The CNN/ORC data is far from the only evidence we have that the long-running belief that each generation will be better off than the last is fading. In 2013, the Post did a major survey alongside the Miller Center at the University of Virginia that sought to dig into the topic. Fifty four percent of those tested by WaPo in 2013 said that they were "better off" than their parents while just 39 percent said they thought their children would have a better quality of life than they have.
Total corporate criminal penalties in the United States overall increased about 647 percent between 2001 and 2012 to about $4.3 billion, according to figures compiled by University of Virginia law school professor Brandon Garrett.
By Gosia Glinska, a senior researcher at the Batten Institute at the Darden School of BusinessMinimally regulated alternative financial service providers such as check-cashing storefronts or payday lenders are deathly expensive and often result in a spiral of debt for their users, says Darden professor Gregory B. Fairchild, who’s been studying issues related to financial inclusion for around a decade.
By McIntire School of Commerce professor Thomas S. Bateman and Mary Summers Whittle, a business writer at U.Va.You can have all the luck and intuition in the world, but without extreme competence you'll be hard-pressed to make it to the moon and back again.
By U.Va. media studies professor Andrea Press and Francesca Tripodi, a Ph.D. student in sociologyOn the campus we studied from 2011-2013, students of both sexes not only accepted but embraced extreme and alarming sexist language that objectifies and hypersexualizes women.
By Kyle Kondik, director of communications at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.Tuesday night featured about as dramatic a race as we've seen in recent years, which not only delighted the political hacks on Twitter but, more importantly, produced a result that suggests a victory for the more conservative wing of the Republican Party.
But Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics said the indictment might be “too much” for Grimm, who was already facing a tough challenge.
...So you will perhaps excuse me if I have no sympathy for the efforts of gay-rights activists to smear and intimidate Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia, perhaps our most prominent scholar of law and religion, for the sin of speaking his mind. A law student and a recent graduate, spurred on by the advocacy group GetEqual, have filed freedom-of-information requests for his telephone and travel records, in what they describe as an effort at dialogue about what they consider the harmful effects of his views. This description is implausible. If they wanted to talk to him, they could kn...
Stephen Schuker, 70, a University of Virginia historian, said D-Day was the pivotal assertion of American industrial and technological superiority. He noted that in 1926 the U.S. already had 46 per cent of the world’s manufacturing capacity. By 1945 it was more than 50 percent.
Geoff Skelley, a highly-respected analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said that while turnout is always higher in an election when the incumbent is stepping aside, don’t expect an earth-shattering number of ballots cast on Tuesday.
Beyer remains the heavy favorite in Tuesday's election, said Geoffrey Skelley of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Amy Coddington, a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia, is the ensemble’s director. The 12-member group’s singers come from Albemarle, Culpeper, Madison and Rappahannock counties.
Before 17-year-old Tyler Orr became valedictorian of Berkeley Springs High School in West Virginia, he had already moved five times. Orr is now living with a legal guardian until he goes to the University of Virginia this fall, where he plans to major in chemistry. On how he became valedictorian, Orr says, “I was fully committed to my school work. I knew that I had to be to attend college because there wasn’t any money for me to do so otherwise.”
Mort Caplin trained for more than a year to get ready for the invasion. "One of my fraternity brothers from the University of Virginia was killed on that beach." The memories were fresh as the days were long. ... After the war, Caplin became a law school professor. In fact, he had both Teddy and Bob Kennedy at students at the University of Virginia. That's how he met John F. Kennedy, who made him head of the Internal Revenue Service. Caplin says to this day, President Kennedy is the only president to ever visit the IRS. He welcomed the president to IRS Headquarters on May 1...
A new book on Thomas Jefferson’s interest in maps and geography by Crozet author Joel Kovarsky, The True Geography of Our Country; Jefferson’s Cartographic Vision, was published by the University of Virginia Press in May.
Applications are rising at many elite U.S. business schools, but the increase may be more of a triumph of marketing than a growing appetite for business degrees. ...Numbers remained flat or down at some schools. Yale School of Management and University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, which both posted increases of 10.6% last year, reported declines of 2.3% and 0.26%, respectively, in the current cycle.
Women made up 20% of tenure-track faculty at Anderson and 14.3% of those with tenure in the 2012-2013 academic year, including Dr. Olian, according to school figures. By comparison, an analysis of 16 peer institutions—including the business schools at the University of Virginia, Stanford University and University of Michigan—found that, on average, about 30% of tenure-track and 19.5% of tenured faculty were women in the 2012-2013 year.
... The sudden firing and rehiring of University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan by that university’s criticized governing board fresh in many minds, Virginians began to pay a little more attention to who is really running the state’s 15, four-year higher ed institutions.