Under rules proposed on Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education, colleges would have to train students and employees on preventing sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking. The new rules would direct colleges to compile statistics for all incidents—a new requirement for the latter three categories—and to resolve students’ disciplinary cases promptly and fairly. Set to be published in Friday’s Federal Register, the rules will be open for public comment until July 21.
Virginia’s colleges and universities spend about $1.3 billion on research and development annually, a total that has increased more than 68 percent over nearly a decade. But the state has made only marginal gains in its national standing, rising just one spot, to 15th place among all states, in the high-stakes race to innovate and train the workforce of the future — a trend the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia finds ominous. Further, only two schools — Virginia Tech at 43rd and the University of Virginia at 60th — raised their national rankings to a compet...
The University of Virginia Center for Politics is holding their 16th Annual Virginia Political History Project tomorrow. This year’s event will feature a discussion with Senator Mark Warner (D) and former Senator John Warner (R). UVa. Professor Larry Sabato will moderate the discussion. There will also be a screening of the Emmy award winning documentary Out of Order, which explores partisanship and the growing lack of civility in the U.S Congress.
Four professors with the University of Virginia have been awarded thousands of dollars in grants for their research projects. In all, they will receive $555,000 from Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology. The center provides awards from a fund to advance science and technology-based research, development and commercialization.
Anne Coughlin, a professor at the University of Virginia and an expert on feminist jurisprudence, has written that extra-legal sexual codes infantilize students. That offends those who believe there is a rape culture on American campuses.But every parent should certainly consider this: If the complications of human sexuality and its often ambiguous mating dance defy consistent definition by the intellectual candlepower of entire university faculties, what advice should you give children who might still be in their teens as they head off to college?
Fines on average are seven times as large for foreign companies as for domestic ones, according to a University of Virginia law professor, Brandon L. Garrett. He found that foreign companies were penalized $35 million on average, compared with an average of $4.7 million for American companies.
Wednesday’s ruling by the United States Patent and Trademark Office leaves the Washington Redskins with little defense against trademark infringement, according to two professors at the University of Virginia School of Law. The team can continue to use the Redskins name, said Dotan Oliar, a UVa professor specializing in intellectual property, but the lack of trademark protection could cut into its merchandising revenue. Edmund W. Kitch, who also teaches intellectual property law at UVa, said the team might be able to keep its name and keep up merchandising revenues. The team might, for e...
Political analyst Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, believes activists have an outsized influence in the way their parties operate. They brook no deviation from hard-core tenets. For Republican hardliners, Obamacare is just "another government boondoggle," or a new form of vote-buying, Sabato told me. They don't care about Virginians who desperately need coverage.
An interim superintendent has been appointed to fill the vacancy that will be created by Dr. Bob Grimesey’s resignation at the end of the month as superintendent of Orange County Public Schools. Filling the position in the interim will be Dr. Brenda Tanner. In addition to serving at the pre-kindergarten through 12th grade level, Tanner also has worked at the college level, teaching leadership and school administration at the University of Virginia while also directing the Curry School’s school and university professional consortium.
"China and Vietnam have been working on their relationship for 4,000 years, and some days the work goes better than others," said Brantly Womack, a professor of foreign affairs at the University of Virginia who has written extensively on the countries.
A study to be published in the July issue of the journal Child Development reports that a constellation of pseudo-mature behaviors in early adolescence — minor forms of delinquency, early romantic behavior and a focus on physical appearance in seeking out friends — predicts “significant difficulties in social functioning” up to 10 years later. Individuals who act “old” for their age as young teenagers tend to have trouble forming friendships and romantic attachments as young adults. Why would this be? Joseph Allen, a professor of psychology at the University...
Church support for marriage among poor and middle class Americans can play a key role in combating income inequality and providing a good environment for children, a sociologist told the U.S. bishops. “If you care about bridging the marriage divide, you should care about economic justice, cultural change, and the renewal of civil society,” Professor W. Bradford Wilcox, a University of Virginia sociology professor, told the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ general assembly in New Orleans on June 12.
Using data gathered on a nationally representative sample of adolescents ages 7-12, Brad Wilcox of the University of Virginia divided teens into four groups based on their fathers' level of involvement in their lives: not involved, less involved, involved, and very involved. He found that, regardless of socioeconomic status and compared to teens of not involved dads, teens with involved dads were 98 percent more likely to graduate from college while teens with very involved fathers were 105 percent more likely to graduate from college. Clearly, more involved fathers contribute to more coll...
Ever wonder what happens to the leftover tissue from your cancer biopsy? We didn't either, but apparently the very thing you're trying to get rid of is in high demand by researchers. Eastern Virginia Medical School is working with the University of Virginia to collect leftover tissue for cancer research. The University of Virginia announced Wednesday it was awarded a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand a program that provides such specimens to researchers.
This fire-the-worst policy could have benefits beyond those calculated by Chetty and his co-authors. Economists Thomas Dee of Stanford and James Wyckoff of the University of Virginia recently analyzed Washington, D.C.’s IMPACT program, which financially rewards the best teachers and threatens the worst with dismissal. Dee and Wyckoff compared teachers who were near the thresholds for bonuses or dismissal threats with teachers who actually crossed the thresholds. They found that the highest-graded teachers performed even better as a result of IMPACT’s bonuses. The lowest-graded...
A study of Virginia’s religious exemption by the Child Advocacy Committee at the University of Virginia’s law school in 2012 found that few states carve out a specific exemption for religion, instead applying the same requirements on all families seeking to educate their children at home. Of the four states that do grant a religious exemption, Virginia stands alone in not monitoring the progress of these students.
UVA demographic researchers made some fascinating graphs of demographic divides in the Washington area which show what we know is happening: more affluent and educated people are moving farther east in the region, and young people are living near the center more than ever.
Staunton native Michael Bugas received a prestigious award for his service to others when he graduated from the University of Virginia this year. Bugas was chosen along with a peer and a faculty member to receive the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award. According to award committee chairman William Wilson, the winners “represent our highest ideals and our very greatest hopes.”
The University of Virginia alum spoke frankly with soon-to-be graduates of Carthage College, offering encouragement and guidance, but in a very real, down-to-earth way. He exhorted seniors to take risks, fall every once in a while only to learn from your failure and embrace change no matter the circumstance. Ohanian would know, too, as the first company he launched on UVa's Charlottesville campus, My Mobile Menu – Mmm for short – went nowhere after a year and a half of hard work.