Would enrolling more out-of-state students help finance the state’s university system, raise its national reputation, and spur the economy? Or would it be a slap in the face to state citizens who support the system with their taxes?
State leaders have been wrangling with such questions. A proposal to raise the cap on out-of-state enrollees surfaced recently at the January meeting of the UNC Board of Governors.
The problem doesn't always require surgery, says David Jones, MD, chief of general thoracic surgery at the University of Virginia Health System. "Most times, we are able to drain the fluid without surgery," says Jones, a spokesman for the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. "But when you don't get in early enough, it progresses. It starts as a fluid, then it gets a consistency like Jell-O, and then it causes a fibrous buildup on the lungs, which looks like an orange peel," says Jones.
On Sunday night, Virginia, as expected, did not make the NCAA Tournament. Instead, UVa will play in the postseason NIT.
A broad ruling against the University of Texas affirmative action program could cause colleges to take into account various socioeconomic measures, including income, neighborhood and family composition. Such a step would require an increase in these colleges’ financial aid spending but would help them enroll significant numbers of minority students. “If there are changes to how we define diversity,” said Greg W. Roberts, the dean of admission at the University of Virginia, referring to the court case, “then I expect schools will really work hard at identifying low-incom...
The good news is that there are institutions trying to improve how nurses and doctors work together. One bright light in the area of interprofessional education is the University of Virginia. With the strong backing of Dorrie Fontaine, the dean of the School of Nursing, the university requires interprofessional education for its nursing and medical school curriculums.
Nine months after the University of Virginia removed its president, prompting a storm of protest, and then reinstated her, the university still cannot go more than a few days or weeks without some new reminder of that spectacle, or persisting tensions between the president and the trustee who ousted her.
The national health-care plan likely will gobble up money the University of Virginia hoped to save as auditors review its health-care plan.
The columnist lauds U.Va.’s choice of Stephen Colbert as the keynote speaker at Valediction Exercises.
A program called "Science Straight Up" hosted University of Virginia physics professor Bob Hirosky to discuss the Higgs boson at the Black Market Moto Saloon Thursday night.
But it’s not just states close to the Mason-Dixon line that are trending Democratic. North Carolina, Texas and Florida are all adding voters that tend to vote for Democrats. If these trends continue, the GOP could be chased out of its last national stronghold, making the party less and less relevant to national politics. “All the research in my field shows that once young people form a party attachment most people hold it for life or for many decades,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “Right now, young voters in these...
Coleman was among a number of Richmond-area and Virginia educators to play a role in the conference. “We can’t lose sight of that it’s about excellence in education and opportunity,” said Patrice Grimes, an associate professor in education at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) William H. Goodwin Jr., a Richmond businessman, told reporter Jenna Johnson of the Washington Post that the news media should not report on issues that cast the U.Va. board in a poor light. From his standpoint, the school's internal squabbles are none of the public's business. But to proclaim that transparency is a deterrent to good government, I feel certain, would not have gone over well with Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the university.
Instead of going to the beach or the ACC Tournament in Greensboro, some University of Virginia students put roofs on houses.
"Portman is politically conservative, but he's never come across as an ideologue," said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst and former Ohioan who characterized the senator, a former Bush administration budget official who was on Mitt Romney's short list for vice president, as "an insider politician." "This is probably just the tip of the spear; we're going to see more of this," said Kondik, at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "He's the first Republican senator who supports gay marriage, and he certainly won't be the last....
More than 140 students at the University of Virginia School of Medicine now know where they will continue their training as residents. Friday was "Match Day," when students across the country find out what hospital they have been paired with for the next few years.
Sean Gobin, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, is one of the founders of a non-profit called Warrior Hike, which raises money for veterans. Last year, he and fellow master’s degree student Mark Silvers, a former Marine and co-founder of Warrior Hike, walked the entire Appalachian Trail.
Norah Mastrandea, 7, left her mark on Brownsville Elementary School's multipurpose room Saturday. In thick, black strokes, she affixed her name: N-O-r-A-h, to a ceiling so high it would take five N-O-r-A-h's stacked head-to-tippy toe to reach the top. How Jim Miller – a former University of Virginia basketball player, magician and investment adviser – got the card to stick to the ceiling remains a mystery. But at the end of a surprise party thrown in her honor, the girl of the hour gave his show a big thumbs up.
“Within Virginia, it’s not harder to be admitted from region to region,” said Jeannine Lalonde, in her Notes from Peabody UVa admissions blog. “People in densely populated areas tend to worry about this the most.” It may or may not be more difficult to be admitted to UVa from northern Virginia, but for whatever reason, the percent of Commonwealth students attending UVa from this area appears somewhat controlled and has remained relatively flat despite huge growth in the region’s overall population.
We’ve neglected great professors of English literature in the Power Line Best 100 Professors roster so far, but our first selection in the field, Paul Cantor, the Clifton Walker Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is so intellectually peripatetic that it risks an injustice to call him merely an “English professor.”