While Trump has blamed the pace of confirmations on the Democrats, Chris Lu, a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center and former White House Cabinet secretary in the Obama administration, said each nomination eats up a large amount of manpower. "It's chewing up a huge amount of time in these agencies and in the U.S. Senate," said Lu, who's gone through the nomination and confirmation process.
The University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs publicly announced an oral history of the Barack Obama presidency on Tuesday.
Kristin Clarens has joined the Legal Aid Justice Center as the first pro bono coordinator for the Pro-Bono Committee of the Charlottesville Albemarle Bar Association. The scope of her work will include the Charlottesville-Albemarle area, and she will also receive cases referred from organizations such as the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society, the Legal Aid Justice Center, the Center for Nonprofit Excellence and the Nonprofit Clinic at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia has a reputation as a hidebound and conservative place, where seersucker reigns supreme and change comes slowly. But progressive political activism has always been present on Grounds. For decades, UVA students have banded together to protest against all manner of injustices. Today’s students are building on the activism of their forebears.
Chief executive officers with lower integrity cost their firms money, both in higher audit fees and poorer long-term performance, according to new research from a group of leading accounting professors, including UVA Darden School of Business Professor Shane Dikolli.
(Commentary by Fiona Greenland, assistant professor of sociology) The Islamic State surrendered its last scrap of territory, in Baghouz, Syria, in March. While some argue that celebrations of its demise are premature, there’s no question that the terrorist group left a trail of destruction in its wake. Many lives were lost, of course. But a looming issue is the group’s legacy of looting.
UVA Athletics Director Carla Williams will be part of a new NCAA working group that will examine student-athlete name, image and likeness rights, the NCAA announced Tuesday.
It's possible to protect LGBTQ rights and religious freedom at the same time, as Latter-day Saint leaders propose, but not enough activists and policymakers are interested in that approach, said Douglas Laycock, a professor of law and religious studies at the University of Virginia.
A presentation on the history of the Jewish community in Charlottesville before and after August 2017 was put on Monday as part of the many Unity Days events. Phyllis Leffler, a professor at the University of Virginia, said her point of view from the Jewish community is only a piece of a larger story.
A popup photo exhibit of Charlottesville's early African American population is drawing visitors on University of Virginia Grounds. It's at the site of UVA's Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. There are more than 30 portraits by photographer Rufus Holsinger of everyday African Americans. The powerful pictures reveal how many black Charlottesville residents looked and lived in the late 1800s and early 1900s and some who even worked at UVA.
(Video) Crews started putting up the stage and ramps leading down to and from the Rotunda in preparation for University of Virginia’s 2019 Valedictory Exercises. The keynote speaker will be Virginia native and musician Pharrell Williams.
Two Charlottesville-area students are getting a full ride to the University of Virginia. They’re among dozens of high schoolers who earned Jefferson Scholars Foundation awards this year.
The University of Virginia will hold Final Exercises this weekend. The Valedictory Exercises will kick everything off on Friday with musician Pharrell Williams, a Virginia Beach native, being the keynote speaker.
The state’s Board of Health preemptively altered some of its regulations to align with a Supreme Court decision in 2016, rolling back some rules that required facilities providing five or more abortions a month to meet hospital-like building standards. Such laws and regulations are common nationwide, said Lois Shepherd, a UVA law professor.
Racism and anti-Semitism were linked during the deadly summer of hate in Charlottesville, said UVA professor Phyllis K. Leffler at a Unity Days event Monday. As part of the Summer of Unity history month series, she discussed the Jewish history of the Charlottesville area and the links between white supremacy and anti-Semitism displayed during the Unite the Right rally in 2017.
"Within Virginia, a disproportionate share of growth has been concentrated in Northern Virginia this decade, particularly compared with past decades," according to StatChat, a website produced by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
For the second year, former UVA football star Chris Long held a fundraiser for his foundation at King Family Vineyards on Saturday. Wheels, Wine and Wonder raised money for the Chris Long Foundation to support educational equity and early childhood literacy programs locally and nationally.
More and more, when crises arise, city and state officials look to colleges to leave the bounds of their normal charter and help, says Joshua J. Yates, research director of the University of Virginia’s Thriving Cities Lab. Colleges themselves have expanded their town-gown projects since the 1980s, according to a recent report by the lab.
Tensions over the Establishment Clause go all the way back to America's birth, when the Pilgrims and Puritans came seeking religious freedom from persecution in England, which has informed the narrative ever since. "In the UK you have an established church, which tolerates all the others," says Douglas Laycock, the Robert E Scott Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School.
The relationship between United States history and law is complicated — and something distinguished University of Virginia professor G. Edward White has devoted years to examining in his “Law in American History” book series.