The idea that emotions affect learning has made its way into teaching approaches, but not across the board. “Most teachers are trained in a way that emphasizes students’ academic development,” says Sara Rimm-Kaufman, a researcher at the University of Virginia, “not the relation between students’ social and academic development or the way in which students’ social and emotional development relates to their academic learning.” American kindergarteners are now expected to learn a lot in the way of reading and numbers, so teachers face more and more demand...
(Editorial) Guided by their professors and a university librarian, a group of law students at the University of Virginia sued the federal government for release of documents in a sealed “nonprosecution” case — and won. Now they’re pursuing a similar effort in 30 other cases.
After a decade of providing the halftime entertainment for home football and soccer games, the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Marching Band will take a bigger stage next year: the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. On that day in 2015, the band will play in front of more than three million people on the streets of New York City, and another 50 million on television around the country, parade organizers said.
College students with fathers who were involved in their lives were 98 percent more likely to graduate than students with uninvolved fathers. This was one of the findings presented Wednesday by W. Bradford Wilcox at an American Enterprise Institute presentation, "Graduation day: How dads' involvement impacts higher education success."
After 34 years in orthopedic surgery at the University of Virginia Hospital, Dr. Dick Whitehill decided to hang up his scalpel, pick up a Penn rod and reel and go fishing. Instead of Dr. Whitehill, it’s Captain Whitehill, as the charter boat captain now performs his operations in fishing waters around the Middle Peninsula and in the middle Chesapeake Bay.
Here is a list of some of the most impressive or amusing commencement speakers nationwide in this year’s graduation commencements.: 4. Peyton Manning. The Denver Broncos quarterback will speak – not at his alma mater in Tennessee, but at the University of Virginia.
(Editorial) Universities across the U.S. have implemented educational campaigns to teach students about pedestrian safety: Indiana University’s “Street Smart” campaign partners with local bars and restaurants to promote street safety; the University of Tennessee’s “Safe-T Begins with Me” educates students about alcohol moderation and safe driving; and the University of Virginia’s “HOOS Crossing” campaign distributes informational safety fliers and buttons to its students. It’s about time for this university to follow suit and create i...
(Press release) The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) today honored innovators, creators, and defenders of intellectual property at the 2nd Annual IP Champions Conference in recognition of their significant contributions to promoting and protecting IP. Among the winners: U.Va. Innovation, University of Virginia, for their work in bridging the gap from innovation and entrepreneurship, with examples like scientist Reza Monazami who developed a technology which mitigates temperatures emitted by our electronics, causing them to operate cooler, more efficient...
(By University of Virginia political scientist Deborah Boucoyannis) “Marx Rises Again,” “The new Marxism,” “Thomas Piketty and Millennial Marxists”: with a title like “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” it is not surprising that the specter of “Marxism” is looming over Thomas Piketty’s “monumental” blockbuster. Especially given its author’s prescription, with Emmanuel Saez, of 80 percent taxation on the top 1 percent of income earners. Yet the author sees himself as “Taking on Adam Smith (and Karl Marx...
I wrote to some of the leading experts on affirmative action and higher education law to get their takes on the ruling. Several suggested that its most immediate impact will be in the six other states that, like Michigan, have passed ballot initiatives banning affirmative action: Arizona, Florida, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Washington. Any attempt to challenge those bans is now “futile,” Robert M. O’Neil of The University of Virginia School of Law wrote in an e-mail.
A.E. Dick Howard, a constitutional law expert at the University of Virginia, said there would have to be a way to keep essential functions of government operating. He noted that the constitution vests the chief executive with certain powers that “at least raise the question of whether the governor has some inherent power to save the commonwealth from destruction. … The constitution is not a suicide pact. No matter what the language of the constitution, it simply does not make sense to read it as saying the governor’s hands are tied, rendering him helpless based on a clear da...
Virginia universities consider race as part of a “holistic” review of a student during the admissions process, but that practice will not be changed immediately, if at all, by Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Both the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary acknowledge race may be a factor in admissions. U.Va. adheres to a 2003 Supreme Court decision, also from Michigan, that allows for racial preferences but not quotas, spokesman McGregor McCance said. The university uses an “individualized and holistic approach” that focuses on many factor...
Other pundits that project Senate races see the Louisiana race this way: The fivethirtyeight.com website lists Republicans with a 55 percent chance of capturing the Louisiana Senate race, while the Cook Political Report, Roth Political Report and University of Virginia Political scientist Larry Sabato all list the Louisiana Senate race as a tossup.
It is too simplistic to break this down as a fight between "establishment" and "anti-establishment" candidates, said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst with the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "It runs deeper than that," he said. "There are people, both in the tea party and just conservative Republicans, who are naturally suspicious of people who aren't 100 percent ideologically conservative."
(By W. Bradford Wilcox, professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project) This month, millions of high school seniors across America are making important decisions about which college they will attend for the next four years of their life. Based on my professional experience talking to high school students considering attending the University of Virginia, where I teach sociology, many of these seniors seem unaware of how much their chances of collegiate success depend not on their hard work or capabilities, but on whether their parents made certain sacrifices to support the...
Tuesday is Earth Day and the University of Virginia marked the occasion with a big expo held at Newcomb Hall. The theme of the Earth Week Expo was "the challenge of change." Organizers say the goal was to showcase sustainability projects - focused on spreading knowledge and taking action.
Last month, the analysts at the University of Virginia’s Institute of Politics that run the Crystal Ball, a website of political prognostication, began testing the waters for other candidates against top Republican leaders. They found that Jeb Bush’s name kept coming up. “When we mentioned other names on our list—governors and incumbent senators—we were surprised at the extent to which these top leaders only wanted to talk about Jeb Bush,” says Kyle Kondik, a spokesman for the institute. “We now consider Bush the leader of the field if he decides to ru...
The rector of The University of Virginia, George Keith Martin, dubbed Donna P. Henry "Henry the Eighth," a light-hearted yet official proclamation making it so. Inauguration ceremonies were staged Tuesday to formally install Henry as the eighth chancellor of The University of Virginia's College at Wise.
College success and graduation is more likely for those students who had dads actively involved in their lives while they were in high school, according to sociologist and National Marriage Project director Brad Wilcox.