(Commentary) I know this undercuts my narrative of outrage regarding continual tuition hikes at Virginia’s public universities, but I try to present all the relevant facts. And the fact is, Virginia institutions score well for the educational “bang for the buck” they deliver. The Princeton Review has issued its “2013 Best Value Colleges,” and the University of Virginia claims the No. 1 spot, with the College of William & Mary taking No. 4.
Dozens of businesses in and around Charlottesville came together Wednesday to learn about hiring veterans. The "Virginia Values Veterans" training day was held at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
(Commentary) The author brings some perspective to the reports about U.Va. head football coach Mike London’s spelling error in a letter “formerly” offering a scholarship to a student-athlete.
On this edition of UVa Today Bob Beard talks with Susan Carkeek, the Vice President of Human Resources at the University of Virginia. Carkeek talks to CBS19 about My UVa Job, a social media campaign to showcase the many people who work in the classroom, or behind-the-scene at the university.
The University of Virginia will drop an original tenet of its financial-aid program that assured low-income students could graduate without debt, raising concerns that socioeconomic diversity will suffer in the effort to shore up the finances of AccessUVa.
The University of Virginia ranks third in the South, behind Duke and Washington & Lee universities.
The University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary ranked first and fourth among the Princeton Review’s list of top 10 best values for public colleges.
When Chase Minnifield steps on the field Thursday night as the Redskins open the preseason against the Tennessee Titans, it will mark the end of a 20-month wait for the first-year cornerback.
“The reason so many groups are spending big on Virginia is because we truly are the only game in town this year. New Jersey is all but over, and the only thing people care about in New York City is the fate of Anthony Weiner,” said Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “So on the night of the election, both parties and most political figures will look to Virginia. The results here will guide the analysts and their predictions about 2014 — however inaccurate these hasty conclusions will prove to be.”
South Carolina coach Dawn Staley typically travels in the summer, but rarely on a trip like this. Staley, the Gamecocks’ women’s basketball coach, is on a 10-day visit to Africa with former President Bill Clinton and his daughter, Chelsea. They are part of a delegation assembled to see the progress of projects initiated by the Clinton Foundation. Staley, a former University of Virginia star guard, was asked by the WNBA to join the trip as its representative and jumped at the chance.
For three years, Mark Allen was able to play on the pro squash tour and know that if things didn’t work out, he had a full scholarship to Nottingham University waiting for him. But at the age of 21, the Englishman came to an unexpected fork in the road. Today, Allen is one of the most respected squash coaches around, somebody who has his eye on turning the University of Virginia club team into one of the premier programs in the country. The 42-year-old joined the Boar’s Head Sports Club as its director of squash in April.
(Commentary; Inez Feltscher, a second-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law, contributed to this article) Leftist academics and historians have gone to great lengths to bury and distort the names and legacies of the men who defended the ugliest of American institutions; men whose philosophy on government, rights, and liberty, as it turns out, is uncomfortably close to their own. A modified but nonetheless similar tendency to subjugate continues to run through liberal policies today, replacing slavery with a cradle-to-grave entitlement system that trades liberty for material ...
However, there has been no spike in market values—either up or down—that would precipitate the financial activity, said Alex M. Johnson Jr., a law professor at the University of Virginia specializing in property and real estate transactions who reviewed the documents at the request of The Associated Press. Plus, the transactions occurred as interest rates began to emerge from record lows, he said.
What are the best U.S. colleges and universities doing to better promote collaboration, aimed at improving the college student experience? To answer this question, I researched US News & World Reports list of the best schools. The 2013 national university rankings identified the top 100 universities in the U.S. I then re-ranked the schools based on their combined Klout and Kred scores - a measure of their engagements across all major social platforms. Not surprisingly, the very best schools are also the most collaborative - see the table below. (Note: U.Va. ranked 21st overall.)
Passport to an MBA is an occasional series featuring interviews with MBA students from all over the world. The interviews were conducted at top business schools by Matt Symonds, chief editor of the B-school website MBA50.com and a guest blogger for Getting In.
Former Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño has been named to board of advisors at Media Group of America, LLC, a Republican-led company launched in the wake of the GOP’s disappointing showing in the 2012 elections in the U.S.
A team of engineers at the University of Virginia is creating three-dimensional simulations of insect flight to build tiny, aerial robots. The Flow Simulation Research Group is observing and applying how insects use their wings to fly.
Advocates for diversity in the legal profession have long identified the Law School Admissions Test as a major barrier to black and Hispanic law school applicants because on average they score lower than do whites and Asians-Americans. The blame is misplaced, University of Virginia School of Law professor Alex Johnson, Jr. argues in an article titled “Knots in the Pipeline for Perspective Lawyers of Color: The LSAT Is Not the Problem and Affirmative Action Is Not the Answer.” It appears in the latest edition of the Stanford Law & Policy Review.