Now a new fight has begun over Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe's pick to be the new chairman of the state Democratic party: Dwight Jones, mayor of Richmond. Back in 2012, he issued a statement opposing President Obama's support of same-sex unions. University of Virginia Center for Politics analyst Geoff Skelley says that's causing a backlash in the party. "It's strange, at least in the sense of messaging and the kind of message that Democrats have been sending," Skelley says. "For them to now do this is a little bit... it just seems counterproductive for what...
In the 2010 elections, GOP politicians who supported the bailout were pilloried. And this year, the issue has been raised against GOP candidates in Virginia, Kentucky and Louisiana. As a result, Republicans are “running as fast as their legs can carry them in the other direction,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
“Allowing customers to enter information via a secure offshore website would have saved time for the co-conspirators,” said Maggie Sullivan, a third-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law and intern with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia.
Dee Elementary School in Ogden School District has been the lowest-performing school in the state for years, but in 2010 the district was given a multi-million-dollar improvement grant to help failing schools, like Dee, succeed. “Our students wanted to learn so badly they just didn’t know how to be successful,” said Sondra Jolovich-Motes, who is the principal at Dee Elementary School. With the funds, Motes was sent to a special leadership program at the University of Virginia. She came back with training and began research on the school’s teachers and students.
“I was surprised that she did that,” said Geoffrey Skelley, an associate editor for a political newsletter based at the University of Virginia. “She not only wanted to make a statement about what's going on in Ukraine, but she also wanted to make a very bold one that kind of asserted herself.”
The University of Virginia will share the results of a student housing study with Charlottesville City Council Wednesday night. The university hired consultants to survey 2,500 students about the need for residence halls and off-grounds apartments.
Some academics questioned whether Malloy, the former longtime mayor of Stamford, would get a bounce from Obama's visit. "I don't necessarily know if that moves the needle one way or another," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
“In Cornyn’s case, there simply wasn’t much objective evidence that he was anything other than a strong conservative – if voting records count for anything,” said Larry J. Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist. “And Stockman was an inadequate challenger, to put it kindly.” He added, “But the Tea Party and its very conservative allies are still strong in Texas, as some other results indicated. They’ll be around for a long time in some form or another in the Lone Star State.”
It won’t be easy for a governor who’s never been a favorite of the right. "They’ve got an alphabet soup of reasons not to like him. And that was without Bridgegate," said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
The Virginia Department of Education announced Wednesday that it plans to grant more than $2.1 million to 10 partnerships statewide between school divisions, colleges and universities to help enhance content knowledge and hone classroom skills of teachers in science, technology, engineering and math – a program also known as STEM. Culpeper County Public Schools will partner with the University of Virginia, the Virginia School University Partnership and Jefferson Lab via a $227,069 grant for the course “Developing Grades 6-12 Science Teacher Leaders’ Understanding of Elecricit...
The British may have lost the colonies in 1781. But the tale of their defeat has just won a prestigious literary honor, thanks to Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s study “The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire,” which has been awarded the New-York Historical Society’s annual American history book prize.
(By Ashley Deeks, law professor) Russian forces have seized control of Crimea and reportedly are digging trenches in the land bridge that connects Crimea with the rest of Ukraine. Is this a flagrant violation of international law regulating the use of force, or does Russia have some credible justification for what it’s done?
“Three tactics help me,” says Angie Hasemann, a pediatric dietitian at the University of Virginia Children’s Fitness Clinic and president of the Virginia Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. One: She keeps fruit in her car for post-exercise snacks when that starvation feeling hits. Two: She kicks off her brown-bag lunch with fruits and vegetables before she digs into the main dish. “They take the edge off my appetite, slow my pace of eating and help me eat my fill.” Three: She sneaks vegetables into unlikely dishes, such as diced onions, raw squash and zucchini in ...
Fees are so high that they outweigh the tax benefits of investing in the plan. This is perhaps the most startling conclusion of the Ayres study, co-authored by Quinn Curtis of the University of Virginia Law School.
The University of Virginia would have to pay an additional $5 million annually to the state retirement system under budget proposals being discussed in the General Assembly. The Senate and the House of Delegates have passed separate state budget plans. Both plans would increase the university's contribution to the Virginia Retirement System from about 8.7 percent to about 12.3 percent. That would cost the university another $5 million per year. Much of that funding would have to come from tuition increases, said Colette Sheehy, the university's vice president for management and budgets...
The University of Virginia would have to pay out an additional $5 million annually to the state retirement system under the budget proposals being discussed in the General Assembly.
it could be a few weeks before the Valley and Virginia are safe from snowstorms. Jerry Stenger, director of the state climatology office at the University of Virginia, said March is a historically heavy snow month. "March is very much a player in the winter weather scene even thought climatologically it is past winter,'' Stenger said.
According to a recent New York Times Op-Ed, cohabitation in the U.S. is now less about prophylaxis than it is a risk in and of itself. “In a nationwide survey conducted in 2001 by the National Marriage Project, then at Rutgers and now at the University of Virginia, nearly half of 20-somethings agreed with the statement, ‘You would only marry someone if he or she agreed to live together with you first, so that you could find out whether you really get along.’ About two-thirds said they believed that moving in together before marriage was a good way to avoid divorce. But that b...
The Darden School of Business is ranked No. 10 in the world in “potential to network.”