UVA is considering new names for the Curry School of Education and Human Development and Ruffner Hall. The recommendations for new names is the latest step in an effort to understand the legacies of J.L.M. Curry and William H. Ruffner and their ties to racial segregation and slavery.
Provided the Board of Visitors says yes, UVA will re-name its school of education and give a new name to a building that houses many of its professors.
(Commentary by Kimberly Robinson, Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Professor of Law and a professor of education) The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision late last month in Gary B. v. Whitmer represents a watershed moment in American education and, if it stands, could transform American society for generations to come.
(Commentary by Ruth Mason, professor of law and tax) As COVID decimates tax revenues for countries, governments will be under intense pressure to find new ways of raising taxes without suppressing economic activity. One possibility is to raise taxes on digital commerce across borders, which currently doesn’t happen.
If you’re just getting into running, the most important step is to start slow. Bob Wilder, director of UVA’s Runner’s Clinic, said he recommends first-time runners start with a walk-run program, adding more running every week, with one minute of walking and another of running. The key is to not go headfirst into a hard, long running schedule, he said.
(Commentary by Jack Hamilton, assistant professor of American studies and media studies) Little Richard was a meteor in American culture, an artist who exploded into the collective consciousness and brought the future with him all at once.
Mother’s Day started early this year for Theresa “TJ” Lovdal. “My son made me a sweet sunflower card that he couldn’t wait to give me this morning,” Lovdal said Friday. Lovdal is on the front lines of the pandemic. She works in a specialized intensive care unit at the UVA Medical Center caring for COVID-19 patients.
When UVA canceled in-person classes for the rest of the semester, students were allowed to come back and grab what they needed. Starting this week, they were permitted return to Grounds and retrieve the rest of their belongings.
The shooting range SafeSide was the first to challenge Northam’s authority by stating that EO53 infringed on Second Amendment rights. As of now, the ruling only applies to SafeSide, according to UVA law professor Richard Schragger, who told The Virginian-Pilot that the reasoning could be applied to subsequent lawsuits brought by others in the state.
The Institute for Family Studies hosted a webinar on what married life might look like after the COVID-19 pandemic, featuring UVA sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project W. Bradford Wilcox. He said people just might give up on “soulmate” marriages – a notion popular since the 1970s that marriage is about intense emotional connection and personal fulfillment, so if spouses stop being happy, it’s OK to walk away.
Driving the president’s push to reopen even as COVID-19 virus infections continue to rise is a deep-seated instinct that he has no choice, says UVA political scientist Larry Sabato. “The economy either recovers substantially or he’s a one-term president,” Sabato said.
Since 2013, different chapters of the Little Sisters have fought the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage mandate in courts around the United States. Each legal battle rests on the argument that the mandate violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a federal law intended to ensure that “interests in religious freedom are protected.” ... “When your exercise of religious liberty harms other people, then it faces a constitutional limit,” said UVA law professor Micah Schwartzman, who joined a friend of the court brief in support of the states fighting the exemption.
The counter-intuitive finding here is that Virginia’s most prestigious institutions may be at greatest risk of revenue loss because they are the very same institutions with the greatest number of out-of-state students. The University of Virginia has even more dollars at risk — $368 million, a truly massive sum.
The University of Virginia will hold a virtual ceremony on May 16 to confer degrees. Tentative plans are being made for in-person final exercises on the Lawn for the Class of 2020 on Oct. 9-11.
The Thomas Jefferson Health District and the Charlottesville-UVA-Albemarle Emergency Operations Center are hosting a virtual COVIDconvo town hall on Friday. The town hall, set for 3 to 4 p.m., aims to provide answers to commonly asked questions regarding local COVID-19 cases and investigations and reopening businesses and to provide an open forum for other community questions.
UVA is deploying one of its most famous faces to spread joy around Charlottesville and beyond. Cav Man, the University’s mascot, is taking requests to perform random acts of kindness.
Cav Man made a visit to a first-grade teacher at Venable Elementary School, but it was anything but random. Megan Greenwood was nominated for a surprise visit from the famous mascot through “Random Acts of Cav Man.”
(Commentary by Andrew Kaufman, associate professor and assistant director of UVA’s Center for Teaching Excellence) How can teachers best support students in this process? Or parents their children, health care workers their patients, all of us one another? The answers to these questions are more similar than we might think.
UVA Health is working on increasing access to both inpatient and outpatient care with safety measures to protect the health of patients and team members.