(Commentary) Virginia's leading universities, including the University of Virginia where I graduated, are among the nation's finest. Yet, it's painful to know that our highly prized faculty and staff with same-sex partners are still denied equal health benefits that are available to all other married couples. Our university leaders and boards can put this right and extend equal benefits, as the overwhelming majority of America's Ivy League and top schools already do.
(Essay by Mark Edmundson, a professor of English at the University of Virginia, adapted from his latest book, “Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education,” to be published this month by Bloomsbury USA.) Soon college students all over America will be trundling to their advisers' offices to choose a major. In this moment of financial insecurity, students are naturally drawn to economics, business, and the hard sciences. But students ought to resist the temptation of those purportedly money-ensuring options and even of history and philosophy, marvelous though they may be. All...
University of Virginia researchers have found that the number of people 55 and older joining health clubs has increased 562 percent since 1987.
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges plans to announce Thursday the formation of a national commission to review how schools are governed and make recommendations for change.
In March 2013, CCAM unveiled the new 62,000 square-foot research facility which features computational and engineering research labs, high bay production space for commercial scale equipment and tools required for research in surface engineering and manufacturing systems. “We refer to it as a sandbox,” said Dr. Barry Johnson, the Senior Associate Dean for the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Chairman of the Board of Directors of CCAM. “We can play with the technology, but do so in a real environment so that when we prove that somet...
A few elementary school students are participating in the "Maker Movement" program, which is a national program geared to teaching kids skills in math and science fields. About 50 kids from three elementary schools in Albemarle County came out to the University of Virginia School of Engineering to wrap up the program.
Executive MBA programs have been around since the 1940s, but top-ranked business schools have recently started to offer the global option. The Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia graduated its first global executive MBA class in May.
(Editorial) This week's thorns go to the following: The University of Virginia, for including the Social Security numbers of 18,700 students on the address labels of health insurance brochures sent across the country, visible to anyone who handled the mail.
Among those at the center of that seismic shift is Michael Lenox, a professor at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. In March, he taught Foundations of Business Strategy on the online learning platform Coursera that drew 90,000 students from 180 countries. The second session of this course will kick off on Sept. 2. He recently spoke with Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Francesca Di Meglio.
Divorce is rarer than you might think in more affluent demographics. There is gap in divorce rates between those who are highly-educated like Abedin and Weiner (with a B.A. or more) and those without college degrees, according to a 2010 study by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
Besides being a University of Virginia nurse and caring for patients, Andrea Gum also went above and beyond for family, friends, neighbors and pets. Her nature is why this loss is especially hard for the community to overcome.
Two basic ideas underlie the legal concept of content discrimination according to a 2012 article by Lisa Kendrick, a law professor at the University of Virginia. The first is that “it is usually wrong for the government to regulate speech because of what it is saying.” On the flipside, “it is usually acceptable… for the government to regulate speech for reasons other than what it is saying.”
(Commentary) As the University of Virginia law professor Paul Stephan has noted, this view of customary international law holds that "state practice entails not the observable behavior of states, which is messy and often lawless, but rather what states assert as norms." "In other words," he writes, proponents of this view "mean not what states and their agents do, but rather what they say." Stephan observes that this kind of "new international law . . . embraces a system of formulating and imposing norms on state and individual behavior that operates outside ...
Teacher turnover negatively affects student learning in math and English, a researcher from the University of Michigan School of Education and colleagues (including James Wyckoff of the University of Virginia) found.
The victim of Wednesday’s tragic train accident near Waynesboro was Andrea Gum, 47, who most recently had worked as a nurse in the University of Virginia Medical Center's endoscopy unit.
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia has produced data that show which degrees and which schools produce the highest incomes for recent college graduates.The figures have a lot of qualifiers, but the data at least gives parents and high school seniors a better picture of what to expect after graduation.
"There are about 60 free clinics in Virginia, and we're one of the largest in terms of the patients we see and services we provide," said Erika Viccellio, executive director of the Charlottesville Free Clinic. "Having both the University of Virginia and Martha Jefferson hospitals as key partners allows us to do much more than what some of the other clinics are able to do. And it takes the support we get related to the concert, as well as the volunteerism, that allows us to do what we do. I can tell you the patients we serve are beyond grateful, and that's what matters mo...
It's a hot topic for parents and high school seniors every year: The Forbes' ranking of America's Top Colleges. But just what does "top" mean? This year's list ranks Stanford University in California No. 1; University of Virginia in Charlottesville No. 29; and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore No. 46. Forbes released its annual list this week. But Richard Vedder, director of the Center for College Affordability, says what's the behind the rankings may be more revealing.
According to Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, the attention generated from a campaign kickoff event can be fleeting. “The announcement itself is usually just a media event, a set piece full of symbolism designed to put the candidate in the best possible light,” Sabato wrote. “It’s mainly used for TV ads, after the initial burst of positive free publicity that fades quickly.”
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges announced Thursday it has formed a committee that will examine how boards and regents govern higher education – and its leaders say they hope to bring much-needed change.