The Chronicle of Higher Education's annual ranking of public college presidents' earnings said former Penn State President Spanier's $2.9 million pay, which included $1.2 million in severance and $1.2 million in deferred compensation, put him well ahead of his peers when he left Penn State in November 2011.
At first glance, Bob Bruner might appear to be a traditional US business school dean. He is smartly dressed, bespectacled and affable, with degrees from Harvard and Yale under his belt. He has a penchant for research into corporate finance, with around 300 case studies to his name. He is also dean of the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, where the neoclassical Jeffersonian-style buildings mean this is perhaps the only business school in the world where students can congregate under cut-glass chandeliers and beside Chippendale balustrades. But it only takes a short conve...
University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato said issues surrounding gifts to the governor and his family have made only one thing clear: “The law is murky,” he said. “Our gift laws are so vague that inevitably this will lead to a scandal,” said Sabato, director the Center for Politics at U.Va. “Well, we’ve got one.”
"When people feel that their economic foundations are insecure, they're often reluctant to have a child," said Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, which wasn't involved in the Pew study. "We've seen this for many years in places like Spain and Italy and Greece — a real problem of unemployment that is linked to low levels of fertility."
When Heather Berg arrived at the University of Virginia in the fall of 2011, she was struck by the seemingly posh lifestyle many of her fellow students enjoyed. Dressing up for football games, going out to dinner on a whim, paying the steep admission for a day at the races: To Ms. Berg, a first-generation college student, the sheen of privilege was unsettling. Now finishing her second year, she has friends who also felt that culture shock at first. But it's been hard to find them, and to speak candidly with anyone about the impact of money – or lack of it. "We talk about race, g...
In a different light, we have Helen Dragas, an accomplished businesswoman and real estate developer, and, historically, a force for the good in Hampton Roads. On our 2012 list, Dragas ranked number 11, up 11 spots from her 2011 ranking at 22. And yet, the past 12 months have not been kind to Dragas.
All one needs to remember in understanding the Republicans’ intransigence, says University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, is that Obama carried just 209 congressional districts in 2012, while Republican challenger Mitt Romney won 224 districts. This is because of careful, data-driven gerrymandering.
Ed Burton, an economics professor at the University of Virginia, said he expects locally oriented financial companies will continue to grow. “I think the future is going to be decentralized all over the country [and] you’re going to have small investment banking," said Burton, who was the conference's opening speaker.
“People were expecting either Rounds vs. Brendan Johnson or Rounds vs. Herseth Sandlin,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Now they have to factor in the possibility that Weiland being in the race deters Herseth Sandlin.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education tells us the median salary of public university presidents rose 4.7 percent in 2011-12 to more than $440,000 a year. This increase vastly outpaced the rate of inflation, as well as the earnings of the typical worker in the U.S. economy. Perhaps, most relevant for this community, it also surpassed the compensation growth for university professors.
Robert S. Mueller III was awakened at home close to 1:30 a.m. on April 19 as one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing was in cardiac arrest and the other was on the run. By 3 a.m., after an F.B.I. agent had used a fingerprint scanner on the dying suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in a hospital emergency room to learn his identity, Mr. Mueller, the F.B.I. director, had arrived in a suit and tie at his agency’s headquarters in downtown Washington. His agents gave him the bad news: two years earlier, the F.B.I. had interviewed, and closed its file on, Mr. Tsarnaev. Mr. Mueller took it in withou...
When Tina Gordon Chism studied drama at the Duke Ellington School for the Performing Arts for a year, her dream was to be an actress. But once she started going to auditions, reality set in. “I saw the scarcity of roles that really equaled my training. African American roles at the time, and even now, we struggle with quality roles, meaningful storylines, even sophistication in how our image is presented,” says Chism. … “The Cosby Show “ was her inspiration. As a first-year English major at the University of Virginia, Chism wrote a television script of an episode...
A study of college professors published in 2012 by researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Connecticut found that only 12 percent of fathers took paid parental leave when it was offered, compared with 69 percent of mothers.
For those who didn’t get accepted to the schools of their choice, hope is not lost. A few programs, including the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, are offering feedback phone calls for those who are thinking about reapplying in the next admissions cycle.
The University of Virginia is responding to a new report that says the school is not letting in enough low-income students.
What Was Menopause Like? You can probably expect to reach menopause around the same time as mom did, JoAnn Pinkerton, M.D., a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Virginia, told Health magazine, and possibly to experience the same symptoms.
Authorities charged a Dominica man Thursday with manslaughter in the death of a University of Virginia student struck by a dive boat propeller last winter. Casey Schulman, 22, of Falls Church was hit by the boat in December as she swam in waters just off a beach where her classmates were relaxing.
Anastasiya Hvaleva, 26, is a Kyrgyzstan native and award-winning Piedmont Virginia Community College student who came to the U.S. when her family lost their business during the 2005 Tulip Revolution. She spoke no English when she moved to Philadelphia to live with family and set about rebuilding her life. Hvaleva is graduating from PVCC with a 4.0 grade-point average; was named the 2013 top community college student in the state by Phi Theta Kappa, the honor society representing two-year colleges; and has been accepted to the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.
Handicapping the field of potential 2016 GOP presidential candidates, the political wonks at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics predicted Thursday that Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will consider a bid if he wins the Old Dominion’s gubernatorial race this fall.
The Military Whistleblower Protection Act of 1988 is supposed to protect members of the military from retaliation for reporting wrongdoing of a variety of stripes, including sexual assault and/or harassment. According to a University of Virginia briefing paper presented to the United Nations Special Rappoteur on Violence Against Women, this law “is one protection to encourage reporting of violations both within and outside the chain of command.”