If dollars were votes, employees at Virginia’s publicly funded colleges and universities would have re-elected President Barack Obama by a landslide. … At the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, the state’s largest employer, employees gave $62,000 to Obama and $2,000 to Romney. George Mason University was the biggest Romney donor at $7,200, compared with $16,775 for the sitting president.
A group of University of Virginia alumni are calling on the school's board to candidly explain its attempted ouster of President Teresa Sullivan, saying a failure to do so will hurt the university's reputation and its fundraising efforts. In an open letter to the board sent Wednesday, 14 alumni spanning three decades equated the board's June 10 forced ouster to a "boardroom coup" more in line with a corporation than an academic institution. Sullivan's resignation was announced June 10, followed by protests and uproar on the Charlottesville campus until she was reinstated June 26.
Robert Caro's The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson has earned accolades and the bestseller status that befits this definitive study of Johnson. I have just finished listening to the book on 27 CDs, a total of 33 hours, on various spring and summer road trips. What an excellent way to use time in the car. In the case of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, there is another major dimension to savor as audio: the 800 hours of conversations, mainly on the telephone, that Johnson secretly recorded between 1963 and 1968, all of which are now readily available. … Johnson's techniques for politic...
Governor Bob McDonnell is praising lawmakers for making it easier to get a college education in Virginia. Wednesday, he announced tuition and fee increases at state universities are the lowest they have been in a decade. Those tuition and fee increases will only jump up an average of 4.1 percent across the state this year, which is almost half of last year's 7.9 percent increase. However, it is still higher than the projected tuition hike at the University of Virginia. UVA announced in April in-state students will only see a 3.7 percent cost bump this year, to just more than $25,000. The gover...
Construction is nearly complete on an advanced manufacturing research center in Prince George County, the center's executive director told Chesterfield County Chamber of Commerce members Wednesday. The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing, or CCAM, is on Rolls-Royce North America's Cross pointe campus, where the company has an aircraft engine components plant. The 60,000-square-foot center will do research for a group of manufacturing companies with operations in Virginia under a partnership with Virginia Tech, Virginia State University and the University of Virginia.
U.Va School of Nursing professor Linda Bullock joined us for this week's edition of UVa Today. She sat down with the Newsplex's Bob Beard to talk about a big grant for the school, meant to help fund new programs for certain women.
Most University of Virginia students probably spent their summer at home or on vacation, but one group of students stayed in Charlottesville to start their own businesses. The students at the UVA Darden Business Incubator have been working on startingtheir own companies all summer. Many of them say they were already off to a good start, but it's the chance to workwith others to turn their ideas into a reality.
A new program for aspiring Virginia leaders kicked off with sessions in Colonial Williamsburg and continues throughout this month. The eight-day Emerging Leaders Program is sponsored by the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia and was developed in partnership with Gov. Bob McDonnell's office, according to a statement from officials.
Old grass on the University of Virginia lawn is getting torn up and replaced by fresh sod, and an all new drainage system. This is the first complete overhaul of UVA\'s grassy centerpiece, and an approach that moves away from periodically seeding the lawn. The three-week project will level the ground, and unfurl healthy rolls of turf.
Dr. Dow Briggs was named senior vice president, business operations. Briggs joined Blue Cross in 2004. He completed received a bachelor of arts degree in religious studies from the University of Virginia.
David Martin
Professor of law
Process set for undocumented youthful immigrants to remain in the U.S.
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How young undocumented immigrants can qualify for US amnesty
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USCIS Director Discusses Plan for New Deferred Action Program Policies
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Robert Pianta
Dean of Curry School of Education
Online education degrees skyrocket
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Larry Sabato
Director, Center for Politics
Pawlenty a favorite - among experts and gamblers - to be Romney's VP pick
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Virgil Goode, Constitution Party Pr...
What did Virginia sound like more than 200 years ago? This is a question musicologists at the University of Virginia asked themselves before starting a unique project: an exhibit about early American sound.
The University of Virginia had its best June fundraising in four years after its board backed down on the controversial ouster of the university’s popular president.
A $1 million gift has created an endowed professorship in biology at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.
When UVA President Teresa Sullivan started her term in 2011, a survey was created because she wanted to hear from her staff. Now the Staff Survey Advisory Committee has taken a look at the results and released a report with several recommendations.
The fallout from the leadership crisis at the University of Virginia continued on Tuesday with the resignation of Michael Strine, Virginia's executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Gov. Susana Martinez says New Mexico's struggling schools will have a chance to participate in a University of Virginia-based program aimed at helping troubled schools.
In addition to the local work it performs, Lacrosse the Nations uses the sport as a vehicle to build life skills in children in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, as well as Virginia, where Brett Hughes played at the University of Virginia for four years.
Taelor Mason, 19, a student at Howard University stands with Gabrielle Long, 20, a student at the University of Virginia.