Newport News, York County, Isle of Wight, James City County and Gloucester are growing, while Hampton, Williamsburg, Poquoson and Mathews are stable or shrinking, according to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.Hampton lost 69 residents, shrinking by 0.05 percent to total 136,879.Population estimates can vary, though, depending on methodology. The University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service estimates Hampton's July 1, 2014 population higher than the Census Bureau did, at 138,545, said Hampton spokeswoman Robin McCormick.
A residence hall that will house 200 first-year University of Virginia students this fall will bear the name of two former slaves who went on to become prominent members of the Charlottesville community. The Board of Visitors voted to name the five-story hall Gibbons House, after William and Isabella Gibbons. The dorm is scheduled for completion this summer.
For Virginians in financial need, leaders of the state’s flagship university just approved what amounts to a cut of up to $10,000 in the price of a bachelor’s degree. To engineer this feat, the University of Virginia will raise annual tuition an extra $1,000 for in-state students beginning at Charlottesville this year. For the incoming class the following year, in fall 2016, this extra charge — beyond regular tuition growth — will grow to $2,000.
A new sexual assault prevention program called Green Dot just kicked off at the University of Virginia. As a result hundreds of people are walking around Charlottesville wearing green dots. Organizers for the kickoff event include several people mentioned in the now-discredited Rolling Stone article alleging a culture of rape at UVA.
(By Robert M. O’Neil) As one of two living former presidents of the University of Virginia, I take exception to the headlines on Petula Dvorak’s March 24 Metro column, “A new ‘Charlottesville Curse’ that’s getting worse each day.” I have never been a victim of the “Charlottesville Curse.” I lament the charge that such a condition is “getting worse each day.” I deplore the university being called “an epicenter for scandal,” as the headline on the column’s continuation put it. I am puzzled by Ms. Dvorak’s d...
Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, agreed. “The Clinton scandal-rama continues, as it has for decades,” he said. “The unanswered question is whether voters have already factored in scandal when judging Hillary. Is it possible to alter dramatically a long-fixed image? We’ll all find out.”
Veteran Middle East scholar William B. Quandt, a former member of the National Security Council, agrees that more Palestinians, especially younger ones, are open to seeking democratic rights within Israel. But he calls the idea more of a "thought experiment" than a clearly thought-out policy, noting there has been a relatively small amount of effort put into figuring out how Israelis and Palestinians would co-exist in a binational state.
Claire Cameron from the Center for the Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning at the University of Virginia confirms that “kindergarten-age girls have far better self-regulation than boys.”
On a recent Sunday morning, it was business as usual at Classified Moto, a custom motorcycle shop in a former mule barn here. In a corner, Matthew Crawford, whose independent custom-parts business is based at the shop, was talking with a reporter about Kant. Motorcycles and philosophy both count as shoptalk for Mr. Crawford, a wiry, soft-spoken 49-year-old decked out that day in a blue workshirt and retro-nerd glasses. (Crawford is a fellow at U.Va.’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture.)
The University of Virginia’s Medical Center Operating Board on Tuesday approved expanding the center’s emergency department into a six-story tower that would provide three floors of private patient rooms and beds in the emergency room with space dedicated to mental health services.
The West Potomac High School softball team honored former teammate Hannah Graham after its season-opening game. Graham, a second-year U.Va. student, died last fall after having gone missing.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe is ordering the Alcoholic Beverage Control to retrain its officers in use of force and in cultural diversity, per an executive order signed Wednesday.
University of Virginia students are pushing the state government to take the power to arrest people away from the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control agents following high-profile incidents involving unarmed students.
Speaking at the U.Va. School of Law, the attorney representing National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden warned against about the future of privacy if citizens aren’t protected from government and corporate overreach.
The Virginia Department of Education is awarding more than $1.6 million in grants to enhance teachers’ knowledge of science and math and their ability to teach the subjects. The department said in a release that nine partnerships between school divisions and colleges and universities won the awards as part of the math and science partnership grant competition. A partnership of the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University received $208,555 to serve 60 teachers in Albemarle County.
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan said today that the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control should not enforce liquor laws against students purchasing illegally but should enforce the laws against establishments that sell to the students.
Students picketed outside the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library shortly after the University of Virginia Board of Visitors finalized a series of planned tuition increases set to take effect this fall.
University of Virginia chief Teresa Sullivan has persevered through an aborted coup, the aftermath of two student murders, a scandal over an alleged gang rape, and the recent fallout from the bloody arrest of a black student by white officers. Does that make her a good leader?
Humans are lazy thinkers. Although the brain comprises only about 2.5 percent of our body weight, it generally uses 20 percent of the body’s energy. That’s why the human learning machine prefers to operate in a low gear — on autopilot — as much as possible: It’s a conservation thing. So (your slothful brain is probably thinking) what’s wrong with that? According to Edward Hess, the big problem is that business has taken the “laziness model” — aka operational excellence — as far as it can go. “The lazy brain is why the operationa...
More than two decades ago, long before the Great Recession wreaked havoc on higher education finances and tuition skyrocketed, David Breneman, currently a professor of economics in education at the University of Virginia, warned educators that liberal arts colleges were on their way out. "The liberal arts college as we know it is disappearing from the landscape, and another type of institution – the professional college – is taking its place" he wrote in 1990. More recent research has also found Breneman's statement to be true – the number of liberal arts c...