The University of Virginia may have settled its most urgent controversy by reinstating President Teresa Sullivan after initially forcing her out. But still unresolved is one issue underlying her ouster: whether the university was too slow to join the stampede of schools into the world of online education. Many other schools share the concern and wonder if the technology will live up to its hype.
The United States Olympic Swim team officially added former UVA swimmer Matt McLean (College, '11) to the roster Monday night as part of the 800-meter freestyle relay team. McLean finished fifth in the 200-meter free at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha Wednesday night.
LaRue, who specializes in core performance, is a registered nurse and athletic trainer with a master’s degree in exercise physiology and sports medicine from the University of Virginia.
A retired Marine Corps colonel who flew Marine One for both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama has been appointed to head the Department of Education's Office of School Facilities and Support Services. Ray L'Heureux, whose 30-year military career included several high-level positions, holds an MBA from U.Va.
Martin Davidson
Associate professor at the Darden School
Why MBAs, and B-Schools, Need to Embrace Failure
Bloomberg Businessweek / July 2
Kyle Kondik
Center for Politics
Romney romp won't help House GOP
Washington Examiner / July 2
Larry Sabato
Commonwealth Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics
McDonnell to lead platform committee at GOP convention
Richmond Times-Dispatch / July
Dr. David Kaufman, associate professor of pediatrics, reviews a CDC study showing a decrease in fungal infections among newborns thanks to various infection control methods.
Co-authored by Martha Derthick
Professor emerita of government
Most Title IX litigation has focused on providing equal opportunities for participation by female athletes, [but] Parker v. Franklin County Community School Corp. raises the novel question of whether scheduling can constitute a violation of the statute.
The issues behind the dismissal and reinstatement of UVA president Teresa Sullivan are similar to those at universities across the country, writes U.Va. associate professor Cammy Brothers. She discusses the role and future of public universities.
Cites a 2006 U.Va. Health System pilot study that found male teens drove more attentively with a manual transmission
The study, called SHINE, uses an adaptive method of assigning stroke survivors to a target blood sugar level in the first day after their stroke – with the goal of finding out how much impact blood sugar control has on how well the patients do overall. The study was designed by researchers at the University of Virginia, Medical College of Georgia, University of Texas Southwestern, and the NETT Statistical and Data Management Center at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Do you know what happened in June … 200 years ago? Lots other people don’t either. That's why U.Va. historian John Stagg will be our guest talking about his newest book, The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent.
By Dorrie Fontaine
Dean of the School of Nursing
These are heady days to be a nurse. With a two-year-old mandate from the Institute of Medicine calling for us to practice at the highest level of our profession, achieve independence from physician oversight as we diagnose, prescribe, and treat sick patients, and care for patients with increasingly complex cases, nurses are poised like never before to continue their march toward the center of health care delivery. It’s high time.
University of Virginia researchers are working to develop a way to help preschool teachers address students with challenging behaviors. The Charlottesville school says researchers have received a new three-year, $1.27 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences.
What happened at the University of Virginia is probably going to happen again somewhere else. It likely won’t take the same form – the removal and reinstatement of a university president. But somewhere, sometime, probably sooner rather than later, the governing board of a public university, claiming to be acting to move the university forward and addressing 21st-century challenges, is going to make a move that upsets faculty members and other traditional university stakeholders.
One of the reasons mentioned for the firing of President Teresa Sullivan of the University of Virginia (She has since been restored to the presidency in a highly visible and, embarrassing to the University of Virginia, series of maneuvers) was her slowness in moving the university toward distance education. While distance education is well established as a part of higher education worldwide, it remains somewhat controversial. More important, it is not clear that research universities can or should heavily invest in distance education.
The Atlanta Hawks took former UVA star Mike Scott (College '12) with the 43rd pick in the NBA Draft Thursday night, and now Scott is preparing for his pro life.
The Senate has confirmed the appointment of the first U.S. ambassador to Myanmar in 22 years. Derek Mitchell (College '86, foreign affairs) has served as President Barack Obama's special envoy to military-dominated Myanmar since August to encourage democratic reforms.
The Orioles reached contract agreements with three draft picks today, coming to terms with second-round pick Branden Kline, a pitcher from the University of Virginia, along with fourth-rounder first baseman Christian Walker and seventh-round pick pitcher Matt Price. Both Walker and Price played at the University of South Carolina.
Founder Paul Tudor Jones (College '76, economics) won’t be among the 14 portfolio managers of the Tudor Discretionary Macro Portfolios, which was seeded with $150 million from the firm, said the people, who asked not to be named because the information is private. Jones oversees two other funds, including the main Tudor BVI Global, which has $9 billion in assets.
Micaela Connery (College \'09) leads a Hartford, Conn., nonprofit that works in 35 schools and is poised to go expand around the country, with a simple, inclusive idea: Put on a play and let the students — all sorts of kids — run the show.