Ohio native Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics said the district should have been an easier win for the GOP. The district, he said, “contains some of the most bedrock Republican turf in the state and this basically could have went either way. The GOP likely keeps the seat but the result is very much in line with what we’ve seen all over the country in special elections this cycle: Democrats often running well ahead of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 performance,” he said. “I don’t think this was a particularly impressive showing for Republicans.”
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said the probe's outcome is what matters. "Does this matter at the end of the day to most people? Probably not," he said. "It really depends on what the special prosecutor finds."
Firefighters are a perennial target of free-market economists. One of the most memorable anecdotes from my introductory economics course at the University of Virginia, taught by the prolific Kenneth Elzinga, had to do with firefighters. Elzinga asked the class if they had noticed that the fire department seemed to respond to any 911 call, no matter the actual need. He then argued that the number of firefighters far outweighs the public necessity for their services, as the number of fires had significantly declined. He’s right: since the mid-1980s, fires across the country have dropped by about...
The Associated Press reporter on the phone with Jalane Schmidt wanted two voices for her article: One would be Jason Kessler, the white supremacist who organized the Unite the Right rally here last year that left one dead and dozens injured. The other, the reporter hoped, would be Schmidt herself, a Black Lives Matter activist and associate professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. The story would be a debate, of sorts. Both sides would be represented. “Hell no,” Schmidt said after she hung up.
Some Wall Street analysts and consumer advocates say it would be softer on brokerage businesses and insurance companies than the Obama-era measure and wouldn’t allow for investor lawsuits. “Disproportionally, senior citizens who risk being steered into high-cost annuities or other questionable products are the ones who would benefit from a broad fiduciary duty for retirement assets,” said Quinn Curtis, a professor at the University of Virginia law school who has researched retirement accounts. Seniors “will be the ones who are most vulnerable.”
U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated a prominent Indian-American law professor and legal expert to an agency on privacy and civil liberties. Aditya Bamzai, a professor at University of Virginia's School of Law, has been nominated by Trump to be a member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board for the remainder of a six-year term expiring Jan. 29, 2020.
(Commentary by Anita Grabowska, master’s degree candidate in the Curry School of Education, and Nancy Deutsch, director of Youth-Nex, the UVA Center to Promote Effective Youth Development) Even when all children are at last reunited with their parents, the administration’s work is far from over. Its “zero-tolerance,” zero-compassion policy has caused thousands of youth to experience severe trauma.
(Commentary by Robert C. Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education) The Trump administration’s approach to policymaking often rests on ambiguous justifications and minimal, if any, supporting evidence. Regardless of the arena — whether it be trade, immigration, foreign policy, healthcare or education — we’ve seen the administration ignore, or worse, undermine fundamental facts that contradict its aims. Perhaps it should be no surprise, then, that one of the most identifiable K-12 policies to come out of the Department of Education follows a similar pattern.
(Commentary co-written by Brian Williams, visiting professor of public policy) Smith College has opened an investigation into a July 31 incident in which a staff employee called campus police on a black student who supposedly “seemed to be out of place.” It turns out the student, Oumou Kanoute, who had a summer job with the college, was simply eating lunch in a common area. This incident did not happen in isolation. It is just the latest in a string of cases referred to as profiling by proxy – instances where police are summoned to a situation by a biased caller.
Officials at the UVA Medical Center and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital say they’re trying to logistically and mentally prepare for a worst-case scenario to happen again.
University of Virginia President James Ryan sent a letter to the community on Tuesday addressing the university's preparations for the upcoming weekend.
A University of Virginia commission that spent years studying slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s university just dropped its damning report, which concludes “slavery, in every way imaginable, was central to the project of designing, funding, building, and maintaining the school.” But it’s just the beginning of the work at UVA – and at dozens of other universities now searching for ways to atone for their past.
(By Julia Payne, a fourth-year student interning with the High Atlas Foundation in Marrakech, Morocco) Aug. 12, 2018 marks the 18th celebration of the U.N.’s annual International Youth Day. This awareness day is a unique opportunity to reflect on youth’s challenges and to celebrate and support the world’s future leaders. This year’s theme, “Safe Spaces for Youth,” marks the importance of youth’s engagement, participation, and freedom of thought.
As a midfielder in Westport, Connecticut, Kyle Martino was the country’s top high school player and earned an athletic scholarship to UVA. As much as he loved soccer, he still had to scramble to watch matches on television. “I would watch it in Spanish, do whatever I could to breathe it,” says Martino, who is now 37 and a studio analyst of Premier League coverage on NBC, which begins Friday.
After a five-year plunge into the history of slavery at UVA, a commission has concluded that slavery played an integral role in the founding, construction and operations of the public university. A new commission will continue the examination of race by studying the years of segregation there.
Anita Kumar has become the first Indian-American to be elected to the board of the White House Correspondents Association, more than a century-old apex body of journalists covering the U.S. president. Born and brought up in Charlottesville, she went to the University of Virginia. Kumar is now the White House Correspondent for the McClatchy group of newspapers.
Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, pointed to a categorization system created by James Pfiffner that ranks different types of political deception by severity. “To base a policy on a, quote, fact or statistic that I presume he knows is false, or someone who wrote that statement for him knows is false — to me that’s the worst of all,” she said.
To mark the 49th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival, the award-winning documentary “Woodstock” will be screened at Vinegar Hill Theatre on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. After the film, Slate pop critic and assistant professor of American studies and media studies at the University of Virginia Jack Hamilton will lead a discussion on the “rockumentary.”
Startups can be tricky. To be able to handle the curveball thrown at you, one needs a lot of support and a strong ability to handle it. Saras Sarasvathy, a leading scholar on the cognitive basis for high-performance entrepreneurship and Paul Hammaker Professor of Entrepreneurship at University of Virginia Darden School of Business, recently conducted a workshop for students, entrepreneurs, educators and faculty at Flame University, Pune.
When looking at overall trends in child abuse, Dr. W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project, said that studies show children who come from unstable homes with unmarried parents are most likely to be abused, especially by someone close to them. “Family drama and family chaos are breeding grounds for abuse,” Wilcox said. “Kids who are exposed to instability are more likely to be exposed to unrelated adults, especially unrelated adult males.”