By spring, likely more than a year late, the University of Virginia will finally close out its $3 billion capital campaign, an official told the UVa Board of Visitors on Friday.
Those looking to celebrate on that day can stop by the University of Virginia to meet James Monroe and former Chief Justice John Marshall, as interpreted by historical performers.
It's understandable that the birthplace of religious liberty would go the extra mile for parents who, for religious reasons, don't want their children in school. But Virginia is the only state in the nation that offers an exemption from mandatory school attendance - and doesn't require alternate schooling - when a parent and child say attendance violates their religious beliefs. More than 7,000 children in the commonwealth in 2010-11 were granted such a waiver, a study from the University of Virginia's law school found.
In the next month or two, subway and bus riders will find advertising where they have never seen it before: on the face of their MetroCards, always with them and inescapable — at least for that moment they pay their fare. But revenues come with a cost of their own, suggested Siva Vaidhaynathan, the chairman of the media studies department at the University of Virginia.
U.S. News & World Report may still be the 800-pound gorilla of college rankings. But with a formula that rarely changes, the latest edition — out Wednesday — looks pretty much the same as a decade ago, with very few exceptions.
More than 7,000 children in Virginia potentially receive no education? And the state is OK with that? That’s how many children do not go school under a state law allowing education exemptions for religious reasons, according to a new report by the Child Advocacy Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law.
As one of the top five public universities in the country, the University of Virginia is one of the most important public assets of the commonwealth. Yet the men and women, appointed by the governor to the Board of Visitors to oversee its operation, seem to think it’s their own personal playground.
On Wednesday, some 2,300 local folks will sneak out of work to saw, hammer, hoe, dust, paint, tote, carry and do just about anything else that 113 schools and agencies ask of them. Charity officials said the University of Virginia and UVa Health Systems alone provide almost 1,000 volunteers.
Some Virginia children might not be getting any education because of the state’s religious exemption from mandatory school attendance, according to a recent University of Virginia study.
So since expectations can change the performance of kids, how do we get teachers to have the right expectations? Is it possible to change bad expectations? That was the question that brought me to the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, where I met Robert Pianta.
A report released last week by the University of Virginia School of Law acknowledges that most children granted a religious exemption likely attend a private school or are educated at home. But that’s merely speculation. Dramatic growth in the number of exemptions, which have increased 50 percent since 2000, demands that state leaders revisit the outdated law.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and author of the book, "The Googlization of Everything," says that this is going to raise some difficult questions for Google, which owns YouTube.
A Fairfax County judge on Thursday overturned the robbery conviction of a man who faced deportation, saying prosecutors had failed to disclose evidence that would have cast doubt on the credibility of the victim, who also was the only witness. A group that included the staff director of the Senate Finance Committee, the Innocence Project of the University of Virginia and lawyers at the firm of McGuire Woods filed a petition asking the judge to vacate Conteh’s conviction.
Of all the numbers that emerged from Loudoun County’s recent survey of residents, one loomed larger than all the others – 78. That is the percentage of residents who said it was important for the county to focus on providing rail transit service in the next few years. The Center for Survey Research (CSR) at the University of Virginia conducted the survey under contract with the county.
President Teresa A. Sullivan unveiled a new plan at Thursday’s meeting of the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors to significantly boost faculty pay by the 2016-17 academic year.
A senior adviser to the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors had a message for faculty members who wanted more answers at Thursday’s meeting about this summer’s leadership crisis: Leave the past alone.
“Jean Hélion: Reality and Abstraction,” currently on view at UVA’s Fralin Museum of Art presents a small, yet rich collection of this under-appreciated artist’s work. The eight paintings and numerous works on paper are both handsome works of art and revealing souvenirs from Hélion’s artistic journey “through and then away from abstract art.”
Starting Thursday, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors will live broadcast its meetings online so that far-flung alumni, desk-bound reporters, curious students and anyone else can watch.
Fifth-graders in schools where teachers faithfully used the Responsive Classroom teaching approach performed better on statewide assessments of mathematics and reading skills than their peers at schools that did not use the social-emotional-learning program’s strategies as much, according to new research presented at a national conference here last week. A team of researchers led by Sara Rimm-Kaufman, an associate professor of leadership, foundations, and policy at the University of Virginia, has also been examining the program’s effect on teacher-student dynamics in...
THE SENATE – LARRY SABATO SWITCHES FLORIDA TO “LEAN DEMOCRATIC”: The University of Virginia political scientist speculates that there could be upsets in Indiana, North Dakota, Missouri and Connecticut.