UVA's Sidney M. Milkis and Nicholas Jacobs argue that Trump’s deployment of what they call “executive-centered partisanship” is both in keeping with the modern presidency and a potentially damaging shift in our politics.
The GOP's history of failing to make good on its campaign promise of fiscal discipline is a long and troubled one, well beyond the two most recent Republican administrations, said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA's Miller Center. Former presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, she said, were likely the last Republicans to make good on conservative spending promises.
For years, U.S. schools have been moving in the opposite direction. A 2016 UVA study titled “Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?” answered in the affirmative. Based on teacher surveys from 1998 and 2010, it found kindergartners were spending less time in self-directed activities and more time reading and writing to keep up with teachers’ higher expectations.
A new study published in the Columbia Journalism Review offers a comprehensive look at small-market newspapers in the digital age, along with a side project survey of more than 400 small-market journalists. Small-market newspapers, which have a circulation below 50,000, represent a large part of the nation’s news mix, but are often overlooked in both research and in the popular narrative about newspapers. The authors, Christopher Ali of UVA and Damian Radcliffe, sought to correct this oversight by researching how small-market newspapers are responding to the encroaching Digital Age, and how th...
Every few days, Jim Ambuske checks to see if any more pages from the University of Virginia Law Library have been transcribed. The library subscribes to From the Page, a service that allows amateurs to have a hand in cutting-edge research without leaving their desks. Any volunteer can create an account, pick a scanned photo of a manuscript page, and transcribe the words.
A team of researchers from UVA and colleagues elsewhere collected 63 samples of blowfly species Chrysomya megacephala and 53 samples of the housefly species Musca domestica from three different continents in urban, rural and natural settings. They then used a procedure called whole-genome shotgun sequencing to determine the types of pathogens that the flies were carrying. The results were a bit icky.
(Essay by Mark Edmundson, an English professor) Is there anything to be said for the University of Virginia? Is there any defense to be made? I think there is and will try to offer a brief one.
Bronco Mendenhall has no interest in pursuing the open Oregon State football coaching job – not while there’s still work to be done at Virginia. “I’m not interested,” Mendenhall said. “That job came open a number of years ago. I’ve moved on since then. And this is exactly where I want to be, and, man, it’s just getting fun. We’re just starting to do some cool stuff.”
It didn’t take long for Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall to learn just how much the Cavaliers’ rivalry with Virginia Tech means to UVA’s boosters and fan base. Fans told him, “‘We don’t care if you win any other game other than that game,’” Mendenhall recalled Monday. “Which has to be an exaggeration. But maybe it’s not?”
Sociologists such as W. Bradford Wilcox at the University of Virginia for decades have noted the tremendous damage divorce – another project of the sexual revolution – has done to America’s social fabric. Children exposed to divorce are more likely than their peers in intact marriages to suffer from serious social or psychological pathologies.
The story of JFK, Oswald and Fort Worth is about more than gravestones or addresses. It’s about Fort Worth people – the hundreds here who went to one school or another with Lee in the Class of 1958, or who knew Marguerite, Marina or June. It’s also about people who may have known about Oswald’s anger, or inadvertently enabled his plan. “If you think there was a conspiracy – and that’s ‘if’ – then it had to include Fort Worth, because Kennedy was in Fort Worth as well as Dallas that day,” UVA professor and Kennedy historian Larry Sabato said Saturday after a Sixth Floor program.
"It’s too pat and unidimensional," says UVA political scientist Larry Sabato. "A presidential win or loss is the confluence of dozens of factors, but mainly the fundamentals.”
The University of Virginia has developed an interactive map that will let you select the time of day that you want to leave and see what the road conditions usually look like at that time.
Long term, most of Central Virginia will see an uptick in total population between now and 2025, according to projections by the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Several employers will have representatives on site to talk to attendees, including Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Kelly Services, the National Ground Intelligence Center, the University of Virginia Health System, Visiting Angels, Allied Universal, and others.
Monday Properties announced today that the UVA’s Darden School of Business will open a state-of-the-art learning facility on the 30th and 31st floors of 1100 Wilson Boulevard in Arlington. The long-term lease includes 40,000 square feet of administrative, conferencing and classroom space on the top two floors of Monday’s iconic property.
(Commentary by Bob Gibson, senior researcher at UVA’s Cooper Center for Public Service) An old joke about Pennsylvania is that it consists of Philadelphia on one end and Pittsburgh on the other – with Alabama in-between. A new joke about Virginia could be that the Old Dominion is becoming a huge and aging rural retirement home crowned by a growing Emerald City of Oz in its north.
After the Charlottesville Planning Commission last week voted to recommend closing Brandon Avenue and a portion of Monroe Lane to make way for a UVA redevelopment project, the City Council moved forward Monday with plans to vacate sewer easements so construction on new student apartments can begin soon.
Jack Ruby, the man who eventually shot Lee Harvey Oswald, told an FBI informant to "watch the fireworks" on the day President John F. Kennedy was killed, according to new records the National Archives released Friday. New records – first highlighted by UVA political analyst Larry Sabato – describe what an FBI informant later told officials about Ruby.
Democratic consultant Lis Smith said Trump only hurt himself by slamming Franken. "His desire to lash out against his perceived enemies outstrips his capacity for being strategic,” Smith said. "He may have thought he was counterpunching, when he really was just punching himself in the face.” Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at UVA, described the Trump tapes as another example of the president's tendency to project his own behavior onto others.