Faced with a recalcitrant Congress and a constrained budget, President Obama and his top aides are increasingly working to mobilize an outside coalition of corporate, nonprofit and academic groups to promote White House economic and social policies. The strategy will be on display Thursday as the White House holds a summit with more than 100 college and university presidents, who will promise to enroll more low-income students and ensure that they graduate.
(By Michael Lenox, associate dean and academic director of the Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business) I recently completed teaching the second session of my Foundations of Business Strategy massively open online course (MOOC) through the Coursera platform and I continue to be amazed by the reach and impact of MOOCs.
Representatives of local environmental and business groups gave a warm welcome to University of Virginia’s School of Architecture students Monday as they began a weeklong design study of the U.S. 29 corridor from Ivy Road to the South Fork Rivanna River.
That leaves the lower courts to spin their own "ad-hoc, often inconsistent, and sometimes ill-considered" conclusions, says Rachel Harmon, a professor of law at the University of Virginia. They support a bullet fired in Newark, perhaps, and find a similar shot unconstitutional in Trenton. The result, she says, is a national patchwork, one where "many unconstitutional uses of force go uncompensated and undeterred."
The Charlottesville Women's Four Miler is celebrating a fundraising first. Participants raised $370,000 to support the University of Virginia Cancer Center's breast care program. The group presented the check to the center Monday night.
The University of Virginia has a host of events scheduled in January to commemorate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. This schedule kicks off January 19 with the 29th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration.
Thirteen House members since fall have announced that they will not seek re-election, including nine Republicans. That's significant, because about 90 percent of incumbents win re-election, said Kyle Kondik, a politics expert at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(Commentary) With rising Medicaid costs squeezing what they can spend on education, highways and many other things, states are interested in containing the cost of health care. A recent health care cost containment report sponsored by the University of Virginia argues that the need for such actions is urgent and that states have to do a much better job of leading the way.
Last September, the CIA quietly changed its long-standing policy for how it would process certain records requests byimplementing a new fee structure that will essentially discourage the public from trying to get the agency to declassify secret government documents because the costs are too high, open-government advocates have charged. Among the four complainants is Katelyn Sack, a University of Virginia graduate student conducting research on lie detectors.
The University of Virginia Men's Lacrosse team has donated the head of a lacrosse stick to Westhill High School in memory of Anna Pullano, a senior who died last year in a car crash. Several members of the university's team knew Pullano, said Westhill Superintendent Casey Barduhn. They wanted to honor her with a memorial lacrosse head that will be placed in the school's trophy case, he said.
Saying that “frivolous” open records requests for faculty members’ emails and other communications have a potential chilling effect on academic freedom, a joint faculty-administrative body at the University of California at Los Angeles has drafted a first-of-its-kind statement to protect the confidentiality of frank, collaborative exchanges among scholars discussing their research.
(By Lynn A. Isabella, associate professor of business administration at the Darden School of Business) Are you a manager in the middle? Do you experience demands from the top at the same time you hear concerns from the bottom? Do you often feel ignored or dismissed? Being a manager in the middle isn’t easy. Middle managers can feel caught in a vice – squeezed together by the top and bottom – or pulled apart. Neither of these are positions of strength, which may be why middle managers have traditionally been a bit looked down on.
Such characterizations wouldn't be helpful to Biden if he were to run for president in 2016, a prospect he hasn't ruled out. He's already a "heavy underdog," assuming Clinton runs, and Gates' assertions about Biden's judgment will turn up in debates and television ads, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "This is the kind of criticism that will have an impact in a general election," he said in an email. "Some independently minded voters might be swayed by such a harsh assessment of Biden."
We'll see, said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "If he told the truth, he'll be fine," Sabato said. "As long as he wasn't involved in the act itself and the cover-up and he fired those involved he's fine. If he lied, it's over."
“It’s no secret that there was a lot of tension before this race,” said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. “It was well-known in the community.”
During the several years that Evans Hall, new SOM building, has been in the works, people have complained that the giant building is out of scale with the neighborhood. The design has at times been unfavorably compared to an airport terminal; neighbors raised concerns about the structure “looming” over them. One neighbor challenged the building design in court, and lost. None of that was apparent during Thursday’s panel discussion, which featured Foster; former Yale President Rick Levin; Bob Stern, dean of Yale’s school of architecture; and Karen Van Lengen, former dean...
(By G. Edward White, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law and University Professor) There has been a good deal of recent commentary about a perceived “crisis” in American legal education. A combination of rising tuition rates for law schools and a decline in the number of entry-level jobs in the legal profession has resulted in reduced numbers of applicants to law schools, and a corresponding reduction in entering law school class sizes. From the perspective of recent history, the “crisis” represents a potentially dramatic change in the stature and pro...
They've performed for President Barack Obama, appeared on the TV shot The Office and the movie “Pitch Perfect.” Now, the University of Virginia's a cappella group, The Hullabahoos, is helping raise money so deserving military students and spouses can go to college.