A nonprofit group representing trustees and alumni from colleges around the country is seeking an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education into an accreditation agency's decision to put the University of Virginia on warning for its failed attempt to fire its president last summer.
On the campus of the University of Missouri-Columbia, in a spot that’s easily overlooked just outside the chancellor’s home, a worn 9-foot-tall granite obelisk stands 878 miles from where you’d expect to find it. It’s the tombstone of Thomas Jefferson.
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato tweeted that he is "not sure a partisan pep rally helped," but that maybe the purpose was to gather votes from liberal Democrats who are upset with the deal.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said House Republicans may see an advantage in voting on the tax package in the New Year - after the nation has technically gone off the fiscal cliff - so they can claim they voted for tax reductions, not tax hikes.
Dr. Henry Poore remembers the Great Depression and the dignity of low-paid work through memories of his father, who worked 12-hour shifts, six days out of seven -- for $8 per week.
Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, is writing a book titled "Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Take on Corporations." He is troubled by the Justice Department's corporate monitor policy.
After decades of salving the wounds of patients with kidney failure, David Simmons is moved to tears at the thought of caring for his diabetic mother, who raised him and his three siblings on love and not much else in Caroline County. Simmons is a senior clinician in the University of Virginia Health System’s nephrology outpatient unit.
Teresa A. Sullivan's time to give is limited. Still, she gives it. The University of Virginia president supports the local Salvation Army, the Virginia Festival of the Book and the Virginia Film Festival.
A hospital safety ranking recently panned the University of Virginia Medical Center, giving it a much lower grade than its local competitors, but hospital officials say they're constantly working on quality and safety, and making important strides.
Tiki Barber begins the year with a new job and a new life. The former University of Virginia and New York Giants standout will return to broadcasting today as the co-host of a morning show on the new CBS Sports Radio network. It will be his first broadcasting job since NBC parted ways with Barber in 2010.
While some of the working world observes casual Friday, it's Judge Louis Sherman's most difficult day. In Norfolk Circuit Court, where Sherman has presided for the past four years, Fridays are for sentencings.
This project provides keepsake boxes for families of children that die in the hospital. A hand-painted box is given to the parents to be filled with whatever mementos they have—a photo, footprint, lock of hair, etc. Nationwide, the program has provided more than 100,000 boxes free of charge to participating hospitals. PATL’s Memory Boxes are donated to the University of Virginia Health System.
Among The Economist’s top 25 MBA programs, which business schools have the best curriculum, faculty, culture, career center and facilities? And which have the worst? To rank the world’s best business schools, The Economist collects a wealth of data to help answer those questions, including the satisfaction levels of students and recent graduates who are asked to grade their schools on various dimensions. The Economist says a total of 18,712 students and graduates participated in the spring of 2012. U.Va.'s Darden School of Business ranked highly.
The University of Virginia's Larry Sabato has reacted to the fiscal cliff dramatics that played out Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol. He says there are elected officials on both sides of the aisle who deserve some praise.
Four years ago Joseph Riley, a Tennessee high school senior, was accepted at Harvard, Princeton and Yale. The son of a doctor, he didn’t qualify for need-based aid. But he was determined to cover his education costs on his own, he says, as his father and grandfather had done. So he turned down the Ivies and took an all-expenses scholarship at the University of Virginia. He’s now a college senior studying Mandarin and politics.
Some of the most prominent electronic editions of primary texts were conceived at the dawn of digital-humanistic history. This year will mark the 20th anniversaries of the beginning of work on "The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War" and “The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Archive,” both hosted at the University of Virginia – projects that were completed only in 2007 and 2008, respectively.
"The entrepreneur has to go from a control freak to a trusting manager to an emotionally intelligent coach and mentor." -- Ed Hess, professor at University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
(Commentary) But more recently, the role of genetics in behavior has freed itself from such political correctness. University of Virginia psychologist Eric Turkheimer stated that "All human behavioral traits are heritable," that "the empirical facts are in" and that they are "no longer a matter of serious controversy."
Professor Jeremy Adelman has taught a world-history class at Princeton University for several years, but as he led about 60 students through 700 years of history on the ivy-covered campus this past fall, one thing was different: Another 89,000 students tuned into his lectures free of charge via Coursera, an online platform. Those kinds of numbers, and their potential for remaking higher education, have generated plenty of excitement about massive open online courses—dubbed MOOCs. They've also lured venture investors and universities, who have put millions of dollars into companies li...
The collective U.Va. community was named one of the "12 Most Influential Forces in Higher Education in 2012."