Michigan lawmakers have long discussed adding statewide protections for gay residents, but the latest business-backed effort stalled last week amidst a dispute over transgender-specific language. But those characterizations are “way overblown,” according to University of Virginia School of Law professor Douglas Laycock, a legal scholar and religious liberty advocate who is supporting the Michigan bill.
A recent released report highlights research-driven practices proven effective in public pre-kindergarten programs across the country, and comparing how Texas’ pre-k program stacks up. “Pre-Kindergarten for the Modern Age: A scalable, affordable, high-quality plan for Texas” was prepared by Dr. Robert Pianta, Dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and a leading expert on early childhood education.
University of Virginia School of Law professor Brandon Garrett analyzed data on corporate prosecutions from the last two decades, and while he found that penalties have spiked in the years since the collapse of Enron, he was surprised at how “inconsistent” and “lenient” corporate punishments were, he writes in his book Too Big to Jail.
The University of Virginia on Monday outlined steps it plans to take for campus safety, part of its effort to respond to questions raised in recent weeks following a magazine article about an alleged gang rape at a fraternity.
The University of Virginia’s suspension of social activities at fraternities and sororities will remain in effect until early January despite doubts raised about the magazine article that prompted the action, school officials said Monday.
On Sunday, three national fraternity and sorority organizations called upon the University of Virginia to lift and apologize for its ban of Greek life activities, imposed after the furor surrounding a Rolling Stone article, whose accuracy is now in dispute after the magazine said its reporting was inadequate. In a statement released Monday afternoon, the university neither lifted its suspension of Greek activities nor apologized for it, saying the purpose of the ban was “to give the university and Greek leadership a pause to identify solutions.”
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan outlined a series of changes made at the school and defended the university's staff in the wake of a Rolling Stone article alleging sexual assault at the school.
A 15-member group of University of Virginia faculty, staff, students and parents will take the lead in examining the school’s climate and culture in the wake of Rolling Stone’s shattered account of a fraternity house gang rape.
The University of Virginia on Monday set out the first steps of a new student safety plan, especially for survivors of sexual assault, days after Rolling Stone magazine backtracked on its story about an alleged gang rape at a fraternity.
It's estimated that only a fraction of campus sexual assault victims go to police. Senators want to know why. A Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Tuesday focused on the role of law enforcement in campus sexual assault cases. The hearing comes in the wake of a Rolling Stone article describing a gang rape alleged to have occurred in a fraternity house at the University of Virginia.
The magazine that had devoted so much room to a story on campus rape was explaining that it hadn’t contacted the alleged attackers or corroborated many crucial elements of the story. Now, it appeared to be blaming the inaccuracies on Jackie. They threw a vulnerable young woman under the bus, and what does that say to other survivors, who often struggle with decisions about how and whether to report?
Rolling Stone has amended a statement published Friday about its widely criticized story detailing an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity.
Rolling Stone magazine has revised its apology to readers about an article on an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. The apology was originally posted Friday on the magazine website and said of Jackie, the woman who described the alleged rape, "Our trust in her was misplaced." In the updated apology, those words have been removed. The magazine said of its reporting errors, "These mistakes are on Rolling Stone, not on Jackie."
Two weeks ago hundreds of University of Virginia professors and graduate students marched on the Beta Bridge to protest sexual violence. Saturday we spoke with one of those professors, Ira Bashkow, about the university's response to Rolling Stone magazine saying they now doubt the account of Jackie.
State legislative leaders aren’t backing off plans to tackle reporting of sexual violence on university and college campuses, even though Rolling Stone magazine has cast doubt on its account of a fraternity gang rape at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia fraternity at the center of a gang-rape allegation detailed in a Rolling Stone article issued a statement rebutting the story Friday following an apology made by magazine, which acknowledges discrepancies in the report.
New York is increasingly drawing more academically capable teachers, reflecting improvements in the status of the teaching profession, concludes recently released research on the state's teaching force. The study, by Hamilton Lankford (University of Albany), Susanna Loeb (Stanford University), Andrew McEachin (North Carolina State University), Luke C. Miller, and James Wyckoff (both of the University of Virginia), was published in the December edition of Educational Researcher.
Right now and for the next several months, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees will be chipping away at creating a process to implement the unilateral immigration plan, called DAPA, that Obama laid out last month. "There were some glitches, but it was handled reasonably well," said Martin, a University of Virginia law professor. Compared with the program announced last month, DACA is clearly a less complex operation.
Much about federal prosecution of corporate crime remains murky, but Brandon L. Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor, sheds considerable light on the topic in his new book, “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations.”
Claudia Emerson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate of Virginia, died early Thursday from complications associated with colon cancer. She was 57.