(Commentary) This would seem a curious time for Catholic bishops to start harassing the U.S. president. Mr. Biden is only the second Catholic in the White House, and the first, John F. Kennedy, helped the church gain wider cultural acceptance. “Prejudice against Catholics declined and millions were exposed to church rituals,” tweeted Larry Sabato, the University of Virginia political scientist. “Church leaders welcomed the ‘JFK effect.’ Now at last there is a 2nd Catholic @POTUS, and what do some in the hierarchy do? Ruin it.”
Kennedy, of course, championed the separation of church and state before winning the presidency in 1960. As University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato noted yesterday, the church "benefited enormously" from the JFK presidency -- prejudice against Catholics declined -- and church leaders welcomed the "JFK effect."
Professor Paul G. Mahoney at the University of Virginia wrote that “ESG disclosure mandates risk eroding the Commission's reputation as an effective and respected nonpartisan regulator” and that such public policy focused mandates “appear to prioritize the social and political views of the largest Wall Street asset management firms over the financial wellbeing of the households whose savings they manage.”
Almost three years to the day since he broke into the offices of the Capital Gazette’s Maryland newsroom and fatally shot five journalists, jury selection began Wednesday in Jarrod Ramos’ murder trial. A psychiatrist and professor at the University of Virginia, Dr. Gregory Saathoff will testify at some point during the trial that he has determined Ramos is criminally responsibility after viewing his jail cell and speaking with Anne Arundel County Detention Center personnel about his behavior.
Selena Cozart and Frank Dukes, mediators with the University of Virginia’s Institute for Engagement & Negotiation, congratulated the board, the committee and the National Trust on their historic partnership. “We hope that the brave conversations that nurtured new relationships and that led to this truly momentous agreement will inspire other organizations to action,” Cozart and Dukes said.
Some experts argue that divorce should be hard, so that spouses try to reconcile. “Marriage is an important factor in fostering better social, emotional, and economic outcomes for our kids, adults, and communities,” says W. Bradford Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. “For those kinds of reasons, I think we should be concerned about the erosion of civil marriage in the United States since the 1970s, when no-fault divorce took off.” He supports a universal three-month waiting period for a divorce, and an advantage in the division of assets and ch...
A global minimum corporate tax would eliminate, or at least reduce, incentives for companies based in one country to move parts of their operations to other countries with lower tax rates. According to an estimate, about 40% of the profits earned in 2017 by multinational companies around the world was funnelled into tax havens. A global minimum corporate tax would aim to change that. “The idea is, if you have to pay 15% no matter where you declare your income, there’s no reason to put your income in a zero-tax jurisdiction,” Ruth Mason, a law professor at the University of Virginia, said. “If ...
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(Commentary co-written by Fiona Greenland, assistant professor of sociology) After a year of hibernation, the art market is making up for lost time. But dealers, collectors, and artists are reemerging into a changed landscape after the NFT upstart Beeple sold his opus “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days” at Christie’s in March for $69.3 million—the third highest price ever paid for a work by a living artist at auction.
Jon Ashley at the UVA School of Law has been working for years on pulling together all such agreements for the law school’s Corporate Prosecution Registry. The registry is currently home to more than 3,500 such agreements. But Ashley says “it seems to be something of an open secret” that there are more such agreements that are not made public and in April 2020 Ashley filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking a list of all such deferred and non-prosecution agreements from 2009 to the present. The Department of Justice has failed to respond to Ashley’s FOIA and last September, Ashley fi...
Three years removed from leading Cape Henlopen to the 2018 DIAA Baseball State Championship, brothers Zack and Jake Gelof are attempting to win another title. This time it is in front of a nationally televised audience at the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. The Gelofs play in the infield for the University of Virginia.
Through seven innings, Virginia could do no wrong. Starting pitcher Griff McGarry hadn’t allowed a hit, and the Wahoos held a commanding 4-0 lead. Then an eighth-inning meltdown turned a potentially historic victory into a devastating defeat.
4. University of Virginia: The School of Education and Human Development has an M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction. The overarching objective of the degree program is to graduate learners with strong foundational knowledge and broad comprehension of coursework and instruction and the role they have in various learning environments. Learners in this rigorous degree program have the choice of selecting emphasis in English education, gifted education, instructional technology, mathematics education, reading education, science education and social studies education.
Faculty and staff at the University of Virginia will need to get vaccinated for COVID-19 before returning to work in the fall or they will be required to take weekly tests to show they do not have the virus.
This year, we’re taking a different tack, and focusing on the city’s next generation of leaders. Get to know these under-30 all-stars—people who are making a difference here in town, with their ideas, passion, dedication, and youthful energy. [The list includes 2015 alumnus Alex Bryant, the new associate director of IX Art Park, president of the Downtown Business Association, secretary for the African American Teaching Fellows, and a board member at Bennett’s Village and Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge; and incoming first-year student Sabrina Hendricks, who began her own pho...
UVA is deeply invested in the study of democracy. You can study democracy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, or the Miller Center of Public Affairs, or the Center for Politics, or the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, or the Democracy Initiative in the College of Arts & Sciences, or the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy at the law school. Now, the school is adding another institute to the collection.
That the good things in life may be savored even by the dying is one of the themes of “Documenting Death,” a new, short documentary that tells the story of Kim Acquaviva and her wife, Kathy Brandt, who died of cancer in 2019, at the age of 54. Brandt was a palliative-care nurse and an outspoken proponent of hospice and palliative care; when she received her diagnosis, she and Acquaviva, a professor of nursing at UVA and an expert in end-of-life issues for LGBTQ individuals and their families, decided to document Brandt’s decline, and their family’s last days together, through frank and frequen...
UVA athletic director Carla Williams said the financial hit her program took during the past year wasn’t as damaging as she feared it might be a year ago at this time. “We’re going to end up a lot better than the projections and we’re so thankful for that,” Williams said Monday via Zoom from Omaha, Nebraska, where she’s supporting UVA’s baseball team in the College World Series.
Bonnie Rosen was a two-time All-American lacrosse player at Harriton High School. She went on to have a four-year, two-sport career at the University of Virginia in field hockey and lacrosse. She led the Cavaliers to the 1993 NCAA lacrosse championship.
Reimagining a classic TV format is difficult under any circumstances. But the creative team behind NBC’s new primetime take on “College Bowl” had to do it in the middle of a pandemic. Premiering June 22 at 10 p.m. ET, the new “College Bowl” is hosted by Peyton Manning, along with brother Cooper serving as sidekick. The 10-episode series features college students competing for a share of $1 million in scholarship money, with participating schools including the University of Virginia.