University of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan, who gave the commencement address, compared the students’ beginning journey to that of Lewis and Clark. In each case, she said, “preparation has been key.” Sullivan urged students to seek out opportunities in the coming years and take part in “lateral learning,” exploring many disciplines, and further advised students to “get to know people different from you.”
Over the past few weeks, we have published the top 10 B-schools in each specialty area, from accounting to entrepreneurship. Today, the last individual specialty ranking looks at corporate strategy. The schools at the top of the list are best at helping their students find solutions to real, complex business problems. Leading the way is the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. At McIntire, all business students participate in the school’s Integrated Core Experience (ICE), a two-semester grouping of required courses that cover the basics of business.
Daniel T. Willingham, Ph.D. ’90, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, explained that critical thinking—the desired outcome of so much learning and education—“is hard, it’s taxing…It’s not obvious that it’s going to pay off.” The best way to inculcate such thinking, he said, is lots of practice, which makes this a “curricular issue”: looking beyond one course to the deep problems in a discipline, and devising a curriculum that cumulatively teaches students how to approach such problems.
I have come to recognize that seminal moments fall more ordinarily into two fairly distinctive categories. The first is that which is foisted upon an institution. It may be crisis precipitated by a regional accreditation review, a change in leadership, admission or advancement numbers that tank, or public relations disasters, large and sometimes small. Every action causes a reaction and from bad institutional moments good policy can emerge. In the end, it's an outcome likely from recent debacles at fine institutions like Penn State and the University of Virginia. The right leadership in sh...
As is the case with many great leaders, O’Connor does more than can be recorded on a balance sheet or in a box score. He espouses a view that identifies his principal task not as winning, however important that is, but building men who can succeed beyond baseball.
By Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman, Class of 1963 Research Professor at the U.Va. School of Law.Given that Chinese counterfeiting has benefits as well as costs, and considering China’s historical resistance to Western pressure, trying to push China to change its approach to intellectual property law is not worth the political and diplomatic capital the United States is spending on it.
FRANCE 24 interviewed Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, for further insight into just how worried (or not) the president should be.
Four Wythe County teachers are among a small group of Virginia’s teachers named the commonwealth’s first “history specialists,” during a ceremony in Tuesday in Abingdon. The teachers expanded their American history expertise and honed their teaching skills over the past five years through a teacher training program offered by the Southwest Virginia Public Education Consortium and the University of Virginia.
Dan Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, is a leading expert on how students learn. "Data from the last thirty years leads to a conclusion that is not scientifically challengeable: thinking well requires knowing facts, and that’s true not only because you need something to think about," Willingham has written.
The University of Virginia’s recent unpleasantness (“Climbing from the top,” The Daily Progress, June 9) actually strengthens and deepens the commitment of the university’s stakeholders from around the globe, and makes our institution even stronger. One sign of strength: The university completed a $3-billion fundraising campaign. How did UVa do this, after last year’s turmoil? We won. The students, faculty, staff and alumni overwhelmingly pitted themselves against the Board of Visitors, and the board relented.
Barb Wixom, associate professor of commerce at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, said that faculty are looking for access to real, big-data sets. “They want to show students the impact of the data explosion, demonstrate the linkage between data and business outcomes, and teach exactly how to achieve those outcomes,” she added.
“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.” When F. Scott Fitzgerald uttered that classic, revelatory quote, he couldn’t possibly have known how aptly that sentiment would apply to one Tiki Barber, the handsome, once-in-a-generation running back with the infectious smile who conquered Manhattan, only to fall—and fall precipitously—from his perch.
The University of Virginia, the only school in the state to offer free online classes through Coursera, says its first session was a success. Not too far away, Piedmont Virginia Community College is leading the state's community college system with enrollment in online courses. University of Virginia physics professor Lou Bloomfield is sifting through mail from around the world, snapshots of appreciation for teaching one of the school's first "massive open online classes."
A University of Virginia publishing group has officially launched a new website that offers free access to papers written by our founding fathers. Founders Online is now up for everyone to use.
Ashley Deeks, a University of Virginia law professor and former State Department adviser on matters of extradition explains the Obama administration's options.
As a youngster with cerebral palsy and growing up in Nunda, Dr. Thomas E. Moran asked God, “Why me?” At 16, while working as a camp counselor at Genesee Valley Rotary Camp, Moran says he got his answer. “God didn’t burden me with CP, he gave me a gift for a reason, so I could shine His light as a gift to others,” said Moran, will return home later this month to lead two camps at Keshequa Central School.
Warren T. Byrd Jr., FASLA, will receive the ASLA Medal, the Society’s highest award for a landscape architect. Byrd taught full-time for 26 years at the University of Virginia, serving seven years as chair of the landscape architecture department. At the same time, he also built and maintained a thriving practice—Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects in Charlottesville, Va.—that has won more than 70 national and regional awards for its work to date.
Newcomb Hall at the University of Virginia recorded 1.38 inches of rain, he said.
A University of Virginia study found that surgical patients on Medicaid are 13 percent more likely to die than uninsured patients and 97 percent more likely to die than privately insured patients. This is unacceptable and inhumane.
“We are seeing a solidly red state turn blue,” said Dustin Cable, a demographer at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service in Charlottesville. “Virginia is really ground zero for a lot of what we see at the national level.”