Research has shown that school suspensions are linked to higher dropout rates and an increased risk of incarceration, and a new study by UVA education professor Dewey Cornell and the Legal Aid Justice Center brings more bad news: Black male students are suspended for minor infractions at more than twice the rate of white males.
California’s program increased the probability that mothers in that state would be back at work within nine months to a year after giving birth, according to research by Christopher J. Ruhm, professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and Charles L. Baum, professor of economics at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.
(By Julian Bond, professor emeritus of history) I hosted NBC'S Saturday Night Live back in April 1977, during its second season. I used to say that I was an SNL host when it was a comedy show, and people would laugh. More recently, I had taken to saying that I hosted SNL when it had black people on it. So as a former host, I was happy to read the news that an African-American woman (Sasheer Zamata) and two black female writers (LaKendra Tookes and Leslie Jones) were hired for the show because people of color, especially women, have been conspicuous by their absence.
A White House meeting of higher education leaders Thursday will spotlight a plethora of efforts to draw more students from low-income families into college, one of President Obama’s top priorities. Among them is the College Advising Corps, a program that sent Alexandria Johnston, 21, a brand-new graduate from the University of Virginia, to southern Virginia to help disadvantaged high school students navigate the labyrinths of applying to college and obtaining financial aid.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Wednesday recognized a University of Virginia professor who contributed to the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the Higgs boson particle. Brad Cox, a professor of physics at UVa, was named one of two outstanding scientists for 2014 for his contribution to the massive worldwide project searching for the evidence of a subatomic particle first theorized in the 1960s.
A group of University of Virginia students had come up with a bill to improve mental health services at state colleges. The students drafted a bill requiring incoming students to fill out an online form covering their schools mental health services.
“How rare, how wondrous it is for a poet to get a rise out of our dozing populace!” said Rita Dove, former U.S. poet laureate and English professor at the University of Virginia. “Whether one agreed with Amiri Baraka’s politics, and often I did not, his ability to rouse the complacent and disgruntled alike from their respective torpor was as undeniable as his artistic fervor. It’s impossible to imagine the Black Arts movement without his fiery presence and piercing poems, which then, in turn, enabled so many younger poets. In my early days as a writer, he provoked...
(Video) On this edition of UVa Today Bob Beard talks with Dr. Marcus Martin about upcoming events that honor Civil Rights leader Dr. King. The University of Virginia is celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr with events all around Grounds.
Karen Van Lengen is an architect and the Kenan Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia. Recently, as a Fellow at the University’s Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities, she has been developing a project called Soundscape Architecture, which she describes as “an interpretative web-based project that listens to and records the sounds of iconic spaces of architecture, and then interprets them visually, acoustically, and aurally.” Van Lengen took me on a walk through a few of New York City’s notable soundscapes and reflected on why designers ...
Candidates are battling to the wire and rallying voters in Northern Virginia, but few residents have taken notice. "Considering we just had a gubernatorial election in Virginia ... the public isn't, understandably, thinking it's election season," says Geoffrey Skelley, spokesman for the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
Royal says waits are long for an appointment at Richmond’s free clinic, and if she misses work, she won’t get paid. Carolyn Engelhard gets that. She’s director of the Health Policy Program at the University of Virginia. Not every community has a free clinic, she says, and those clinics – which are staffed mostly by volunteers -- can’t provide the kind of comprehensive and continuous care that people need. “Some of them can be cared for at the free clinic, and I serve on the board of the free clinic and have for the last decade, but the free...
A proposal in the state legislature to expand the size of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors Executive Committee will go to a vote in the Virginia House of Delegates. House Bill 465, sponsored by Henrico County Republican Delegate Jimmie Massie, would increase the executive committee's maximum membership size from six to seven. Massie was asked to carry the legislation on behalf of the university.
In the end, marriage promotion might still be a fine idea, but it clearly needs more research. “Most public policy efforts in the beginning stages don’t work,” said Bradford Wilcox, who runs the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. He drew a comparison to pre-K programs, which liberals have embraced fervently, but have shown mixed results so far. It takes time to figure out successful policy models, he said.
Christopher Hulleman, Professor at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, agreed. “STEM disciplines can be so masculine, and there’s also this presence of strong gender stereotypes, so females enter this masculine area, and not only do they have to act differently to fit in,” Hulleman said, “but then there’s a stereotype of what they’re going to be like as females, so it’s a double-whammy that they can experience.”
Others to be honored at the jamboree include University of Virginia soccer coach Steve Swanson, the College Coach of the Year winner, who led the Cavaliers to their best soccer season in school history with 24 wins.
Research by University of Virginia Law School professor Toby Heytens, soon to be published in the Stanford Law Review, underscores the aberrant nature of the panel’s removal order. Heytens found that appeals court replacements of trial judges have been highly unusual.
A former UNC-Chapel Hill trustee has landed a top position in the university’s administration. Felicia Washington, an attorney with K&L Gates in Charlotte and a U.Va. Law graduate, has been appointed the vice chancellor for workforce strategy, equity and engagement, the division formerly known as human resources, the university announced Tuesday.
“For change to be endemic and sustained usually takes three to five years,” says William Robinson, executive director of the University of Virginia Partnership for Leadership in Education, which runs a program that trains principals as turnaround specialists. “You want either a consistent leader for at least five years or a systemic succession plan where there is continuity of effort across at least five years.”
Virginia’s law that allows families to opt out of public education for religious reasons needs further study, according to a Republican state legislator. A recent study of school superintendents by the University of Virginia School of Law found confusion about how to comply with the law, a lack of accounting of how many children are affected and that the exemption was often routinely granted.
Officials say National Instruments has joined the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing as its 17th industry member. The Texas company helps engineers and scientists develop innovations and solutions for energy, aerospace, automotive and other industries. It serves 35,000 companies worldwide. The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing does research for a group of manufacturing companies under a partnership with Virginia Tech, Virginia State University and the University of Virginia.