“By the time Roger Ailes comes along, there’s already a generation of conservatives who are used to seeking out alternative sources of media,” says Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor at UVA’s Miller Center. “The kind of media that these conservative activists developed are focused on ideas and ideology and didn’t necessarily have to grapple with the pragmatics of politics.”
The Clinton campaign has been careful not to criticize Sanders or his supporters so as not to inflame passions that are already running hot. “The more they press against the Sanders delegates, the more they’ll come dressed in Hillary outfits and then take it off and pull out the Bernie banners and all the rest of it,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Siva Vaidhyanathan is known as a scholarly expert on privacy. This summer, that knowledge is being showcased in a highly public setting. Vaidhyanathan, UVA’s Robertson Professor of Modern Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship, is being portrayed by an actor in an off-Broadway hit production of “Privacy” at the Public Theater in New York City.
What exactly does it mean to be a global leader? It’s part of the learning leader’s job to figure that out. But jotting down a list of key competencies they should possess oversimplifies the issue, said Scott Beardsley, dean of UVA’s Darden School of Business. A global leader’s functional role will drive the skills required for success. Darden’s James Clawson laid out 11 key characteristics for a global business leader.
"In terms of the management of insanity acquittees, generally, it is common to have this very carefully titrated doses of liberty approach, with gradual doses of freedom and a fairly tight monitoring system," explained UVA law professor Richard Bonnie, who specializes in mental health and criminal law. "That is the model."
The first substantive time Bill Clinton got up on a national stage, as the keynote speaker at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, he utterly bombed. "There was some concern at the time ... that he might have put himself out of contention for any political future," recalls Russell Riley, a professor at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and author of two forthcoming books on Clinton.
As TV dramas get better and better, book publishers are hoping to convert binge TV watchers into binge readers. "I don't think that people really consume books in the same way that they consume TV shows," says Jane Friedman, who teaches digital media and publishing at UVA.
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics) After Donald Trump picked Mike Pence to be his running mate two weeks ago, we suggested that Trump could end up taking at least a temporary lead because of the convention bounce that presidential candidates typically get after their conventions. It appears that Trump has in fact gotten a bounce, at least in some polls.
The Democratic platform states, “We oppose … the use of student test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, a practice which has been repeatedly rejected by researchers.” Several researchers who study teacher evaluation, including UVA’s Jim Wyckoff, say the suggestion that there is a scholarly consensus against using test scores in teacher evaluation is misleading.
In the wake of Kaine's selection, Sabato's Crystal Ball, a non-partisan newsletter produced by UVA’s Center for Politics, moved Virginia from "leans Democratic" to "likely Democratic." It cited a recent study finding that "vice presidential candidates increased a ticket’s performance in their home state by 2.67 points on average from 1884-2012. In a competitive state, that’s not nothing."
The research firm put several key swing states within Trump’s grasp based on recent statewide polls that show Donald Trump making significant gains in Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. UVA’s Center for Politics awarded all of those swing states to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton based on voter demographics.
UVA’s Center for Politics aggregated 22 national polls and found that the gender gap between Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is a record 24 points.
Newly released data from the U.S. Department of Education shows 65 percent of school districts in Virginia reported zero incidents of sexual harassment in 2014, but the data is at odds with a recent UVA study that showed approximately 30 percent of high school students claim they experienced some form of sexual harassment last school year.
For professional athletes and weekend warriors alike, it appeared to be welcome news: the discovery by researchers of a new knee ligament that, if repaired, might help tens of thousands of people with an injury from sports or an accident. “Even if you think this ligament exists, the big leap of faith is, Why are you trying to reconstruct it?” said Dr. Mark Miller, a UVA orthopedic expert.
In UVA's admissions blog, UVA Associate Dean of Admission Jeannine Lalonde wrote: "Be concise and thoughtful in your statement and try to convey your voice and style in your words. This is the one spot on your application where your personality gets to shine, so don't treat this like a formal school assignment."
UVA is a public institution, but its mission is aligned with wealthy private universities and remarkable public institutions like Michigan and Berkeley. Such places work at the frontiers of knowledge, and such an atmosphere stimulates student engagement from doctoral research down to undergraduate seminars. Beyond students, high-level research serves the public good. First-rate universities are limited in number. We can afford only so many, but we need the ones we have.
"There are still some Sanders voters who need to be brought on board, and I think the goal of the convention is for it to be this kumbaya moment for the Democrats and to show they are a party that's unified versus the Republicans as a party that's not," said Kyle Kondik, an expert at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Virginia Democrats are reacting with great enthusiasm on the Internet. "For Virginia, it takes Virginia off the swing state map. I can't imagine even Republicans other than the Trump backers would suggest that Virginia would still be competitive this year," said Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics.
A former Virginia governor with foreign policy experience, Kaine has deep ties to President Barack Obama, who hand-picked him to run for the Senate, and is highly popular in his home state. "You can see he's from Virginia, which has been a key swing state in the last two presidential elections, and the outcome in Virginia most closely matched the national outcome," says Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Virginia is critical for both Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. Without Virginia, most political analysts say it would be impossible for Trump to win enough Electoral College votes to win the White House. UVA political scientist Larry Sabato said he was changing his rating for Virginia from leaning Democratic to likely to vote Democratic in November.