University of Virginia officials are proposing raising tuition and fees by a few percent each of the next several years, starting with 2.9- and 3.9-percent increases in the coming year for in- and out-of-state undergraduates respectively.
"Look, it's what we all thought when Obama was re-elected," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "There is just not going to be a lot of new legislation in Obama's second term, unless he wins the House in 2014, and even then it looks very, very tough."
Years from now, the 2012-13 Virginia basketball season might be remembered with a simple phrase: No MSG. Back in November, Virginia had a chance to get to Madison Square Garden to play in the Preseason NIT and came up one game short. On Wednesday night, UVa again fell a victory short, falling to Iowa in the NIT quarterfinals, 75-64, in front of a crowd of 11,141 at John Paul Jones Arena.
It may not be ever after, but Virginia Festival of the Book officials are living happily right now. After a five-day, 200-event festival that featured some 400 authors and speakers with thousands in attendance, officials are calling the 19th annual festival a success.
Many of Faulkner’s papers are already in academic libraries, with the bulk of them at the University of Virginia, which he named as the recipient of his manuscripts in 1961, a year before his death at the age of 64. His daughter’s family lived near that university, in Charlottesville, and he spent many semesters there as a writer in residence.
“It takes two to know one.” One of the many riddles that Gregory Bateson – the anthropologist, philosopher, biologist, psychologist, and high priest of cybernetics – left behind when he died of respiratory disease at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1980 after a lifetime of cigarette smoking. Stephen Nachmanovitch, one of Gregory Bateson’s most devoted students, and Nora Bateson, his daughter from his third marriage to Lois Cammack, will join UVA anthroplogist Ira Bashkow to host the Bateson Symposium April 10-12.
(Co-written by Martha Derthick, professor emerita of government at the University of Virginia) Just as the Internet promises to change the delivery of instruction, it challenges as well the administration of school discipline. In a recent wave of cases, lower federal courts have reached contradictory conclusions about school officials’ authority to punish students’ speech in social media, raising difficult questions about the applicability of today’s First Amendment doctrine to online speech. The Supreme Court has declined three times to review off-campus speech cases but is ...
Molly Bishop Shadel, associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, who teaches oral advocacy and verbal persuasion, is one of the experts quoted.
Most of Brandon Isaiah’s students have no idea he was a professional football player. Teaching started out for him as an avenue to coaching high school football, but it quickly became a way to give back to the local community he’s loved for 12 years. Now the 30-year-old athlete is an advocate for getting black male teachers in the classroom.
The economic impact of agribusiness in the Dan River Region accounted for $1.2 billion and more than 7,000 jobs in the Dan River Region in 2011, according to an agriculture impact study released Wednesday from the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
The reaction to Paul’s filibuster to stall a vote to confirm John Brennan as CIA director foreshadowed this problem. Almost immediately after the event, many members of the neoconservative foreign policy establishment blasted Paul as everything from a “wacko bird” to leader of the “Code Pink Faction” of the GOP. This response makes eminent sense to University of Virginia Professor and political prognosticator Larry Sabato, who says figures like Paul and Cruz, who speak for a more libertarian message, will necessarily have to apply that message to issues that have ...
The article cites rankings that show that U.Va.’s School of Law is No. 1 in the nation in having its graduates actually practice law.
Neither a late March snowstorm nor an entrenched rivalry stopped seven football players from Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia from showing up to Sunday’s Faith, Family and Football Central Virginia Rally to share their testimonies with students and their families at Nelson County High School.
According to a new study, teenagers who struggle to connect with their peers often struggle to make friends and avoid problems later in life, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Virginia published the results of the study in the journal Child Development.
As the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments about same-sex marriage for the second day, a University of Virginia law professor is giving insight into what to expect from the justices. "These things can be tricky, though, and we saw that in the health care case recently, where the alignments weren't as predictable," said Rich Schragger, a law professor at UVa.
Students from Argentina and Chile, many who have never visited the United States before, are getting a unique lesson in American politics. Students had the chance to square off with University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato. The hour-long seminar was hosted at UVA's Center for Politics as part of a week-long program focused on youth leadership.
Others see huge drawbacks to Rand Paul as a national candidate. “He has a fervent following, and intensity matters in primaries,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist. “But he has some very unconventional views that will be easy targets for his opponents, and the Democrats.”
The article discusses research led by UVa psychologist Thomas Talhelm that examined the extent to which “WEIRD” populations (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) define themselves in individualistic terms vs. as members of a community network.
A recent study by the University of Virginia also found that the dropout rate was 29 percent above average in schools with high levels of teasing and bullying.
If the University of Virginia has considered it necessary to use live cats to train pediatrics residents in intubation, then we trust there must have been an essential tradeoff: the comfort of the cats versus the comfort and health of the untold number of babies that these physicians in training eventually would treat. The issue always has boiled down to differences of opinion over humane treatment vs. human treatment.