At the University of Virginia, a commission to examine the school’s role in racial segregation issued recommendations in March on handling past and future memorials. The guidelines include questioning whether the person’s main legacy was contested during their lifetime. An equity task force is now examining the report and plans to issue an opinion in August.
In recent weeks, a growing list of M.B.A. programs, including UVA’s Darden School of Business, said they plan to extend their test-optional format to the 2021 admissions cycle.
The Atlantic Coast Conference is expected to play a conference-only schedule this fall. That applies to all sports, including football. The Virginia football team will no longer open the season on September 7th against Georgia in Atlanta, however, they will still travel to Atlanta, as the Cavaliers will play at Georgia Tech in October.
“There is no doubt that risk assessments are biased,” says Megan Stevenson of the University of Virginia. “Anything that has data from a biased world will have a biased output.” But this means that “there is no way to test a risk assessment tool for fairness,” because any measures, such as if a bailed person is rearrested, can also be affected by racial bias in the justice system.
Explains University of Virginia legal history professor Cynthia Nicoletti, who wrote “Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis,” the Confederacy’s only president, some Southerners and Northerners believed at the time that states could opt out of a union they voluntarily joined. She notes that Davis was never put on trial for treason, though it appears that it would have been an easy case to prove. “Treason in the Constitution is levying war against the United States,” Nicoletti said. “It was incredibly easy for them to prove that Davis levied war against th...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 on Thursday that local prosecutors in New York may obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns and other closely guarded financial records from his accountants and lenders. … But Saikrishna Prakash, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, said the impact will be limited.
When it comes to kids and the coronavirus, one of the few things that is clear is that children can become infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, at all ages. “There are a number of papers that show that children can become infected,” explains Dr. Steven Zeichner, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia. “Some of them are symptomatic, there’ve been a few deaths” – but, he adds, “a large number are asymptomatic.” And for children who do show symptoms, he says, research shows their “disease course” tends to be milder than in adults.
With government money paying the salaries of priests and ministers, some legal experts see a troubling precedent given the separation of church and state called for in the Constitution. Micah Schwartzman, a University of Virginia law professor specializing in constitutional issues and religion, said the treatment of faith groups goes beyond fairness by giving them preferential treatment. “That’s something we haven’t seen before,” he said. “That’s new.”
Religious groups are normally exempt from Small Business Administration loans, but a loophole was imposed after sustained lobbying in Washington, D.C. Micah Schwartzman, a University of Virginia law professor specializing in constitutional issues and religion who has studied the Paycheck Protection Program, said, “The government grants special dispensation, and that creates a kind of structural favoritism. And that favoritism was worth billions of dollars.”
(Commentary by Camilo Sanchez, director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the School of Law) “Latin America is now the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to being a tough test for the pallid health systems in the region, the COVID-19 vortex puts in check two regional projects that seemed to be moving in a slow yet stable fashion over the last three decades: the fight against poverty and the strengthening of democratic institutions.”
UVA Health says research conducted by its nurses and professors is shortening the time it takes to administer a key treatment for children with cancer. Blood platelet transfusions that had previously taken between two to four hours for kids now can take just 30 minutes.
The University of Virginia says it is working with other universities to change a new regulation that will restrict international students in the United States. According to a post on UVA President Jim Ryan’s Facebook page, the new regulation says that international students can stay in this country as long as their educational experience is not entirely conducted online.
The project was instigated by the UVA Foundation-owned resort’s desire to introduce multiple infrastructure improvements, including a new golf building, tennis facilities and entry road. The project also included the building of a new practice facility for the UVA men’s and women’s golf teams, short game practice areas for members and resort guests, and a larger practice ground for all players.
Chief Justice Roberts’ two opinions were a study in subtle contrasts, observes UVA law professor Saikrishna Prakash. “Oddly enough, it seems like the New York state prosecutor has more authority than Congress does,” he said.
Solving the school problem is crucial for parents and kids. Elena Tuerk, a UVA child psychologist, proposed a corps of child care providers, potentially paid for by states or the federal government, who could supervise children when their parents are at work.
(By Anushay Hossain, UVA alumna who is a journalist and political analyst based in Washington) Like the thousands of other students who have come to America to attend world-class colleges and universities, I came to the University of Virginia in 1998 when I was 18 years old. Far away from my family and friends in Dhaka, Bangladesh, I found a new home in Charlottesville.
University of Virginia Political Science Chair Jennifer Lawless appeared on GoLocal LIVE where she talked about the latest in national politics, including Amy Kennedy’s primary win this week in New Jersey – and what to look for next.
Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia who’s written extensively about religious freedom, similarly suggested the Our Lady decision’s impact on wage and hour law could be muted.
UVA law professor Douglas Laycock, who signed a brief siding with the religious schools, conceded that as a result of Wednesday's opinion, there may be injustices in some cases, with teachers being fired over forbidden criteria such as age or disability, only to have no recourse in courts. “We tolerate the occasional abuses because the cost of judges and juries second-guessing every personnel decision ... are on the whole much greater,” Laycock said.
The News Leaders Association has also been working with Meredith Clark, lead researcher and an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, in hopes of creating an easy and quick process for news leaders to fill out the survey, thus increasing participation. Clark has also been conducting case study research to offer organizations tailored approaches and tools to help them improve newsroom diversity.