(Commentary) Shared parenting laws have also been shown to reduce the incidence of divorce. According to the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, “two-thirds of all divorces are initiated by women. (However,) in states where there is a presumption of shared custody with the husband the percentage of women who initiate divorces is much lower.”
“I think both changes in the language are really important and thoughtful changes,” said University of Virginia law Prof. Brandon L. Garrett, who has researched DNA exonerations. He said most states have “broader relief valves” than Virginia for proving wrongful convictions.
A House of Delegates subcommittee will meet at 8 a.m. Thursday to take public comment on whether to reappoint Rector Helen E. Dragas to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors.
The University of Virginia is rewarding its employees who have the best ideas to cut costs. UVA launched a website where employees can submit suggestions to make the university run more efficiently.
Melissa Block talks to University of Virginia law professor Anne Coughlin about the announcement expected Thursday from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta about the removal of the ban on women in combat. Coughlin and her students did the research which inspired a lawsuit filed by two women in the Army Reserves last year, alleging that policies banning women from ground combat units violated constitutional rights.
The debate over the leadership upheaval last June at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville continues to simmer on at least two fronts.
Richard Bonnie, director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, will also appear. Bonnie was a consultant to the Virginia Tech Review Panel and is chairman of the Virginia Commission on Mental Health Law Reform.
"The answer to that is very straightforward: Create a physical fitness standard,” says Anne Coughlin, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, who is spearheading a conference Feb. 1 on women in combat in Washington, D.C.
The lawsuit, filed in Washington, was inspired by a group of students at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville who formed a group called the Molly Pitcher Project, an effort to challenge the government's ground combat exclusion. Anne Coughlin, the professor who taught the course and serves as a sponsor for the project, said she was thrilled by news of Panetta's announcement.
“The refugee program came into public consciousness in a big way because of the drama of the fall of Saigon and the effort to rescue a lot of people who had helped us in Vietnam,” said David Martin, a law professor at the University of Virginia. “But it did build on much smaller programs that had been around before that.”
Lifting the ban on women in combat is a battle a group of University of Virginia students and professors have been fighting for nearly two years. Calling themselves the Molly Pitcher Project, they worked hand in hand with the lawyers who brought the lawsuit against the military's policies.
The accrediting agency that sanctioned the University of Virginia over last summer’s sacking of President Teresa A. Sullivan will send a review team here in early October to decide whether to return the school to full accreditation.
(Commentary) But children cannot develop these abilities without a broad base of knowledge. Asking them to do so is like telling them to build a house with no materials, because skills must be applied to something. This is a signature insight of University of Virginia researcher and self-described liberal E.D. Hirsch. He found that students with broad knowledge in basic subjects such as math, English, history and science understood college-level texts better than their peers who did not focus on real content in school.
(Editorial) State Sen. Creigh Deeds described himself as “floored” when no one appeared at a committee meeting to oppose the confirmation of Helen Dragas’ reappointment to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors. Only Dragas supporters were in attendance. Maybe, just maybe, opponents believed they already had made themselves perfectly clear.
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, in far southwestern Virginia, was put on lockdown for about two hours Wednesday night after a student reported seeing a gunman. The student later told investigators that the incident was a hoax, Virginia State police said.
A 2010 study led by University of Virginia psychologist Judy DeLoache found no evidence that, after viewing a popular word-learning video about 20 times, 15-month-olds could point to a real-world object upon hearing a word they’d been exposed to any better than could children who hadn’t watched the video at all.
Agreement in the field is limited about whether—and how much—individual preparation programs should bear the responsibility of aligning their production of teachers to state or local market needs. “Would we raise this question about English majors? It’s sort of notorious that English majors get jobs waiting tables, … but people still do it because they enjoy it and find it a useful thing to do,” said Jim H. Wyckoff, a professor of education and policy at the University of Virginia. “So I’m a little concerned about treating education differe...
For some brides, the stress of planning a wedding may cause doubts or what is commonly called cold feet. Some brides (and sometimes grooms) need a trained ear to help sort through the anxiety. Jeff Smidt is the chief marketing officer of Bridal Brokerage, a company started by University of Virginia's Darden School of Business students, which buys and resells weddings that are called off. Smidt's new venture, Cold Feet Questions, helps couples cope with pre-wedding anxiety.
World peace, to many, is just an ideal, but Curry School of Education alumna Jung Eun-hee, founder and executive director of a New York-based International Virtual Schooling, believes that the world can be a better place in the future if promoting intercultural exchanges among young people around the world through Internet and technological devices.