, controlled studies at the University of Virginia found that well-trained multidisciplinary school teams have resolved thousands of student threats without any serious injuries, and at the same time have been able to help troubled students and keep them in school.
Physicists at UVA are building a key component to one of the largest and most complex physics experiments ever conducted in the United States. It could rewrite the physics books.
“There’s this big debate about how Democrats don’t win that many counties because they tend to self-sort themselves into urban areas,” says J. Miles Coleman, an associate at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia. “It’s kind of reversed in Georgia and Texas: The Republicans have basically maxed out their share in the rural areas.”
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.
Northam created a nine-member commission chaired by Chief Deputy Attorney General of Virginia Cynthia Hudson to issue recommendations as to how the state should deal with such laws. In addition to Hudson, the commission’s members include Andrew Block, director of the State and Local Government Policy Clinic at the UVA School of Law
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.
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan today announced the appointment of Dr. K. Craig Kent as executive vice president for health affairs, effective Feb. 1, 2020.
The University of Virginia has announced a new executive vice president for health affairs. Dr. K. Craig Kent, current dean of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, will take the position starting Feb. 1, according to a news release from UVA.
The University held its 19th annual Lighting of the Lawn Thursday to kick off the holiday season.
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.
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.
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.
The nine-member commission had help combing through the laws from students at Virginia Commonwealth University and the law schools at the University of Richmond and the University of Virginia.