The University of Virginia will require most faculty and staff to report possible sexual misconduct they learn about from students, even if the students request confidentiality, under a policy announced this week. Exceptions will be made for health-care and counseling personnel who are considered “confidential employees,” U-Va. president Teresa A. Sullivan wrote in an e-mail to the campus community.
The University of Virginia estimates the 5 percent cut this year will cost $6.5 million and next year’s 7 percent reduction will total $9.14 million. UVa is evaluating its options but has “no specifics to share” at this point, spokesman McGregor McCance said.
The architect that oversaw planning for the $50 million restoration of the University of Virginia's iconic Rotunda is stepping down. The Charlottesville school said Friday that David Neuman plans to resign from his post in October after an 11-year tenure.
(Commentary) So is a college degree worth it, the news magazine asked? A chart of 44 U.S. universities and colleges compared the return on the cost of a degree after financial aid to the return on a 20-year Treasury bill, 3.4 percent. The better return on 28 institutions ranged from 17.6 to 9.9 percent, while the remaining 16 institutions showed 1.0 percent or negative return on the cost of a degree. The top two universities in the survey were the University of Virginia and Georgia Tech; most of the Ivy League colleges, UC Berkeley and UCLA had favorable returns on the investment. That verifie...
Three Virginia law schools made a new ranking of how well law schools prepare their students to do the heavy lifting in the biggest law firms. University of Virginia School of Law ranked ninth, making the strongest showing with a whopping 133 respondents, the highest number of respondents for any of the top 10 schools.
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that teen jobs were once associated with much larger wage bumps later in life than in recent years. ... The benefits to working appeared way smaller for the younger group (today's young Millennials) than they were in the 1970s and early '80s, when that first cohort went through their teen jobs. Teens working 20 or more hours per week back then went on to have wages that were 8.3 percent higher than their peers. For people in the younger cohort, teen jobs only had a 4.4 percent effect. In addition, researchers ...
... now a new study confirms it: The benefits of high school employment for kids today are pretty much a wash--especially for men.
Mark Edmundson, a teacher at the University of Virginia and a cultural critic, takes a more personal approach in "Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game." Like Almond, who went to some length to declare himself a football fan (the Raiders), Edmundson came to the game in an attempt to bond with his father. Unlike Almond, Edmundson went out for his high-school team and transformed himself from "a buttery, oversensitive boy, credulous and shy" to someone "with a strong will and clear desires," "alert and ready to move.""When a boy is...
... Edmundson is at his best when he contrasts Homer's battling heroes, Achilles and Hector, in his chapter on courage. He made me think anew about both football and "The Iliad."
I sometimes wonder why couples bother with these huge wedding receptions at all, given that they have often been living together for years and have their teenage daughters as bridesmaids. But from America has come an exciting justification for it all. Research by the University of Virginia has found that the bigger the wedding, the more enduring the marriage.
The Drinkable Book is an incredibly creative solution to both of these problems. It is a result of the collaboration between scientists from Carnegie Mellon and University of Virginia, the nonprofit WATERisLIFE, and the advertising agency DDB North America.The book is a beautiful manual that provides information on water contaminants and teaches safe water habits.
Multitasking is so pervasive that a recent study from the University of Virginia found that most people would rather experience mild electric shock than be left alone, without tasks, for fifteen minutes.
Mr. Malloy beat Mr. Foley in 2010 by about 6,400 votes in one of the closest races in Connecticut history, and this year's rematch is expected to be among the most competitive gubernatorial races in the country. The University of Virginia's Center for Politics and the Cook Political Report rate the race a tossup.
Roosevelt spent two years ranching in Dakota Territory after his wife and mother died on the same day in 1884. In 1886, he remarried and moved back to New York, where he resumed politics and writing, with time as U.S. Civil Service commissioner and president of the New York City Police Board before being appointed by President McKinley as assistant secretary of the Navy, the University of Virginia’s Miller Center said.
By Brandon L. Garrett, a professor of law at the University of Virginia and the author of the forthcoming book “Too Big To Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations.”Corporate crime is treated so leniently, even in cases of the biggest banks, that resolutions can look like giant speeding tickets — with no jail time for individual bankers and no lasting effects. The feds are too pinched to tackle many complex cases. A three-year federal hiring freeze that was just lifted earlier this year has hampered elite financial prosecution units.
What are the problems with mandatory reporting?Thomas L Hafemeister, a University of Virginia School of Law academic told Washington Lawyer: "The concern is that if everyone is a mandatory reporter, and if we get the public so enflamed, they may start seeing child abuse everywhere."
...The event will also recognize that it’s been 50 years since Springsteen first picked up a guitar. “Makin’ This Guitar Talk” will include a series of moderated panel discussions on various Springsteen-related topics. Confirmed panelists include Jim Beviglia, author of “Counting Down Bruce Springsteen: His 100 Finest Songs;” Jonathan D. Cohen of the University of Virginia and managing editor of BOSS: The Bi-Annual Online Journal of Springsteen Studies;...
Heading into the Labor Day weekend, the University of Virginia Center for Politics predicts that Republicans are poised to snag somewhere between four and eight Senate seats in the November election.