Two new reports show the U.S. Department of Education has been hit with a massive increase in complaints about schools' handling of sexual violence over the last few years. "This data underscores that more must be done to address the backlog of ongoing Title IX investigations into how college campuses handle sexual assault, including the UVA investigation that has been pending since June 2011," Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said in a statement Tuesday, highlighting thongoing inquiry at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia is among the 10 schools with the strongest record for getting its students these types of full-time, long-term jobs, according to this week’s ABA employment report, which reflects outcomes for over 200 schools and includes positions the programs themselves funded.
(By Josh Wheeler, the Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression located in Charlottesville, Virginia. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he co-directs a First Amendment Practice Clinic.) On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its opinion in Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar, a case arising out of Florida decided by a five-to-four vote involving the confidence of the American public in the country’s judicial system. In the words of the great legal jurist Yogi Berra, &ldquo...
Susan J. Demas: From Hillary Clinton to Ben Carson, the 2016 presidential field is already humongous
But the field of serious contenders has ballooned to more than two dozen -- 20 of which are on the GOP side, according to supreme pundit Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia (he's to national politics what Bill Ballenger is to Michigan politics).
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is trying to frame her campaign around issues like immigration reform, but her message has been muddled by a series of recent distractions, including questions about donations to the Clinton Foundation. "When you vote for the Clintons you get a lot of good things, but in the package also comes something kind of bad, which is ethical transgressions," University of Virginia Director for Politics Larry Sabato said.
The speakers on the panel reflect the Urban Blue theme really well. The closing keynote this year is a professor from the University of Virginia, Tim Beatley. He wrote a book called Blue Urbanism, from which we’ve derived the theme of the conference. He’s giving the closing keynote on designing cities to be more blue-minded while also reflecting on the discussions throughout the day — a big job!
A prosecutor's decision not to seek a death penalty for the man accused of abducting and killing a University of Virginia student is emblematic of capital punishment's decline across the country and in the state that once operated one of the busiest execution chambers in the nation. A recent study by University of Virginia law professor John G. Douglass concluded that the number of capital murder charges has declined, but not as rapidly as the number of death sentences.
The Book Doctors met Bruce Holsinger at the Tucson Book Festival (by the way, if you read or write, do yourself a favor and put the Tucson Book Festival on your Bucket List) and when he told us about his book, The Invention of Fire, we just had to pick his brain about writing historical fiction, non-fiction, teaching fiction, plagues, witches, wars and guns. Bruce Holsinger is an award-winning fiction writer, critic, and literary scholar who teaches at the University of Virginia.
Biologists have just announced that they have determined what they believe to be the key mechanisms of aging. And, more importantly, they claim that with this knowledge they can now determine how to slow down and potentially reverse the process. “This is a beautiful example of how genomics, human stem cells and the new gene-editing technologies conjoin to provide major insights into human disease,” comments Rick Horwitz, who is the executive director of the Allen Institute for Cell Science. He also holds a position as a professor at the University of Virginia and goes on to sa...
Researchers are tracking down a new stash of letters from Martha Washington. Edward Lengel of The Washington Papers project at the University of Virginia tells NPR's Rachel Martin what's in the trove.
In circus jargon the expression “all out and over” is used when the performance is finished and the audience is leaving the big top. That moment arrived Tuesday for LaVahn Hoh in a University of Virginia classroom as he concluded his popular course on the history of the American circus. On May 24, after 46 years of teaching at the university, Hoh officially will retire at 72.
A group of lawmakers, law enforcement officials, and alcohol experts appointed by the Governor met for the first time Monday to take a long, hard look at Virginia’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control after the controversial arrests of two students at the state’s flagship university. “Our interactions with ABC seem to be extreme,” panel member and University of Virginia Student Council President Abraham Axler said.
The training of ABC agents in dealing with college students or cultural diversity is only as effective as the expectations set at the top, said Harrisonburg Mayor Christopher Jones, who was appointed by Gov. Terry McAuliffe to a 20-member panel on ABC law enforcement after two encounters between agents and University of Virginia students.
The Sil'hooettes or Sils as they are affectionately known around UVa, are one of nine official a capella organizations on grounds and one of the three all-female groups, so what sets the sils apart? "We try to strike a balance between popular and unpopular, but always kind of an edgier, dark side to it, with lots of heavy bass, so lots of the lower voices we really like," said Anna Rigby, incoming president of the Sil'hooettes. Outgoing president Mackenzie Newman said it is also the fact that each young woman in the group gets to try their voice at everything, from soloist, t...
Students and faculty at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education are working to preserve stories from the civil rights movement. Over the last few months, Curry School professor Derrick P. Alridge and his team of researchers have conducted 25 interviews with educators from all over the nation for the Teachers in the Movement project. They are documenting the experiences of teachers who worked to promote change in their schools, classrooms and communities during the civil rights movement.
The 2016 election could come down to just seven swing states, or virtually the same Electoral College map from the last presidential election, says analyst Larry Sabato, but that doesn't mean the Democratic Party already has a clear advantage going into the race. "The past is often not a good guide to the future," said Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, in a column written for Politico along with Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley, the managing editor and associate editor for Sabato's Crystal Ball.
With the early-education field continuing to grow nationally, it's increasingly clear that the key to good programs is teacher quality. As a recent reminder of this, Robert Pianta, the dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, published an opinion piece in The Washington Post in February on the urgent need for accountability in teacher preparation. His essay underscores the fact that education degrees do not necessarily lead to teacher effectiveness—and that education professors are resistant to making sure that they do. As Pianta wrote, &quo...
As scientific research is applied to more areas of education, teachers remain conflicted about its usefulness, according to celebrated cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham of the University of Virginia. Battle lines, he said, are often drawn up between teachers who are unwilling to give up practices they have used for years and colleagues who point to evidence that these particular methods either do not work or can be replaced by something better. In a keynote address at the first researchED conference in New York, which aims to improve research literacy in schools, Professor W...
The court used to be a more decorous institution. A new computer analysis of about 25,000 Supreme Court opinions from 1791 to 2008 identified three trends that have transformed the court’s tone. The justices’ opinions, the study found, have become longer, easier to understand — and grumpier. The new study, to be published next year in the Washington University Law Review, is the work of Daniel Rockmore and Keith Carlson, computer scientists at Dartmouth College, and Michael A. Livermore, a law professor at the University of Virginia. It is part of a cottage industry...
Design-oriented firms such as Apple and IDEO have demonstrated the business impacts of design thinking, a powerful discipline that can be applied in B2B and B2C settings. Design thinking has been used effectively for improving internal processes and culture at for-profit and non-profit organisations, as described in the book ‘Solving problems with design thinking: ten stories of what works.’ Authors Jeanne Liedtka (U.Va.), Andrew King and Kevin Bennett describe useful tips and tools for design thinking via a range of 10 practical stories. The 216-page book makes for an absorbing re...