Russell M. Nelson's tenure has been marked by "an unusual degree of change in an otherwise very cautious institution," said Kathleen Flake, a professor of Mormon studies at the University of Virginia. She believes many of the changes were considered by past presidents and studied by a governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of which Nelson was a member.
This Dockless Mobility Pilot was adopted by City Council in November and is set to expire July 31. As part of the evaluation process, city staff have partnered with UVA’s Urban and Environmental Planning Program to develop and implement a survey to collect feedback on this program.
A group of UVA faculty on Thursday worked to alleviate concerns about the proposed School of Data Science, voting to move the school one step closer to reality.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what PolitiFact can do for your country. That’s not a John F. Kennedy quote (though it’s close to something the former president said during his inaugural address), and neither is this one that was posted on Facebook on March 30. "There’s a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman and child," reads the text of a photo of what looks like a flyer pasted to a phone pole. "Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot." Marc J. Selverstone, chair of UVA’s Presidential Recordings Program, t...
UVA law professor George Yin said that at first blush, Neal’s letter seemed to meet the relatively modest requirements needed to make the request. “I don’t see any reason not to comply with the request,” said Yin, who has researched the statutory requirements.
Many on Twitter hoped it was at most a half joke, urging him to run. Comey, who lives in McLean, has ruled out running for president. But there could be an opening for him in the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial race if he decided to run for office. “He would have to stake out positions in line with the Democratic primary electorate, as I doubt he would be such an obviously strong candidate that he could clear the primary field in any major race,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics.
The University of Virginia is one of 33 schools participating in a 2019 campus climate survey that aims to gauge the types and frequency of sexual assault and misconduct at universities. The climate survey is designed to measure students’ knowledge and beliefs about social situations and perceptions related to sexual misconduct at UVA. It also aims to determine their knowledge of available resources, according to the school.
University of Virginia President James E. Ryan will deliver the commencement speech for the Class of 2019 at UVA’s College at Wise.
Taxpayer information is legally supposed to remain confidential, but a 1924 provision gives Congress some access. It has rarely been invoked, UVA law professor George Yin told NPR in October 2018.
Kirt von Daacke, an assistant dean and professor of history at UVA who studies race and culture, said blackface photos and other racist imagery are intended by perpetrators to do violence, and releasing them into the public without warning and explanation is "to allow them to do that violence again."
Congestion pricing has the potential to significantly change how traffic flows through Manhattan streets, how commuters get around the city, how companies like Uber and Lyft operate. If the policy spreads it could challenge a deeply embedded cultural idea, requiring people to pay for something Americans have long demanded – and largely believe they’ve gotten – free of charge. UVA historian Peter Norton traces this thinking to the 1920s and ’30s.
University of Virginia students celebrated the Wahoos win over the Purdue Boilermakers on Saturday night at all of the bars on The Corner, including Boylan Heights.
Dick Bennett’s influence is obvious in both teams as they prepare to meet in the national semifinals. It’s an early version of Bennett-ball that Pearl has mimicked in leading Auburn to its first 30-win season and first appearance on college basketball’s final weekend. Virginia, a No. 1 seed for the fourth time in the six years but in its first Final Four, actually is turning over the ball more this season than in past years, but much of that may be because it’s a better offensive team this year. And because of that, Bennett has allowed the team to become a bit more aggressive and — at times — ...
When Ty Jerome's second free throw came off the rim, Virginia needed a lot to happen to come away with a win and fortunately for the Wahoos a lot happened. ESPN's win probability gave the Cavaliers only a 9 percent chance of winning over Purdue, just enough to cover for a Mamadi Diakite top out, a Kihei Clark pass and of course Diakite's game-tying shot. A moment that even days later seems so improbable and shot that not even the man who made it could explain.
Do banks and credit unions make money off the security deposits from secured credit cards? “Yes, banks and credit unions earn money on secured credit cards by lending the funds deposited with them at a higher interest rate than they pay on the deposited funds. The banking business is based on borrowing money from depositors at low rates and lending the money to borrowers at higher rates,” says Dorothy C. Kelly, a professor in UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce.
A state grant of nearly a half-million dollars will help UVA’s Darden School of Business create a program to support fledging small companies. The Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Darden School will receive $475,200 in Growth and Opportunity for Virginia, or GO Virginia, funds from the state.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise Board voted Friday to roll back a 3 percent tuition increase because additional funding approved by the Virginia General Assembly will cover slightly more than what the tuition boost would have provided.
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.