Jane Hansen, a professor emerita, is among the signers of a statement taking issue with a report issued by the National Council on Teacher Quality that was critical of teacher preparation programs.
"Without a college education, people are three times more likely to get divorced than people with a college education," said Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
The Downtown Mall will be bustling at 6pm Saturday, August 17, with a back-to-school festival. Hosted by Charlottesville City Schools, HYPE, and City of Promise, the event will feature music and entertainment from local groups, information tables, prizes, free haircuts, and sports physicals. Organizers are also hoping to give away 1,500 stocked backpacks. The event is being sponsored by the University of Virginia, Farmington Country Club, and Virginia National Bank.
Tony Bennett will headline a show at Charlottesville's nTelos Wireless Pavilion to benefit the University of Virginia Cancer Center and the Compassionate Care Initiative at the UVa School of Nursing.
“The poll underlines what we all know — this is a toss-up race and one of the GOP’s best chances for a seat pick-up against a Democratic incumbent,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Cotton was the one the Republicans wanted to run against Pryor, and this poll shows why. No incumbent wants to be in a tie starting out with a challenger, but a lot can happen in the 15 months remaining.”
New research at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is investigating the use of sound waves during major surgery as a way to prevent potentially deadly kidney damage.
A new study has found that agriculture uses far more fresh water than any other human activity. “Tapped Out: How Can Cities Secure Their Water Future?” looked at four municipalities — Phoenix, Arizona; San Antonio, Texas; San Diego, California; and Adelaide, Australia – and was authored by 14 researchers from the Nature Conservancy and several departments at the University of Virginia and Minnesota.
(Commentary) A short while ago, I argued in The Atlantic that the high-tuition, high-aid model was not working. Facing too many funding priorities, it was difficult for schools to keep aid in line with tuition when aid is an easy target for cuts. This parallels closely to the world of social insurance, in which means tested programs for the poor fail to have the same widespread level of support that universal benefit programs do. The recent decisions at UVA showcase this theory in practice.
Moments that made news 40, 50 and 60 years ago are back in the spotlight. The University of Virginia Library just launched an archive of thousands of film clips that capture life in Roanoke during some very politically charged times.
But University of Virginia political analyst Geoff Skelley says, while attacks are easy to come by, it could be difficult to hear policy debates over the negative noise.
"That's going to dominate the headlines, especially if there are more revelations out there, which it seems like there could be for both of them," Skelley said.
When it comes to satisfying the human need for nature - Wellington's doing well. This from a visiting professor from the University of Virginia, who's here to explore Wellington as a 'living city'. Professor Tim Beatley says humans evolved alongside nature, so to be fully productive and happy we need a connection with it.
Bonus checks to teachers are the final step to complete the three-year School Improvement Grant at Laguna-Acoma High School, according to Assistant Superintendent and Director of Student Instruction Gloria Chavez. Grants/Cibola County Schools received the grant four years ago that included a collaborative effort with the University of Virginia to turnaround a failing L-AHS. “L-AHS was considered a pilot project in the state,” said Eric Thomas, a representative of the University of Virginia, to the G/CCS board. U.Va. is currently collaborating with five other districts in the state ...
That leaves only the Senate in question. But regardless of its future, it seems a divided government is inevitable at least until 2022, when districts will be redrawn following the U.S. census. “The polarization will continue,” predicted Larry Sabato, a political-science professor at the University of Virginia. Sabato said America’s electorate is becoming on average 2 percent more racially and ethnically diverse every four years, which isn’t great news for Republican presidential candidates who have traditionally polled better among white voters.
Thomas Jefferson left behind thousands of letters and other documents that have become the challenge for a team at Princeton University to put in one place. From an office at Firestone Library, general editor Barbara B. Oberg and a staff of seven others work to publish one new volume a year of the correspondence and papers of the nation’s third president. Called the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, the project is a painstaking process that has been going on for more than half a century and involved different hands along the way.
There’s been a lot of talk lately about using financial aid to increase college completion. But there hasn’t been much research on whether – and how – need-based aid helps students after they enroll. A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research examines those questions. The paper, “Looking Beyond Enrollment: College Access, Persistence, and Graduation,” investigates the effects of the Florida Student Access Grant, a need-based state aid program, on enrollment and graduation by comparing students who qualified for the grant to those who j...
Even with security measures in place, there’s also potential for electronic eavesdropping, says Kamin Whitehouse, an associate professor at the University of Virginia who studies smart buildings. His research has shown that even if data traffic from wireless smart devices in the home is encrypted, an attacker can still analyze network traffic patterns and, by making a few assumptions about human behavior, get an idea of what’s going on inside the house. “Once the house starts becoming fully connected, there’s no reason to think that it won’t become a target,&rdquo...
The working classes are less likely to get married or have children in wedlock than the middle-classes as they struggle with the financial commitment, a study has found. Job insecurity and lower wages are leaving blue collar workers disillusioned at the prospect of having meaningful relationships, according to the researchers at University of Virginia and University of Harvard.
Jeff Trammell, a D.C. lobbyist and gay Democratic activist, was elated when the Supreme Court ruled in late June that the federal government must treat legally married gay couples the same as married heterosexual couples. But as the outgoing leader of the College of William and Mary’s governing Board of Visitors, Trammell also worried that the ruling would make Virginia’s vaunted public universities less attractive for gay academics. Virginia prohibits same-sex marriage and does not offer health benefits to domestic partners of state employees.
Working-class Americans are now less likely to get married, stay married and have their children within marriage than those who are college-educated, a new University of Virginia and Harvard University study finds.
“I would have bet on Chris Christie [to beat Booker in a governor’s race], and I think deep-down Booker thought the same. So a Senate seat is the other big prize, and it was available for the taking,” says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “When he inevitably runs for president, Booker will claim executive experience from Newark and national expertise via the Senate. Not a bad combination. Somehow, I doubt Booker plans a terribly long Senate stay before his next move.”