Washington and Lee University says it is removing Confederate battle flags from its campus. The move was announced in a lengthy email from university president Kenneth Rusio to faculty and students on Tuesday.This spring, a group of law students demanded the school banish the flag from campus and repudiate one of its namesakes, Gen. Robert E. Lee. The group at the private liberal arts college found the flag troublesome in part because they had to pledge to an honor code in its prescence at the Lee Chapel.The Roanoke Times reports (http://bit.ly/1kAR38d) that while the flags will be removed...
The small but vocal faculty association at the University of Virginia is focusing on representation on the school’s Board of Visitors and pay for non-tenure track professors this academic year. The Association of American University Professors, which has a membership of about 53 professors at UVa, elected Peter Norton, an assistant professor of engineering as president earlier this month. The association was formed, in part, as a response to the Sullivan crisis.
It’s an unusual case, and one that brings up serious questions for the University’s medical center, which, like other public hospitals, is facing a future of major shortfalls as it struggles to fund its mandate to care for all patients, regardless of their ability to pay: Should care providers consider financial impact an essential part of the health care equation? And should a public hospital sue its way to a secure bottom line?
Top students from selected schools will work in teams to develop research concepts. They will be given access to NASA suborbital platforms to fly their science payloads. In total, ten schools were selected based on proposals applicants submitted. All of them will have the opportunity to launch scientific instruments on a variety of vehicles provided by NASA. ... University of Virginia students will launch a small satellite, known as the CubeSat Cosmic Ray Dosimeter, to measure cosmic rays.
An advanced manufacturing research center in Prince George County is getting a new partner. Officials say Spatial Integrated Systems Inc. has joined the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing as an industry member. The Virginia Beach-based company will provide digital 3D equipment and software used by commercial and military equipment manufacturers. The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing does research for a group of manufacturing companies under a partnership with Virginia Tech, Virginia State University and the University of Virginia.
Meanwhile, faculty members at Austin have been in touch with their counterparts at the University of Virginia, where furious protests from professors, students, and alumni helped get Teresa A. Sullivan reinstated as president in June 2012, two weeks after she was pressured to resign. "I’m interested in knowing what strategies the UVa faculty used to form a united front that was so effective in her reappointment," said Andrea C. Gore, chair-elect of the UT flagship’s Faculty Council.
Of the world’s leading 50 business schools, few immediately jumped on the online MBA bandwagon. Some of the early movers are seen as second-tier schools. Harvard, MIT Sloan, the University of Virginia’s Darden School and other big-brand US schools have only relatively recently begun experimenting with MOOCs. Wharton was one of the first. There are as much as 10% of its two-year MBA core courses online for free access. One enrolled more than 130,000 students.
“In the wake of the BNP criminal plea, a ‘restitution and remediation agreement’ seems to be a new synonym for a non-prosecution agreement,” said University of Virginia Law Professor Brandon Garrett. “But a non prosecution by another name is still a non prosecution.”
They might hang onto that technological lead for a while, according to University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. But probably not forever. "Mobilization begets countermobilization," Sabato said in an interview. "It's a fundamental principle of politics. The leadership in campaign technology often moves back and forth between the parties, often depending on which party is more desperate."
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said Land’s efforts to separate herself from her husband’s millions — which helped finance her past political campaigns — could be a strategic move to insulate herself from a populist blowback toward the wealthy. “When people see a candidate being worth millions and millions of dollars, they can’t identify with that,” Sabato said.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said the surveys could be an inconvenience at best for Democrats in red states. “Once you get gun control on the agenda, it opens the door for the NRA to push back harder,” Sabato said. “It matters whether an issue is visible in a state and, therefore, part of the calculus for voters.”
Rajkumar Venkatesan is a professor of business administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. In his view, EEI's effort is part of the growing conventional wisdom about establishing good will to be prepared before a catastrophic event.
Does the idea of sitting alone in a room for 15 minutes doing absolutely nothing sound like pure bliss or unimaginable torture? Many participants in a new study out of the University of Virginia agreed on the latter, as researchers concluded that today's society has become increasingly averse to the notion of stillness.
I must be honest with you, readers: I was skeptical. About approximately everything in this study and also the value of said study. What did we learn here, really? So I called up David Reinhard, a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia and one of the study’s authors. What was the point of this study, exactly?
This time, we’ll look at a tool that will help you get a realistic view of what it takes to grow your business. I can’t take the credit for the GRAT, that belongs to Edward D. Hess of the University of Virginia. But I can at least show you a little of how it works. The following list of questions are all part of the tool, and are too complex to be able to answer quickly, but when done, the GRAT should help you decide what your growth will be, what you need to worry about, when to grow, and how far to push the gas before letting up and coasting.