The University's Board of Visitors said Friday that it would roll back the previously approved 2.9% increase for 2019-20 and hold base tuition for all in-state undergraduate students at the 2018-19 level for another year.
School violence and shootings add to teachers' already high stress levels, said Patricia Jennings, a UVA professor who studies teacher stress. "It's kind of like the straw that broke the camel's back," she said.
Here comes considerable insight into the 40th president: The University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy will offer a graduate-level course titled “Lessons in Leadership: Reagan,” meant to parse the historical and political context of Ronald Reagan’s presidency – and how it translates to today’s political landscape.
In the mid-20th century, “As marijuana penetrates further into the country, more cities and states start adopting prohibitions, and [they’re] clearly related to immigration – not only from Mexico, but also from the Caribbean,” said Richard Bonnie, a drug policy expert at the University of Virginia School of Law and co-author of “The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States.”
Last spring, the Virginia men’s basketball team suffered one of the most shocking upsets in sports—becoming the first top-seeded team in the history of NCAA’s “March Madness” tournament to lose to a lowest-ranked 16 seed. This April, in the same tournament, Virginia won its first title. That the Cavaliers ascended from humiliation to celebration is a testament to Bennett’s coaching skills. Inheriting a program that attracts relatively few stars, Bennett built a contender by stressing passing and disciplined, stifling defense. And after last year’s defeat, Bennett gave his players leeway to tal...
Tony Bennett, head men’s basketball coach for the University of Virginia Cavaliers, has placed 48/50 in Fortune Magazine’s ‘World’s 50 Greatest Leaders’ article.
Attorney General William Barr launched a strident political defense of the president Thursday shortly before releasing special counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report. Ken Hughes, an expert on Watergate at the University of Virginia, said Barr’s comments on Trump line up with defenses offered by the Nixon White House.
Tapes revealed that President Richard Nixon and his top advisers were involved in covering up a break-in at a Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Nixon resigned before he could be impeached, becoming the first president to step down. Several of his top advisers – including the White House lawyer, chief of staff and attorney general – did prison time. Nominated by: Barbara A. Perry, Director of Presidential Studies and Co-Chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
If former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe tries and succeeds in reaching the Executive Mansion again, he’ll be only the second governor to do so since Virginia began electing governors. Virginia’s current one, four-year term was considered progressive at the time of the passage of the 1851 constitution that put it into code, according to Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
The congressman who represents Akron and the Youngstown area is running for president, but to say Tim Ryan is a dark horse might be an understatement. Kyle Kondik, a northeast Ohio native who is the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball newsletter at UVA’s Center for Politics, talked about Ryan's candidacy.
West Virginia's population loss would likely continue for the next 20 years, according to projections from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. In the 1990s, a high immigration population and increased birth meant a younger age profile for the nation.
Ivy Tech Community College and the University of Virginia have announced a new partnership. The agreement allows Ivy Tech students who complete the Liberal Arts Associate in Arts or Associate in Science program to continue working toward an online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies through the University of Virginia.
The second-place winners of the Commonwealth Challenge and the Social Impact Challenge were awarded to two teams from the University of Virginia.
Wylie kindly took time away from teaching photography and his work as director of UVA’s Studio Art Department to share by email his creative process, and how he sees Pompeii both through the camera lens and through time. And essentially, what Pompeii means to him.
(By Mark Edmundson, University Professor of English) Though America had been a nation for nearly 80 years, it was incomplete. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution – those were political documents, pragmatic in their designs for democracy. What America lacked was what Emerson called for: an evocation of what being a democratic man or woman felt like at its best, day to day, moment to moment.
“It is not just a movie. It’s a book. It’s a movie. It’s something so very, very special because we’ve never seen this before,” Kornheiser said.
An Antares rocket blasted off on schedule from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Wednesday, en route to the International Space Station, with supplies and with working satellites built by Virginia students. UVA’s Trace LaCour is a fourth-year aerospace and engineering student, who helped build one of the three satellites, that will orbit as a constellation and send back data on atmospheric density and how it causes orbits to decay.
The University of Virginia’s first spacecraft began its trip to the International Space Station on Wednesday afternoon. The small cube launched from Wallops Island aboard a Northrop Grumman rocket.
Kirk Martini, a professor at the UVA School of Architecture, said the transept is probably the greatest vulnerability.
How the economy fares in spring 2020 is likely to play a large role in Trump’s reelection chances, according to election experts such as Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics.