Brian Balogh, a UVA professor, said that while the pneumonia appeared to be a “relatively minor health issue,” it would cast a long shadow given that Clinton had dismissed questions about her health as right-wing conspiracies.
In the changing context of higher education in the United States, leaders spend most of their time raising funds and dealing with an array of regulations and legal issues. It is like working for a corporation, just one that is not for profit. Dean Scott C. Beardsley of UVA’s Darden School of Business, who spent 26 years at consultancy firm McKinsey & Company, was recently in India and spoke about his upcoming book that discusses the rise of the non-traditional leader in educational institutions and making way for 'future-ready' leaders.
The history of the presidency includes a running thread of illness and incapacity, much of it hidden from the public out of political calculation. Such situations point to another subtle change in American politics, said Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor in presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center: vice presidents are more carefully vetted, and are more intimately involved with the operations of the government, than they were a century ago.
(By David A. Martin, professor emeritus of law) Donald Trump has made empowering local police to enforce federal immigration law a key part of his campaign. He apparently hasn’t been paying attention to what local jurisdictions have been doing over the past 10 years.
Thanks to the Food Hub and a student group, Greens to Grounds, UVA is offering a 100 percent local foods option to diners this fall.
President Teresa Sullivan outlined UVA’s ambitions at a state of the university address Monday afternoon.
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan delivered her State of the University address on Monday. In her address, Sullivan focused on what achievements the school has made in the past year, including hiring more diverse faculty members and making significant advancements in research.
The University of Virginia is the second-best public university in the nation, according to the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report. UVA tied for No. 2 with the University of California-Los Angeles, reclaiming the spot it lost last year, when it fell behind UCLA for the No. 3 ranking.
(Co-written by Meg Heubeck, director of instruction for the Youth Leadership Initiative at UVA’s Center for Politics) Millennials may be turned off by the current political system – but now there’s a new platform to engage them. America’s Mock Election was created in the summer of 2015 in reaction to this pattern of nonparticipation in state, federal and local elections.
(By Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics) When the Founding Fathers created our electoral system, they might have been surprised to discover, more than two centuries later, that these two things could be true at the same time: One, that the country had embraced mass democracy, including giving the franchise to men and women of all races, incomes and classes; and two, that despite doing that, the country was still using the Electoral College system that they had implemented at the dawn of the country – a system not designed with the intention of promoting mass democracy.
UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan looked forward to the school’s bicentennial celebration during her annual address to the Faculty Senate on Monday.
On the surface, the low approval ratings for Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump present a prime opportunity for a candidate like Mr. Johnson, who is socially liberal and fiscally conservative. Even so, that intriguing blend of policies has made it difficult for the Libertarian ticket to attract stray Democrats or disenchanted Republicans in large numbers. “The Libertarians just break too much from traditional GOP orthodoxy on foreign policy and social issues to get a big amount of Republican support,” said Kyle D. Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics.
For Trump, it’s a far different story. The loss of North Carolina, which the 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney stole back from Barack Obama, could prove fatal to his chances. “He needs to hold on to every state Romney won, which includes North Carolina, and win 64 more electoral votes to win a majority of 270,” says Geoffrey Skelley, an associate editor at Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an election analysis website moderated by the University of Virginia.
Third-party candidates are usually an afterthought in presidential elections, but Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein could impact the outcome of this year’s race, analysts say. “Johnson tends to hurt Clinton slightly more than Trump,” Geoffrey Skelley, of UVA’s Center for Politics, said. “This is surprising because Libertarian voters tend to be predominantly male and white, two demographics that are more Republican-leaning as a whole.”
Want to start your own business and be your own boss but don’t know what it’ll take? Professor S Venkatraman, Professor of Business Administration at UVA’s Darden
Among political scientists, the most sophisticated, recent attempt to evaluate legislator effectiveness was created by Craig Volden, a UVA professor, and Alan Wiseman, a Vanderbilt University professor.
Larry Sabato, a veteran political scientist at UVA, said Clinton's team should release a full health record. "We really haven't gotten very much, essentially a letter from her doctor," he told CNN, but added that Trump should be held to the same requirement.
Michigan's 1st and 7th districts are the types of races that Democrats need to win to regain the House, but the districts have been drawn to favor Republicans, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Michigan is a good example of the problems the Democrats have in the House. Michigan leans Democratic in presidential years – (George H.W.) Bush was the last Republican to carry it. Yet Republicans control the House delegation,” Kondik said.