The University of Virginia's senior leaders have listed some of the school's future challenges which will be topics at an upcoming Board of Visitors retreat. Provost John Simon and the deans of all 11 schools and the University Library have delivered a letter to President Teresa Sullivan that offers a potential road map to the future. The letter's authors say UVA mustspell out its current strengths and weaknesses, and devise strategies to differentiate Virginia's flagship institution from its peers. Simon lists five key areas that are crucial. They include faculty; curriculum; global prominenc...
The University of Virginia has received high marks from Forbes Magazine and U.S. News & World Report on both magazines’ annual list of top U.S. colleges. Despite differing methodologies, the two publications ranked UVA similarly: The University came in at 36 on Forbes’ top 100 and 25 on U.S. News’. While they acknowledge that the lists are closely watched, experts and administrators alike have downplayed the importance of the rankings. Forbes and U.S. News & World Report use different strategies to rank schools, according to their own reports. Forbes weighs “post-graduate success” above all el...
The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors will meet this week in Richmond for its summer retreat, marking the first time its members have met since they reinstated President Teresa A. Sullivan in late June. As the university’s leadership focuses on a message of reconciliation and progress, some members of the community continue to express reservations about the board’s performance this summer.
Some of the University of Virginia's Olympic athletes got a big welcome home celebration at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport Monday night. Team USA field hockey players Paige Selenski and Michelle Vittese, both rising seniors at UVA, were greeted at the airport by the entire UVa field hockey team. Also on the same plane back to Charlottesville was UVa swimmerLauren Perdue, who won a gold medal in London as part of the United States 4x200 meter freestyle relay team.
Addressing a roomful of her academic colleagues from around the world, University of Virginia President and sociologist Teresa A. Sullivan said that gaining access for college can be a difficult but crucial step for lower- and middle-class students. “Without some level of post-secondary education, surviving in today’s economy can be a real challenge,” Sullivan said. The president gave the address as part of the opening of the International Sociological Association’s conference on “Labor Market and Educational Transitions in Uncertain Times.” She also was set to host a reception for participant...
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As we think about the future of education, we need to sharpen our understanding of what education is and what educators do. Education is often compared to two other industries upended by the Internet: journalism and publishing. This is a serious error.
Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, says that children growing up in such a family structure are more likely to struggle with hardships such as delinquency or teenage pregnancy.
College students spend their summers lots of cool ways. You know: interning, lifeguarding, bugging Mom and Dad, discovering new molecules in space. Well, that last one's how Albemarle County resident and Piedmont Virginia Community College student Jolie Nyiramahirwe spent her summer. She was part of a team of students who found the molecule while doing summer research at the University of Virginia.
The man who was briefly interim president at the University of Virginia during this summer's presidential crisis had tough words for both President Teresa A. Sullivan and the Board of Visitors in emails released Friday, though he said the words were the result of a rapidly evolving situation and ignorance of a crucial memo. "What I would say is that you need to put in context that there were conversations also taking place here, telephone conversations, where we were at that point," Carl P. Zeithaml, dean of the McIntire School of Commerce, said Friday evening.
In an email four days after the agreement was announced, University of Virginia Rector Helen Dragas characterized the online partnership with Coursera as an apparent "knee-jerk reaction" to the issue she had raised in her attempt to fire the president.
Any lingering doubts about the complexities of overseeing a major university were likely dispelled by the recent unpleasantness in Charlottesville, as some are calling this summer\'s leadership crisis at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia's rector, Helen E. Dragas, appears to have considered leaving the school's Board of Visitors during the crisis surrounding this summer's temporary removal of President Teresa A. Sullivan, but ultimately rejected the notion.
The University of Virginia released more than 1,200 pages of e-mails and other documents Friday that contained hundreds of calls from alumni, faculty and others for the leader of the governing board, Rector Helen E. Dragas, to resign.
Over 800 hours of recently released recordings from the Lyndon Johnson White House reveal how President John F. Kennedy's successor guided the country through the most difficult stages of the civil rights era. The recordings, recently made available by the University of Virginia's Miller Center, include conversations Johnson had with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and other key players who shaped that era.
The University of Virginia's Center for Politics is calling Romney's choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate bold and says it is a huge surprise but a strategic move. It is a choice that may swing Virginia as a battleground state.
The University of Virginia is hosting a three-day international conference on social inequality issues. The International Sociological Association's conference on "Labor Market and Educational Transitions in Uncertain Times" is scheduled to begin Monday.
Construction is nearly complete on an advanced manufacturing research center in Prince George County. Officials with the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing say the 60,000-square-foot facility is expected to open in early September. The center will do research for a group of manufacturers under a partnership with Virginia Tech, Virginia State University and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia had debuted a list of products that are all based on research done at the school. The directory, called the Product Pipeline, contains 72 products ranging from business products to computer software to medical devices, detailing where each one stands in various stages of development.