The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business makes its debut in the EMBA ranks at No. 13. This year was the first that the new program was eligible to be ranked. Darden is unique in that a large portion of its first-year core curriculum is presented via distance learning.
The University of Michigan will seek $4 billion in its next fund-raising campaign, including $1 billion for scholarships and financial aid. If U-M reaches that goal, it would be the largest amount ever raised by a public university in the nation. The campaign will kick off Friday with a series of celebratory events on the Ann Arbor campus.
Two Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control agents violated policy when one pulled a gun and another tried to shatter an SUV window with a flashlight during a confrontation with a University of Virginia student wrongly suspected of buying beer underage, the agency said Thursday.
"I'm of the view that people need to be fully engaged in adult life in their mid-twenties," says Dr. Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, as well as associate professor of sociology at the university. "People flourish in their careers and their lives in general if they get serious during this time of their life. If they are still jumping from one job to another, they are not getting those networking experiences that will serve them in their career."
As the possibility of a federal indictment swirled around scandal-plagued Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell this summer, Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli was planning a “dramatic” break from the sitting governor in which he would use the Virginia state Constitution to try to remove McDonnell from office, a prominent state political analyst reported Thursday. According to Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, Cuccinelli planned to employ a never-before-used section of the state Constitution to deem McDonnell unfit to govern.
The post-election analysis of Larry Sabato and his team at the University of Virginia Center for Politics contains a juicy “what-if” tidbit. According to the latest edition of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, losing Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, the state’s attorney general, was prepared to invoke a never-before-used section of the Virginia Constitution against embattled Gov. Bob McDonnell if McDonnell had been indicted for his role in a gifts scandal that remains under investigation.
ROTC detachments at the University of Virginia will hold a unique joint ceremony to mark the POW/MIA Vigil and Veterans Day.
(By Kusum Ailawadi and Paul Farris, Landmark Communications Professor of Business Administration at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business) Eliminating a loyalty program that was being used primarily to deny promotions to non-members is a good idea for Shaw’s and Jewel-Osco supermarkets. But watch out for the temptation of “everyday” low prices in lieu of promotions. You may have to find new ways to target and deliver them, but you can’t afford to do away with promotions.
Like many Southern institutions of higher learning, the University of Virginia has a history of slavery, segregation, and racial tensions. While that's a part of the school's past, many say it left a lasting legacy and the effects are still present today. UVA President Teresa Sullivan has recently appointed a commission on slavery at the university, and there are several groups at UVA dedicated to working toward greater diversity and African-American achievement. An event on Friday and Saturday will bring people from across the commonwealth together to discuss how slavery has impacted ...
“Lost Childhood” has been produced in a variety of formats since, including concert readings and piano-vocal workshops, and in a staged workshop in Israel’s Tel Aviv in 2007. In 2010, in celebration of Nir’s 80th birthday, scenes were performed at a lavish party organized by his daughter, Sarah Maslin Nir, a New York Times reporter. His eldest son, Daniel Nir, a financial contributor to the opera’s development, said, “The work combines my father’s double passions: to get his story out and music.” He and his brother, Aaron Nir, following their fat...
"I have a hard time seeing how her appearing with the President really helps her out enough to make it worth her while," said Geoff Skelley, with the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, which tracks congressional races around the country.
Gov. Bob McDonnell named three new board members and two advisers to help troubled Norfolk State University on Thursday, the day after the vice rector was indicted on charges of Medicaid fraud. Named to advisory positions are Jim Dyke, a former secretary of education for Virginia, and University of Virginia professor Ervin Jordan, an NSU alumnus.
Thursday was opening night for the 29th annual Virginia Film Festival. The opening night gala kicks off four days of movies, with over 100 screenings going on around Charlottesville and the University of Virginia grounds. The event featured the film 'Nebraska', a father/son road trip drama headlined by Saturday Night Live alumnus Will Forte.
(Commentary) If the GOP brand has decayed that much in four years, it’s a problem that won’t just affect Virginia in the near future: as the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato notes, the Old Dominion “has come the closest to the national average in the last two presidential elections and is probably a necessary piece of both party’s Electoral College plans in 2016.”
At the summit, the University of Virginia’s Institute for Environmental Negotiation will lead interactive group discussions about how these two communities can better collaborate.
“Kennedy had the good luck to govern at the time of peak power for America,” Larry Sabato explains in a phone interview from his office at the University of Virginia. “It was a troubled time in terms of civil rights and some other issues, but, by and large, it was a happy time. Things were moving in the right direction, and then the assassination, it was kind of a rebaptism by blood. Kennedy became a secular saint,” especially to the Democratic base, which has celebrated Kennedy at every convention since 1960.
(Commentary) In 2011, psychologist Angeline S. Lillard, from the University of Virginia, published a study in the journal Pediatrics that asserted that, due to its rapidly changing camera shots, the “SpongeBob SquarePants” show significantly interfered with the cognitive processing and attention span of preschool viewers. Nickelodeon responded saying that the study had “questionable methodology” and was not intended for a preschool audience.
(By U.Va. law professor Robert F. Turner, co-founder of U.Va.’s Center for National Security) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is reportedly more than a little annoyed that his planned efforts to push several nominations through the Senate have been undermined by Sen. Lindsey Graham’s decision to delay consideration of all nominations until the president allows witnesses to the Benghazi attack to testify on Capitol Hill. Mr. Reid’s complaints would carry more force if he would police the abuse of the use of “holds” by his own party. This is far more than just a m...
Kagan and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wondered about the difference between legislative bodies such as Congress, where the audience members are spectators, and a town council, where citizens sometimes are compelled to attend to receive specific recognition or make requests. Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor representing the complaining residents, Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens, said that is what distinguished the case from the court’s landmark 1983 decision in Marsh v. Chambers.