Creating a campus culture that draws clear lines in the sand regarding appropriate sexual behavior requires the combined efforts of students and the administration. It is good that students are spearheading some of the efforts to call attention to sexual assault, its danger and its prevention. But we also want students to know that relying on campus adjudication procedures for something as serious as this is not necessarily the best option.
Some student groups are acting on their own. One in Four, a national non-profit targeting campus sexual assault, now has chapters at more than than a dozen colleges and universities, including the U.S. Naval Academy, The University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Virginia. Their programs are directed at both male and female students.
Seven Society: Founded around 1905, this University of Virginia secret society is extremely secretive and its members are only revealed after their death. However, its presence is clear, with multiple markings of the number seven throughout the campus. It is also known for its philanthropic efforts benefiting the university.
Research has indicated that people are more likely to take a more in-depth approach to learning when they’re trying to answer questions they’ve come to regard as important, he noted. That was true with his Northwestern student, and with Emma Murphy, whose experience at the University of Virginia he noted as well.The instructor of a Russian literature class arranged for Murphy and her classmates to go into a juvenile correctional facility and talk with the boys there about Tolstoy’s short stories, which address such issues as individual commitment to higher goals and the purpo...
In the latest of a string of stops at campuses across the state, U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner on Wednesday pitched proposals to ease student debt.The former governor spoke to about 100 students at the University of Virginia, where tuition has been a hot topic both on Grounds and on the school’s Board of Visitors.“People get crushed in their ability to open a business, start a family, buy a house, and that ripples throughout the whole economy,” Warner said.
Senator Mark Warner visited the University of Virginia Wednesday to address the national student debt crisis. Student debt in the United States is surpassing credit card debt at $1.2 trillion, and 2014 graduates this spring became the most indebted class ever.
Kevin Spacey is taking center stage at the University of Virginia this fall.The acclaimed actor will be in Charlottesville on Oct. 18 at the second annual President's Speaker Series for the Arts. The university says more than 5,000 people are expected to attend.
Douglas Laycock, one of Holt’s lawyers, said Supreme Court briefs should meet a higher standard of factual accuracy. “This kind of flat misrepresentation to the court, however it happened,” he said, “doesn’t happen very often.” ... In addition to Laycock, who teaches law at the University of Virginia, Holt is represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which also represented Hobby Lobby, the chain of crafts stores that won last term’s religious liberty case.
About 4,000 health caregivers in the country are set to benefit from a yearlong training exercise to be conducted by a visiting team of specialists, nurses, and health managers from 23 US universities. The 116 experts in various medical fields started work at their respective postings across the country yesterday.They are in the country under the auspices of Human Resources for Health (HRH) programme, a seven-year partnership between Rwanda and the US and institutions such as Global Fund and Clinton Foundation, which started in 2012. ... "We are here not only to share knowledge and experi...
Have you heard the old joke about the difference between God and a federal court judge? The punchline is that God doesn’t think he’s a judge – implying, of course, that federal judges have a perhaps inflated perception of their omnipotence. ... Judge Sullivan wanted to hear from a less interested party, so he appointed University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett to submit an amicus brief.
As Ukraine's battle against separatists along the border with Russia intensifies, the conflict threatens to bleed the government's coffers dry. ... Ashley Deeks, a former State Department lawyer now at the University of Virginia's School of Law, said the Obama administration has yet to articulate the legal basis for bombing in Syria. But she said the self-defense justification is most likely what it will cite, what she called "anticipatory self-defense," that is, countering an imminent threat against American citizens.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said the announcement of Cantor’s Wall Street job was “as predictable as the sunrise.”“We just didn’t know the name of the firm Cantor would join,” Sabato said.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said the Perry indictment might even give Abbot "a bit of a boost since Republicans are so angry that it happened." ... "Media hype does not produce votes most of the time," Sabato said. "Wendy Davis received enormous amounts of state and national coverage, but the Democratic base in Texas is nowhere near a majority of the electorate."
Director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics Dr. Larry Sabato was on with Brian and they discussed the Mid-term elections and what to expect. The Republicans are going to run against the Democrats on their inaction in the Middle East and the stagnant economy. Dr. Sabato explained that the rebounding economy isn’t going to help the Democratic Party.
Battleground-state Democrats continue to make good poll showings, since the Republican brand also is tarnished. "The public is wary of both parties," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, as last fall's partial government shutdown continues to hurt the Republicans' image. Republicans are likely to retain their House majority, but they don't appear to be in a position to make a net gain in governorships.
“It’s seen as very unlikely that [Gillespie] could win the Senate race,” says Larry Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and the state’s leading political guru. “The question is, can he keep Warner below 60%? If so, he has a future, for governor or against [US Sen.] Tim Kaine” in 2018.
Students who did as little as possible during college continued to drift after graduation, according to a new book about postcollegiate outcomes for the ill-fated class of 2009.Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates, by sociologists Richard Arum of New York University and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia, is the follow-up to their book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, published in 2010.
“The court is inundated with 11th-hour, untested, advocacy-motivated claims of factual expertise,” Allison Orr Larsen wrote in an article to be published in The Virginia Law Review.
Carroll’s statistics and conclusions are backed up by a recent report from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, “Before ‘I Do.’" The study, as reported by the Deseret News National Edition, concludes.
This graphic is a "racial dot map" made by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service based at the University of Virginia. They use census information to make a striking visual of the racial makeup of the entire country.