Democrats are hoping that Donald Trump’s behavior on the campaign trail may be able to help them with military voters in Virginia. Geoff Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics says veterans tend to be more white and more male than the population in general, which means they’re more Republican.
"[Kaine’s] approach was very centrist. He tried to support trade agreements that helped the state's economy, he tried to support equal opportunity and things that enhance economic opportunity for individuals," said Bill Shobe, director of the Center for Economic and Policy Studies and a UVA professor of public policy. "His approach was very much in the political mainstream, and I think we can expect that from his as vice president."
Two major college rankings – MONEY‘s and U.S. News & World Report‘s – agree that Princeton University is the nation’s best college in 2016. But because the two rankings value different things, they rank many other universities very differently. One major difference can be seen among public universities. The University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, and the University of Virginia, for example, all score higher in MONEY’s rankings.
UVA’s College at Wise has earned a worthwhile distinction: It is ranked first nationally in public liberal arts colleges for graduating students with low debt (based on the latest U.S. News & World-Report annual college guide data).
Dominion Virginia Power says it wants to develop offshore wind power, but the high cost of installation would make it far more expensive than electricity produced by burning fossil fuels or operating a nuclear plant. The utility also wonders how well offshore turbines would fare during a hurricane. Now, engineers at the University of Virginia have come up with a design that could solve both of those problems.
UVA’s Miller Center on Tuesday released two new papers by prominent higher education researchers that seek to make states’ higher education dollars go farther and to improve degree completion rates. They are two of six new papers prepared for the National Commission on Financing 21st Century Higher Education.
The episode underscores the perils of the "inclination towards secrecy" that has colored Clinton's campaign, says Kyle Kondik, managing editor of UVA’s political newsletter, Sabato's Crystal Ball.
Brian Balogh, a UVA professor, said that while the pneumonia appeared to be a “relatively minor health issue,” it would cast a long shadow given that Clinton had dismissed questions about her health as right-wing conspiracies.
In the changing context of higher education in the United States, leaders spend most of their time raising funds and dealing with an array of regulations and legal issues. It is like working for a corporation, just one that is not for profit. Dean Scott C. Beardsley of UVA’s Darden School of Business, who spent 26 years at consultancy firm McKinsey & Company, was recently in India and spoke about his upcoming book that discusses the rise of the non-traditional leader in educational institutions and making way for 'future-ready' leaders.
The history of the presidency includes a running thread of illness and incapacity, much of it hidden from the public out of political calculation. Such situations point to another subtle change in American politics, said Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor in presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center: vice presidents are more carefully vetted, and are more intimately involved with the operations of the government, than they were a century ago.
(By David A. Martin, professor emeritus of law) Donald Trump has made empowering local police to enforce federal immigration law a key part of his campaign. He apparently hasn’t been paying attention to what local jurisdictions have been doing over the past 10 years.
Thanks to the Food Hub and a student group, Greens to Grounds, UVA is offering a 100 percent local foods option to diners this fall.
President Teresa Sullivan outlined UVA’s ambitions at a state of the university address Monday afternoon.
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan delivered her State of the University address on Monday. In her address, Sullivan focused on what achievements the school has made in the past year, including hiring more diverse faculty members and making significant advancements in research.
The University of Virginia is the second-best public university in the nation, according to the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report. UVA tied for No. 2 with the University of California-Los Angeles, reclaiming the spot it lost last year, when it fell behind UCLA for the No. 3 ranking.
(Co-written by Meg Heubeck, director of instruction for the Youth Leadership Initiative at UVA’s Center for Politics) Millennials may be turned off by the current political system – but now there’s a new platform to engage them. America’s Mock Election was created in the summer of 2015 in reaction to this pattern of nonparticipation in state, federal and local elections.
(By Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics) When the Founding Fathers created our electoral system, they might have been surprised to discover, more than two centuries later, that these two things could be true at the same time: One, that the country had embraced mass democracy, including giving the franchise to men and women of all races, incomes and classes; and two, that despite doing that, the country was still using the Electoral College system that they had implemented at the dawn of the country – a system not designed with the intention of promoting mass democracy.
UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan looked forward to the school’s bicentennial celebration during her annual address to the Faculty Senate on Monday.