Three friends who came to Jackie’s aide said her description of what happened to her that night differs from what she told Rolling Stone. In addition, information Jackie gave the three friends about one of her attackers, called “Drew” in the magazine’s article, differ significantly from details she later told The Post, Rolling Stone and friends from sexual assault awareness groups on campus. The three said Jackie did not specifically identify a fraternity that night.
C.J. Libassi analyzes the benefits of full-day kindergarten described in a new randomized study by Chloe R. Gibbs, at the University of Virginia. The preliminary results show that full-day kindergarten is beneficial for all children, especially for Hispanic children.
A religious freedom bill that sailed through the House in a lame-duck session of the Michigan Legislature is being widely criticized as legalizing discrimination against gay people. University of Virginia Law professor Douglas Laycock, a legal scholar and religious liberty advocate, told The Lansing News/MLive criticism against the bill is “way overblown.”
A Haitian presidential commission is recommending sweeping changes, including a new prime minister and government to stabilize the country. “The commission offers a way out of the crisis if Michel Martelly accepts all of its recommendations; but then we will deal with new complicated negotiations about the new electoral council, the new prime minister and the new head of the Supreme Court,” said Robert Fatton, a Haiti expert at the University of Virginia.
Everybody knows somebody who refuses do their business in a public restroom because public restrooms are ew. Contrary to popular belief, a recent study found public bathrooms are not that dirty compared to the rest of your environment. Your hands, the floor, stuffed between couch cushions — these are all places your remote has lived, probably for extended periods of time. You might have coughed or sneezed on it without realizing. A University of Virginia study that looked at cold viruses on household surfaces found TV remotes to be among the germiest, so wipe that sucker d...
Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today that Virginia has been awarded a $17.5 million federal Preschool Expansion Grant that will allow the Commonwealth to serve as many as 1,600 additional at-risk four-year-olds in new, high-quality preschool classes. The grant also will fund a state-level effort — led by the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning at the University of Virginia (UVA) — to improve preparation and professional development for preschool teachers and administrators.
Palma Pustilnik, an attorney at Central Virginia Legal Aid Society in Charlottesville, has been retained as counsel to the woman identified as "Jackie" in the Rolling Stone article. The article, titled "A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA," highlights what they call a "culture of rape" at the University of Virginia.
When it comes to landing a job with your MBA degree, where a business school ranks tends to matter. Most schools, however, reported stable or improved job offer rates. The University of Virginia’s Darden School reported a five-percentage-point gain to 95% from 90%.
Ranked No. 2 out of the top 10 schools in Virginia by College Factual, the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819, is a public research university dedicated to developing the next generation of leaders. U.Va. offers 56 undergraduate degree programs spread through 11 different schools.
The University of Virginia will keep its ban on the school’s fraternities in place until Jan. 9, amid calls from national fraternal groups for an immediate end to the suspensions.
There are new questions over the story of an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. The father of the alleged victim called "Jackie" is angry that Rolling Stone admitted mistakes in that article. CBS News correspondent Julianna Goldman reports from the campus, where one of Jackie's friends, Alex Pinkleton, is also criticizing the magazine and standing by her friend's story.
After almost 40 years, former Virginia Governor Gerald Baliles is now taking a step back from it all. The director of the University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs is stepping down on December 31.
The University of Virginia Center for Politics’ Global Perspectives on Democracy program is recruiting local students, educators and adult youth leaders to visit Argentina, Chile and Brazil as part of the U.S. Youth Ambassadors Program.
Six humanities projects in Virginia have received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, Massanutten Regional Library in Harrisonburg and Fauquier County's parks and recreation department also received grants.
Michigan lawmakers have long discussed adding statewide protections for gay residents, but the latest business-backed effort stalled last week amidst a dispute over transgender-specific language. But those characterizations are “way overblown,” according to University of Virginia School of Law professor Douglas Laycock, a legal scholar and religious liberty advocate who is supporting the Michigan bill.
A recent released report highlights research-driven practices proven effective in public pre-kindergarten programs across the country, and comparing how Texas’ pre-k program stacks up. “Pre-Kindergarten for the Modern Age: A scalable, affordable, high-quality plan for Texas” was prepared by Dr. Robert Pianta, Dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and a leading expert on early childhood education.
University of Virginia School of Law professor Brandon Garrett analyzed data on corporate prosecutions from the last two decades, and while he found that penalties have spiked in the years since the collapse of Enron, he was surprised at how “inconsistent” and “lenient” corporate punishments were, he writes in his book Too Big to Jail.
The University of Virginia on Monday outlined steps it plans to take for campus safety, part of its effort to respond to questions raised in recent weeks following a magazine article about an alleged gang rape at a fraternity.
The University of Virginia’s suspension of social activities at fraternities and sororities will remain in effect until early January despite doubts raised about the magazine article that prompted the action, school officials said Monday.
On Sunday, three national fraternity and sorority organizations called upon the University of Virginia to lift and apologize for its ban of Greek life activities, imposed after the furor surrounding a Rolling Stone article, whose accuracy is now in dispute after the magazine said its reporting was inadequate. In a statement released Monday afternoon, the university neither lifted its suspension of Greek activities nor apologized for it, saying the purpose of the ban was “to give the university and Greek leadership a pause to identify solutions.”