Violins, ukuleles, guitars, and banjos all have strings, but in one UVa professor's engineering class the instruments come with a Surgeon General's warning. A down-home jam session isn't exactly what you'd expect to hear in an Introduction to Engineering class at the University of Virginia, but it's all part of Professor Keith Williams' message to his First Years.
"The story used to be that satisfaction with life went downhill, but the remarkable thing that researchers are finding is that doesn’t seem to be the case," says Timothy Salthouse, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia.
Prior to her attempted ouster as president of the University of Virginia, Teresa Sullivan referred to a reputation gap at the school. “In a number of critical areas, we are reputed to be better than we actually are,” she explained. She may have said more than she realized.
Despite its roots in post-Revolution America, the University of Virginia has never been known as a hotbed of campus activism. But that may be changing, thanks to cuts to student grant aid and a recent magazine article on sexual assault on Grounds.
Shocked, tearful and at times defensive, members of the board that oversees the University of Virginia insisted that they would combat the problem of sexual assault on campus after a magazine article reported a gang rape at a campus fraternity and allegations that the university was more concerned about its reputation than a history of sexual assault embedded in its hard-drinking social life.
Today the University of Virginia held a special meeting to discuss the issue of campus rape and sexual assault. This is in reaction to a Rolling Stone article that documented a pattern of a rape on campus.
Six days after gang rape allegations cast the University of Virginia into turmoil, the school’s Board of Visitors unanimously approved a zero-tolerance stance on sexual assault Tuesday.
Many University of Virginia students — including several self-described sexual assault survivors — are expressing their support for an embattled campus administrator following a sexual assault scandal that has rocked the school.
“Up until very, very recently, there was no crime. [People assume that] if the woman is drunk ... she's consenting, she wasn't raped. That's not victim blaming — that's saying you weren't even a victim,” said Anne Coughlin, law professor at the University of Virginia.
Ken Elzinga, economics professor at the University of Virginia, a.k.a. Marshall Jevons, has his book, “The Mystery of the Invisible Hand,” reviewed in the Wall Street Journal.
Mark Edmundson opens “Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game,’’ with a sentence I could have written: “I grew up watching football with my father.” I too began watching games on television with my dad at age 6, and I too rooted for the New York Giants and remain an avid fan. Edmundson, a University of Virginia English professor and author of numerous books, including the recent “Why Teach?’' (an impassioned and beautifully reasoned defense of liberal-arts education), vividly conveys the sacredness of the Sunday afternoon “football-wat...
Alabama native Kathryn C. Thornton helped set an aerospace precedent for women when she launched with the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery on Nov. 22, 1989. In doing so, she became the first female crew member aboard Discovery.
On 7 November 1989, Lawrence Douglas Wilder was elected the 66th governor of Virginia. He differed from the previous sixty-five Virginian governors and every other governor ever elected in any US state: he was black. While Wilder could not have won without the resolute support of African Americans, two-thirds of his total votes were cast by whites. Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia explains, ‘a vote for Wilder became a badge of honour – objective proof that they were not racist’.
At the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, spokeswoman Audrey Breen reported that, among Master of Teaching students, 5 percent of the students pursuing degrees to teach are African-American. She noted that 3 percent are Hispanic, 10 percent are Asian and 81 percent are Caucasian.
“Learning styles do not exist,” says Willingham, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, US, and the author of Why Don’t Students Like School?. “Not for children with typical development and not for children who have learning difficulties.”
A student's story of being gang-raped at a 2012 fraternity party at the University of Virginia, recounted in detail in an article in Rolling Stone last week, has shaken the university and prompted renewed debate over campus culture, the fraternity system and U.Va.'s response to allegations of sexual assault.
The prosecution of an alleged two-year-old rape case at a fraternity house will be challenging. In an articlepublished by Rolling Stone magazine, the victim, a current UVA student, says she was gang raped at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in 2012.
University of Virginia Dean of Students Allen Groves said he knew something had to change within fraternity culture at the university, but he wasn’t aware of allegations as serious as the ones published in a Rolling Stone article Wednesday, where a young woman described being gang raped as a first-year student.