Tony Bennett was at peace. At first inclined to accept the University of Virginia's head basketball coaching position, he had elected to remain at Washington State, a program he had steered to new heights and a school he had come to embrace. But as Bennett dialed Cavaliers athletic director Craig Littlepage, his wife, Laurel, interrupted. "Put the phone down."
(By Alec Horniman, a professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business) The big idea: The aftermath of China’s Cultural Revolution in 1981 was pervasive and devastating. It created an absence of education and training, leaving the nation desperate for people with various abilities. Only reopened public universities and colleges provided higher education. The Education Bureau launched a new form of education called the Self Teaching Diploma Exam. People could study on their own, pass a test and earn a diploma. Thousands tried — only 6 percent passed.
On Friday morning students at the University of Virginia School of Medicine gathered with their families and friends for Match Day. During the event the UVa. School of Medicine Class of 2015 learned where they will continue their education.
A University of Virginia student who was bloodied during an arrest by a state liquor control agent says in a statement read by his attorney that he kept wondering how such a thing could happen. Martese Johnson appeared at a news conference Thursday evening, accompanied by his attorney who read a statement from the injured man.
The University of Virginia campus is at the center of an uproar again after the arrest of Martese Johnson, a student whose bloody face was broadcast widely on social media on Wednesday and presented as a symbol of brutality against young black men. Abraham Axler, UVa's incoming Student Council president, who takes office next week, has helped organize a meeting between students and state public-safety officials, set for Friday.
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan said Thursday the administration might need to rethink its relationship with Virginia’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
University of Virginia's student council announced plans to bring representatives from Virginia's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to campus for a public forum. The meeting will feature questions from the audience in Newcomb Theater at 1 p.m. Friday. Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo, Albemarle County Police and University Police will join the forum within walking distance of the university's iconic Rotunda.
Virginia lawmakers and the president of University of Virginia are calling for a reexamination of Virginia’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control’s arrest powers.
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan has voiced shock and indignation at the image of a bloodied student in a violent arrest this week outside a bar here. A 20-year-old African American, Martese Johnson, was arrested by white police officers who work for the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
Just when the national spotlight seemed to have shifted away, the University of Virginia is reeling again.Students took to a campus amphitheater Wednesday night and to social media Thursday in protest after the violent arrest of a black student by white law enforcement officers was caught on video that depicted the incident in bloody detail.
Virginia senators Timothy M. Kaine and Mark R. Warner have joined those voicing unease after the bloody arrest of a University of Virginia student early Wednesday morning.
Virginia Democratic Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner are both calling for an investigation into a recent arrest of a black honor student at the University of Virginia that left his faced bloodied and in need of stitches.
A database listing the names of all college students expelled for sexual offenses. Campus-wide alerts issued for every report of a sexual assault. And a state grant program to foster research on gender-based violence. Allen W. Groves, dean of students for the University of Virginia, said a student could easily obtain multiple official transcripts before a notation was added to the record.
The importance of reading to children from birth. Kindergarten readiness. The various approaches to teaching reading. All of those issues have been much in the news of late (and they’re never far from the minds of parents of young children), so my “Parent-Teacher Conference” email folder is full of questions about early literacy. Fortunately, Daniel T. Willingham’s new book, “Raising Kids Who Read,” was published this month, and it addresses every single one of them. Dr. Willingham is a professor of psychology at the University of Vi...
“In politics, increasingly, candidates and officials are being held responsible for the comments — past and present — of anyone they employ. Staffers can also be connected to all those candidates who have employed them in the past, and they can be criticized for out-of-the-mainstream positions taken by their past employers,” said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. And with social media providing a nearly inescapable catalog of every position someone has ever taken, it’s hard for staff to run away from the statements of their...
When George Washington University Professor of Computer Science Rachelle Heller talks about women in academic STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), she makes a careful distinction: Although they face many issues, they’re not barriers, but challenges. “As you move up the academic ladder, in terms of institutional prestige and degree level, women’s representation tends to be lower,” says Joanne Cohoon, associate professor in the Science, Technology and Society department at the University of Virginia. “People are misled by the numbers. If you aggregate t...
(By Siva Vaidhyanathan, the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia) The next time you order one of those faux-Italian-named sweetened coffee drinks at a Starbucks store, you are likely to receive a cup with the hash-tagged words “Race Together” written on it, just above your misspelled name. If you ask the Starbucks employee what it’s about, she or he will tell you that it’s part of a new corporate initiative to inspire customers to discuss racial issues with employees and among themselves.
We’ve all heard the popular American rhyme about relationships: First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage. The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia published a study called “Before ‘I Do’” and found that what couples do before they say ‘I do’ actually matters — and that premarital experiences from the past could end up haunting them long into marital bliss.
The governor of Virginia has ordered the Virginia State Police to investigate the bloody arrest of Martese Johnson, a black University of Virginia student, after photos and video of the arrest went viral across social media with #JusticeForMartese, which later sparked a protest on campus Wednesday evening.