It's never been as expensive to go to college as it is right now. According to a new study, less state and federal money, plus rising tuition costs, put college at a record high. Virginia colleges are among the most expensive in the country. Public colleges here cost as much as some private universities. But Governor McDonnell has a plan and money in place to change that over the next year.
From Dr. Charles J. Holden, a historian at St. Mary’s College in Maryland: Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s recent comments on player safety after a University of Virginia crowd stormed the court to celebrate defeating Duke is actually the latest installment of a century-long discussion over crowd control at collegiate athletic events.
State and local financing for higher education declined 7 percent in fiscal 2012, to $81.2 billion, according to the annual report of the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, and per-student support dropped 9 percent from the previous year, to $5,896, in constant dollars, the lowest level in at least 25 years.
Tuition at public colleges jumped last year by a record amount as state governments slashed school funding, the latest sign of strain in the U.S. higher-education sector.
A report in the Washington Post suggests that University of Virginia Rector Helen Dragas is again at odds with the university’s president, and the faculty is taking sides.
A lot of people believe that the “learning pyramid” that lists learning scenarios and average student retention rates is reliable. Here’s cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham to explain why it isn’t. Willingham is professor and director of graduate studies in psychology at the University of Virginia and author of “Why Don’t Students Like School?” His newly published book is “When Can You Trust The Experts? How to tell good science from bad in education.”
Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) can’t say he wasn’t warned. Last summer Helen Dragas, the rector of the University of Virginia’s governing Board of Visitors, sparked an 18-day leadership crisis at the elite school when she pushed out the popular U-Va. president, Teresa Sullivan, and then was forced to reinstate her after a campus rebellion.
In her new book, Mary Beth Keane illuminates the backstory of the much-maligned Mary Mallon.
If there’s anything that’s as intimidating as buying a house or apartment, it’s moving into it and making it feel like it belongs to you. If that doesn’t seem intimidating to you, then you’re really not using your imagination. We spoke with Susan Doban, the founder/CEO of Doban Architecture and co-founder of Think Fabricate, and Jason Gorsline, the design director of Doban Architecture and co-founder of Think Fabricate, so that we could find out what they think everyone should keep in mind when designing and furnishing the interior of a new home.
Psychologists have launched a new organization to encourage openness and improve the reliability of findings in their own field and beyond.
As the conclave of cardinals deliberates on the next pope, Poland is calling for a more modern pope to take the helm in the 21st century. Crystal Park spoke with Dr. Piotr Kosicki, associate director at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian studies at the University of Virginia.
The floorboards at North Branch School in Afton shook as students, faculty and parents danced the meringue, clapping and chanting along with the blended rhythms of South America and Africa at last Friday’s World Beat Workshop. The hour-long program, led by drummer Robert Jospé and percussionist Kevin Davis, taught students percussion basics and how African people and culture came to North, South and Central America.
Tina Fey describes her experience at U.Va.: “I went to the University of Virginia. I came from a suburb where everyone was half-Italian, half-Irish, half-Greek, and the University of Virginia was filled with the most really white people I had ever seen – the most beautiful blonde girls with long ponytails and hoop earrings and they all rode horses. I felt like I had gone to Sweden or something. Then I got involved with the drama department and there I found the more oddly-shaped people.”
The Virginia STARTALK Chinese Teacher Academy will offer free Chinese language instruction to local high school students this summer. The Chinese Language and Culture Immersion Program will meet on the University of Virginia’s Grounds.
Big Boi, one-half of Outkast and creator of such fine solo albums as last year’s Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors, has announced a run of tour dates, including an April 20 appearance at U.Va.
While the gun-control debate is hot now, University of Virginia election expert Kyle Kondik expects the debate will cool and gun control will be a footnote in the storyline of 2014.
Computer games have long be heralded as having a potentially deadly effect on American culture, stupefying children and rotting their brains with mindless repetitiveness. Now, Northeastern University is using GPUs – Graphics Processing Units – to help save the world. In a combined effort between Northeastern and the University of Virginia, this GPU technology is now being expanded to the real world in the form of photo recognition. The idea here is that because of the processing power in these GPUs, they have an ability to scan and match photographs at a far faster pace that any ot...
Subtle changes in messaging can have a profound impact on the effectiveness of charitable messages such as calls for blood donations, according to research published March 6 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Eileen Chou from the University of Virginia and co-author Keith Murnighan at Northwestern University.
Whether he ever suits up for the University of Virginia football team is irrelevant. Former Woodberry Forest quarterback Jacob Rainey has moved beyond the horrific injury that resulted in the amputation of most of his right leg in the fall of 2011.