(Commentary) For liberalism’s founding thinkers, the University of Virginia politics professor Rita Koganzon argues convincingly in her recent book, “Liberal States, Authoritarian Families,” the solution to the problem of children was to build an apparent contradiction into liberalism itself. “When we consider Locke’s and Rousseau’s understanding of authority over children,” she writes, “we might see more clearly both how indispensable personal authority is to liberty, and what that authority’s limits are.”
In 1975, UVA psychologist Stephen Worchel first identified Scarcity Bias in what could be the most delicious scientific study ever undertaken. First, researchers split 134 university students into two groups. One group was given a cookie from a full jar. In comparison, the other group received their biscuit from a jar that had minimal cookies. The students were then asked to rate the cookies for attractiveness and how much they’d pay for them. The cookies perceived to be in short supply were rated more highly. It showed that participants were willing to pay 25 percent more for them. The ...
Only about 2% of America’s teachers are Black men. According to a new study, one reason for the small numbers may be that Black male teachers face bias from administrators who monitor classroom performance and give them poor evaluations. This, in turn, may lead to lower job satisfaction among Black male teachers, fewer promotions, and more Black men leaving the teaching profession. The study was co-authored by Jason Grissom, the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy and Education at Vanderbilt University, and Brendan Bartanen, an assistant professor of education at the University ...
(Commentary) In a result that says something about the divisions at hand, 52% of Trump voters and 41% of Biden voters said that they at least “somewhat agree” that it’s time to split the country, with either red or blue states leaving the union and forming their own country, according to a survey conducted by the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Omar Garriott is writing a book to help college students and professionals of all ages get the job of their dreams. He is the author of “Linked: Conquer LinkedIn, Get Your Dream Job, Own Your Future,” with the goal of helping others utilize LinkedIn to get ahead. He says his book has hundreds of ways to use LinkedIn’s tools to land the job that is right for you. He is even teaching seminars at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business to help students be proactive and get started.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business 2021 MBA employment report is out. UVA Darden’s MBA Class of 2021 navigated a challenging job market with record success, continuing a streak of record-breaking salary numbers, and increasing its presence in key industries.
In an odd way, former President Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House proved good for Hogan in terms of raising his profile, said J. Miles Coleman, a political analyst and editor at the UVA Center for Politics. Hogan’s willingness to throw barbs at the president made him a favorite guest on some national television programs and a leading voice of dissent within the party.
Women in Science Day was celebrated internationally on Friday, and women in STEM are leading the way to life-saving research at the University of Virginia.
Lauren Garcia, a sociology Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia, takes issue with the “performance” of the academic meeting — an obsession with institutions, titles, and connections — that she has seen play out when scholars gather in person. Garcia, who earned her master’s under the tutelage of Tressie McMillan Cottom, a MacArthur Fellow who now teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says she noticed people responded to her differently when she mentioned McMillan Cottom was her adviser at conference sign-in tables. “If you are not in an elite institution or didn’t ...
Megan Sullivan, of Burke, a Junior at the University of Virginia, will compete in the Jeopardy! National College Championship against some of the nation’s brightest undergraduates. Sullivan, a 2019 graduate of Robinson Secondary School, will appear in the last quarter-final episode airing on Feb. 16. She and her competitors, who know the outcome from filming last November in Los Angeles have been sworn to secrecy, but the outcome soon will be known to all.
A new chair has been appointed at the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Paola A. Gehrig will begin her new role as chair of the department on June 27, according to a news release.
The plus side is that the federal largesse protects Virginia from extreme economic downturns. The downside is Virginia is beholden to Washington. Economists say the state was slammed in the past decade by a federal sequestration program that automatically cut defense and domestic spending when Congress could not agree on a budget. “Virginia’s becoming a mature state with slow but steady growth,” said Terry Rephann, regional economist with the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
At this stage in the election cycle, Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said the choice to appear with the president in a part of the state he won to discuss a part of his agenda that is wildly popular was an “obvious one” for U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger. He cautioned that much could change before November. “But if this were October, with these kinds of ratings,” Sabato said, “I think she’d have a scheduling conflict.”
(Audio) As new congressional district lines are redrawn, Democrats and Republicans alike battle for representation across the country. The new maps are being brought to state courts to determine whether gerrymandering is at play, given that Democrats seem to be at a redistricting advantage. Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, analyzes the maps and explains how this could possibly affect future elections.
“It’s 50/50 what [Louisiana Gov. John Bel] Edwards is going to do,” J. Miles Coleman of the University of Virginia Center for Politics said. “Other than veto, [Edwards] could just let it come to law without a signature if he doesn’t want to pick any fights and he wants to kind of keep his hands clean.” Creating a redistricting dispute against the GOP-backed map could set back other funding priorities of the governor, Coleman said.
Michael Gilbert, director of the University of Virginia School of Law’s Center for Public Law and Political Economy who specializes in campaign finance, said that federal limits on corporate PAC donations exist to prevent companies from wielding undue influence over a lawmaker. Gilbert said that, on the federal level, it makes sense that lawmakers are responsive to some degree to business needs, particularly if they matter to the economy in a lawmaker’s district. “Lots of people in politics and beyond I think would say it’s perfectly reasonable to take these contributions,” Gilbert said. “Thos...
(Commentary) University of Virginia President James Ryan has argued, “The best reform in the world, on paper, will be useless without sufficient political support to sustain its implementation.” It’s just to believe in righteous fights. Yet, public policy needs consensus. We are otherwise wasting time and money.
As a result of Jackie Kennedy’s work, the White House itself and the artwork and artifacts inside it are now preserved by the National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution. But before the Kennedys, upkeep of these historic treasures was “idiosyncratic and non-routinized,” says Barbara A. Perry, the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and author of “Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier.” “When presidents would come and go, they could just take things with them or sell things off,” Perry says. “The tragedy of it in terms of preserv...
While there is, if anything, a glut of PhD graduates on the labour market, many cannot find academic jobs. Top business schools want to hire PhDs only from the best programmes, but this talent pool has not grown in line with the rising demand for business education in recent decades. “Supply has not changed much, but demand has increased,” says Sankaran Venkataraman, senior associate dean for faculty and research at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. “Schools are very careful about who they hire. Provenance is important.”
The pandemic has turned many people’s dining room tables into workplaces. Attorneys are no exception. What’s more, no one expects the legal industry to return to the pre-pandemic norm. A recent survey by the American Bar Association revealed that only 23% of the lawyers surveyed wanted to return to the office full time. These survey results were shared by professor Ben Sachs of the University of Virginia School of Law at the Practising Law Institute’s program, “Managing Remote and Hybrid Legal Teams: Tactics to Thrive and Lead in the New World of Work.”