Stephen Colbert gave the valedictory address at the University of Virginia on Saturday, and he couldn't resist getting in a dig at the controversy last year in which the board ousted Teresa Sullivan as president, only to hire her back after faculty members, alumni and others protested the removal of a president they admired.
Three African-American teaching fellows from the University of Virginia's Curry School are getting ready to give back to Charlottesville and Albemarle County schools. The Fellowship Program gives the students financial support, mentoring, and professional guidance as they learn to become teachers. Even after they walk across the stage to receive their diplomas, the program helps them transition into their first teaching jobs in Charlottesville and Albemarle.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business is accepting applications for its Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards. The awards recognize growing businesses in economically challenged areas of Virginia that overcame adversity and now are able to give back to their communities.
He also took issue with the suggestion that his study, with the University of Virginia's Josipa Roksa, questioned the contribution that college makes to student learning ("Neither Roksa nor I have made such a claim," he wrote) -- although certainly some of the book's champions have done so.
In Academically Adrift, Richard Arum, a professor of sociology and education at New York University, and Josipa Roksa, an associate professor of sociology and education at the University of Virginia, documented much smaller growth in learning over a typical undergraduate career, as measured by the test.
The Ivy League consists of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Penn – all schools located in the Northeast. What if you want to attend college in the South to be near your family or due to an aversion to cold climates? Well, there are plenty of world-renowned institutions of higher learning in the American south, and it just so happens that eight of them – including the University of Virginia – provide educational experiences and pedigrees that many would say are comparable to that of the "Ivy League."
(Commentary) The best talk I attended at the annual meetings of the Association for Private Enterprise Education was a luncheon speech given by Kenneth Elzinga of the University of Virginia. I have known Ken since the early 2000s when we both were on the faculty of the George Mason University Law School's "economics for federal judges" program. I saw then that he was someone who highly valued, and highly invested in, the craft of teaching economics. Ken's talk was on teaching economics and was very well prepared. I don't remember where exactly but there were a couple of p...
The University of Virginia announced this week the creation of a university “crowdfunding” portal designed to enable alumni and other donors to support research projects.
Rob Plummer always aspired to be a sports agent. After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1994, he determined how to get started.
Accountable care organizations -- a key to federal health reform efforts -- will rarely be successful and won't generate the cost savings advocates hope for, a vocal critic asserted. The ACO model rests on an assumption that physicians will work in teams with hospitals and other physicians to achieve savings for their respective communities as a whole, said Jeff Goldsmith, professor of public health sciences at the University of Virginia. But the model ignores the fact that many doctors have no need to work with hospitals and that those hospitals can't generate enough savings in their ...
A keynote speaker at today's World Congress of Families Sydney 2013 will deliver findings on a new international report showing two-parent families are affiliated with better education outcomes in Australia and much of Asia. The Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia Brad Wilcox said the inaugural 2013 World Family Map Report he co-authored shows that two-parent family gives children an educational advantage.
Eighty-one of the students graduating at the University of Virginia this weekend earned their bachelor’s degrees in three years or less. Fourteen graduates have earned master’s and bachelor’s degrees in four years. These fast-track students will be wearing orange academic stoles as they process down the Lawn on May 19.
One of the report's authors, Dr Brad Wilcox from the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, said it showed that in most of the developed world children are more likely to thrive academically when they have two parents at home.
If you like presidential elections and crunching numbers after the fact, then answer this question: Does a state's number of "native" residents have an impact on which candidate win its electoral votes? The answer: It depends -- on many factors. This report from the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia uses new data from the U.S. Census Bureau to try to answer that question. What it found is diverse, complicated and fascinating.
The director of communications for the University of Virginia Center for Politics felt like it was a bad look for the president. “Standard press flack rules – don’t let the boss where (sic) a funny hat! – need to be updated to include ‘hold you own umbrella!’ Kyle D. Kondik wrote on Twitter.
For 15 years, David Roper stood in front of the classroom, teaching high school students about English literature, writing and history. Most afternoons were spent mentoring and coaching student athletes. These days he’s still in the classroom, not in front lecturing, but sitting alongside other Tri-County Technical College biology and chemistry students, many of them working adults like himself, seeking new careers in the second act of their lives.