By the end of the summer, President Barack Obama will make what some activists and legal experts say could be the “boldest move” of his presidency as he prepares to move without Congress on immigration reform. “Depending on how far they go, yes,” David Martin, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who specialises in immigration law, told Business Insider. “It could be a significant challenge to the scope of presidential power.”
“Senate incumbents remain undefeated this cycle, which offers a strong argument against the idea that we’re in an era of widespread voter revolt against federal officeholders,” said Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Roberts ran a far from perfect race but clearly benefited from a weak opponent who did not excite outside conservative groups.”
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said Kasich has been favored to win re-election and is now an even more substantial favorite. ... “The tilt is Republican this year, and Kasich is a fairly popular incumbent,” he said. “Substituting candidates just a few months before the election is always risky. It can look desperate. Democrats may just have to grin and bear it, and hope that somehow FitzGerald rights his ship.”
Charlottesville’s David Sloan is a 1973 graduate of Lane High School and a 1977 graduate of the University of Virginia. David discusses his memories of Lane, playing football at UVA, and his thoughts on the athletic programs at UVA today.
Forty years ago, in the summer of 1974, the nation was gripped by the growing crisis of the Watergate scandal, which was reaching its zenith. And a freshman Republican congressman from Virginia found himself at the center of the storm.Caldwell Butler, who represented the Sixth District in the House of Representatives, sat on the Judiciary Committee, which was debating whether to send Articles of Impeachment against President Richard Nixon to the full House.On July 25, 1975, Butler made a dramatic announcement during a committee meeting: He would vote for the articles of impeachment when they c...
According to data from the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service's Demographics Research Group, 32% of all U.S. employees (or about 21 million workers) earn less than $10.10 per hour. Over the course of one 35-hour work week, that amounts to slightly over $353 per week for these hourly workers, and that doesn't even cover taxes and health care costs.Read More: Wealth Inequality Roughly Doubled From Great RecessionMore from the study: ...
Researchers from the University of Virginia recently discovered that our ability to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes comes from the fact that we consider people close to us a part of ourself. Psychology professor James Coan and his colleagues monitored fMRI brain scans of 22 young adults who were under threat of a mild electric shock or were forced to watch the same threat directed at a friend or stranger. The same area of the brain that responded to the threat of shock to the self, responded identically to the threat of shock to a friend. “It’s essentially a breakdown o...
“This is the first time that all Virginia public high schools have completed a survey like this, to look at school climate and safety conditions,” says Curry School of Education Professor Dr. Dewey Cornell. “We're going to do this every two years, so that schools can benchmark where they are now, develop plans to improve school conditions and school climate and evaluate their outcomes two years down the road.”
It’s also about how firmly Americans are attached to their belongings, according to a 2009 study of storage by Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University and the University of Virginia. “We do not know if people store their lava lamps because parting with them is such sweet sorrow,” the researchers wrote in an article in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. “But we do know that they store them because they like them and that they like them because they’re theirs.”
If you think back to middle school, chances are you remember some of the cool kids - those who looked older, dated sooner, drank, and got into trouble. They were the popular students, but a new study from the University of Virginia provides an important lesson for everyone else - the popular kids rarely stay that way.
"The fast-track kids didn't turn out OK," writes Joseph P. Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. He is the lead author of a new study, published this month in the Child Development journal, that followed these risk-taking, socially precocious cool kids for a decade. During their high school years, their social status evaporated, the study reveals, and they began struggling.
Dr. Jim Tucker at the University of Virginia had learned through years of studying reincarnation accounts to accept that reincarnation exists—but the strong indications that birthmarks correspond to past-life wounds still puzzled him. “I didn’t see how a wound on one body could show up as a birthmark on another, even if you accepted the idea of past-life connections,” he wrote in his book “Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives.” His mentor and predecessor in reincarnation studies, Dr. Ian Stevenson, had verified many cases.
The University of Virginia's governing board has drafted a "statement of expectations," a document designed to help the Board of Visitors "function as a cohesive corporate entity" in speech and conduct. The school, one of the finest in the nation, has a rich and historic tradition as a place of open inquiry, robust discussion and public service. It is not, and never has been, a "cohesive corporate entity." Few students, faculty, alumni or Virginians would want that for the university founded by Thomas Jefferson, one of America's greatest champions of ...
It appears that some people at the University of Virginia are in dire need of an education.Today, we’ll take out our own metaphorical board of education – what used to be called the whipping stick — and try to beat some common sense into the visitors. Here goes:... The draft “statement of expectations” is rooted in this faulty concept: “The Board of Visitors strives to function as a cohesive corporate entity ... . No Visitor is or should be a free agent.” Yet that is exactly what each visitor should be, within the usual bounds of propriety (meaning, OK...
Following outcry that it stifles public debate, the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia is scrapping their first draft of a code of ethics policy that would have forbidden members from publicly disagreeing with board decisions. ... Several state legislators spoke out against the clause, with one calling it “undemocratic” in The Washington Post. On Friday, the committee announced it would revise the draft to address First Amendment concerns raised by legislators and others. UVA spokesman McGregor McCance emphasized that the version presented last week was only a first dr...
University of Virginia graduate students are using social media to help people understand the national debt. One class in the Darden School of Business has created a 10-minute YouTube video breaking down the issue. Students of the Institute for Business in Society, a branch of UVA's Darden School, put it all into laymen's terms for anyone to understand.
This week on All about Going Abroad, we will take you to the Public Ivies in the United States and experience the real essence of top public universities. Experts in the studio will show you non-traditional ways to attend Public Ivies. The episode features Maurie McInnis, Jeff Legro, and Greg Roberts.
Fifty higher-education leaders from Virginia are voicing skepticism about an Obama administration plan to rate colleges on measures of access and value and link those ratings to federal aid. Presidents of schools ranging from the public University of Virginia to the private Liberty University put their names on an unusual joint letter sent July 22 to the state’s congressional delegation as well as to Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D). The letter embraced goals President Obama stressed when he announced the plan in August 2013 to make college more affor...
During a break in a lecture Monday on Russian history, University of Virginia professor Rachel Stauffer lamented the current state of Russo-American affairs. “I think there’s a lot of misunderstanding about Russia right now,” Stauffer said. “There’s more than just Putin. And Putin is not the voice of the people.” ... As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, it’s important for students to have an understanding of non-Western cultures, said Roger D. Collins, director of the Asia Institute.
Many campus assaults are committed by serial rapists who prey on naive underclasswomen by using alcohol or drugs, as well as physical force. One study found 84% of "sexually coercive" experiences occurred during the first two years of college.Further, prosecutors are less likely to pursue ambiguous cases, particularly ones that involve no witnesses and victims who were too drunk to know what happened.University of Virginia law professor Anne Coughlin, who studies the intersection of criminal law and feminist theory, has wrestled with this issue for years. Female students have told he...