The University of Virginia will offer two new degree programs this fall. At the beginning of the next academic year, students at the Curry School of Education will have the option of majoring in Youth and Social Innovation. The School of Continuing and Professional Studies will offer an online, part-time degree program in Health Sciences Management. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia approved the programs at a meeting in Richmond Tuesday.
We've compiled a list of some of the most beautiful and iconic examples of American campus quads. (The Lawn makes the list.)
President Obama will convene a meeting with more than 100 college and university presidents Thursday -- a chance for his administration to pivot away from its stalled legislative agenda to executive actions and also a rare opportunity for White House-level attention for a large group of academic leaders. … The administration has specifically been interested, officials have said, in the academic scholarship on the undermatching issue completed by Caroline Hoxby, Sarah Turner and Christopher Avery.
Enrollment at the state’s public universities is flat this academic year, with an overall increase of just 27 students for the fall semester at four-year institutions. At the University of Virginia, undergraduate enrollment increased from 14,641 in fall 2012 to 14,898 last fall, while graduate student enrollment declined from 6,454 to 6,340 over the same period, according to a UVa spokesman. Total enrollment at UVa is up, to 21,238, from 21,095 in 2012.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine are investigating why oral polio vaccines are only about half as effective in developing countries.
Two state lawmakers want to allow public colleges to shield their internal investigations into employment discrimination complaints. State Sen. Frank M. Ruff Jr., R-Clarksville, says he filed the legislation at the request of the University of Virginia. Likewise, a legislative aide in the office of Delegate C. Todd Gilbert, R-Woodstock, who filed companion legislation in the House of Delegates, says the legislation was drafted at the request of U.Va. administrators.
If you weren’t one of the lucky people to hear U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey speak at the Library of Congress in May, here’s the next best thing: The new issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review features an essay based on her speech called “Necessary Utterance: On Poetry as a Cultural Force.”
I thought this cheer sheet prepared by Duke students for other Duke students in advance of Monday night’s meeting with Virginia was notable in that it largely skipped past the suggested taunts part of the cheer sheet in favor of just straight-up insults about the school and its traditions, insults that seemed unlikely to generate much in the way of clever cheers, unless there are many excellent cheers that involve Thomas Jefferson quotations and dissertations on the amenities of certain campus housing options.
It’s only about a five-minute car ride from the campus of the University of Virginia to the Main Street Arena, home of the Charlottesville, Va. Figure Skating Club. But for Christopher Ali, the drive takes him all the way back to Winnipeg, Manitoba. That’s where Ali, currently an Assistant Professor in the University’s Department of Media Studies, got his start on the ice, taking his first Learn to Skate class at age six.
Encouraging a ‘star’ culture in investment banking is one of the fastest ways for companies to erode their reputation with clients, suggests an academic study released last year by Zhaohui Chen and William Wilheim of the University of Virginia and Alan Morrison of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, and junior bankers are more guilty than most in trying to distinguish themselves from their peers without thinking through the consequences.
Faced with a recalcitrant Congress and a constrained budget, President Obama and his top aides are increasingly working to mobilize an outside coalition of corporate, nonprofit and academic groups to promote White House economic and social policies. The strategy will be on display Thursday as the White House holds a summit with more than 100 college and university presidents, who will promise to enroll more low-income students and ensure that they graduate.
(By Michael Lenox, associate dean and academic director of the Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business) I recently completed teaching the second session of my Foundations of Business Strategy massively open online course (MOOC) through the Coursera platform and I continue to be amazed by the reach and impact of MOOCs.
Representatives of local environmental and business groups gave a warm welcome to University of Virginia’s School of Architecture students Monday as they began a weeklong design study of the U.S. 29 corridor from Ivy Road to the South Fork Rivanna River.
That leaves the lower courts to spin their own "ad-hoc, often inconsistent, and sometimes ill-considered" conclusions, says Rachel Harmon, a professor of law at the University of Virginia. They support a bullet fired in Newark, perhaps, and find a similar shot unconstitutional in Trenton. The result, she says, is a national patchwork, one where "many unconstitutional uses of force go uncompensated and undeterred."
The Charlottesville Women's Four Miler is celebrating a fundraising first. Participants raised $370,000 to support the University of Virginia Cancer Center's breast care program. The group presented the check to the center Monday night.
The University of Virginia has a host of events scheduled in January to commemorate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. This schedule kicks off January 19 with the 29th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration.
Thirteen House members since fall have announced that they will not seek re-election, including nine Republicans. That's significant, because about 90 percent of incumbents win re-election, said Kyle Kondik, a politics expert at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.