Any lingering doubts about the complexities of overseeing a major university were likely dispelled by the recent unpleasantness in Charlottesville, as some are calling this summer\'s leadership crisis at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia's rector, Helen E. Dragas, appears to have considered leaving the school's Board of Visitors during the crisis surrounding this summer's temporary removal of President Teresa A. Sullivan, but ultimately rejected the notion.
The University of Virginia released more than 1,200 pages of e-mails and other documents Friday that contained hundreds of calls from alumni, faculty and others for the leader of the governing board, Rector Helen E. Dragas, to resign.
Over 800 hours of recently released recordings from the Lyndon Johnson White House reveal how President John F. Kennedy's successor guided the country through the most difficult stages of the civil rights era. The recordings, recently made available by the University of Virginia's Miller Center, include conversations Johnson had with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and other key players who shaped that era.
The University of Virginia's Center for Politics is calling Romney's choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate bold and says it is a huge surprise but a strategic move. It is a choice that may swing Virginia as a battleground state.
The University of Virginia is hosting a three-day international conference on social inequality issues. The International Sociological Association's conference on "Labor Market and Educational Transitions in Uncertain Times" is scheduled to begin Monday.
Construction is nearly complete on an advanced manufacturing research center in Prince George County. Officials with the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing say the 60,000-square-foot facility is expected to open in early September. The center will do research for a group of manufacturers under a partnership with Virginia Tech, Virginia State University and the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia had debuted a list of products that are all based on research done at the school. The directory, called the Product Pipeline, contains 72 products ranging from business products to computer software to medical devices, detailing where each one stands in various stages of development.
As the governing board at University of Virginia meets this week for the first time since the campus was plunged into crisis, some faculty and alumni are calling for a thorough examination of the events that led to the failed ouster of President Teresa Sullivan. Others want to just move on.
Students at the University of Virginia returning from summer break are causing a surge in business for truck rental companies, but at the same time, are leaving storage companies at a loss.
Cmdr. Andrew Biehn
Who graduated in 1995
Change of command aboard Norfolk-based Truxton
The Virginian-Pilot / August 9
Ben Kohles
Who played college golf at the University of Virginia
Two starts, two wins for newbie
Ottawa Citizen / August 8
Robert Pianta
Dean of the Curry School of Education
Online Education Degrees Now Dwarf Traditional Universities
TechCrunch / August 9
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Don't count Romney out of 2012 election
Opelousas Daily World / August 9
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Obama holds slight edge in Virginia, poll shows
GoDanRiver.com / August 10
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Kyle Kondik
A political analyst for the Center for Politics
Bowen Sargent
Head Coach of the men's golf program
The Virginia Cavaliers had a great season in 2011. UVa finished the season with an 8-5 record and ended a four year bowl game drought. A lot of the credit for this goes to head coach Mike London, who has quickly turned the program around since replacing former coach Al Groh. London has done an excellent job of recruiting over the past two years. One of the good consequences of that recruiting is competition at certain positions. The Cavaliers have three quarterbacks jockeying for the starting position (Michael Rocco, Phillip Sims, and David Watford). Rocco is the incumbent starter. He had a so...
Jim Reid is not exactly Ralph Sampson when it comes to height. The Virginia defensive coordinator with lots of personality coaches low to the ground, having to routinely glance up to talk technique with his players. For C.J. Moore, however, there's no stepladder needed. "He and I might look at each other eye to eye, which is not good," Reid said.
In the last two months, the University of Virginia has released scores of e-mails that were exchanged between top leaders in the months leading up to the failed ouster of President Teresa Sullivan in June. These e-mails, which are public records, were requested by reporters who are searching for clues as to what exactly happened and why.
As the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors prepares to meet for the first time next week since the attempted ouster of President Teresa Sullivan threw the campus into turmoil in June, a group of alumni issued a letter accusing the board of breaching its corporate duties. Although Sullivan was reinstated 16 days after her forced resignation, the letter sent to the board on Wednesday says “… The crisis is not over. It will not end until the board acknowledges publicly that U.Va suffered a significant failure of corporate governance; and it will not end until board members finally explain ...
A 2008 Fordham Institute report found that, while low-achieving students have made gains under No Child Left Behind, advanced-learners were “languishing.” A 1991 study at the University of Connecticut found that between 18 and 25 percent of gifted and talented students drop out of school. The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented in a project involving the University of Connecticut, the University of Virginia, and Yale University reported that the dropouts were 27 percentblack, 17.9 percent Hispanic and 50 percent came from the lowest socio-economic status quartile. If not adequa...
Bill Wulf is one of the nation’s best known computer scientists: a member of professional academies in eight countries and a past president of the National Academy of Engineering. The walls of his office are covered with diplomas, awards and photographs with prominent people. “That’s a board that I served on – it’s the construction company that built the Alaska pipeline, and actually we’re sitting there in an unfinished, new Pittsburgh Airport.” Wulf is 72 but he had no plans to retire. He was teaching and working on a textbook, but earlier this summer, after nearly 35 years at the Universi...