(By Bruce Holsinger, professor of English) Aside from lingering outrage among students and faculty, one factor drawing out the University of Virginia’s leadership crisis has been the regular surfacing of internal e-mails from key players.
On Friday, John Paul Jones Arena hosted the first Commerce Career Day at the University of Virginia open to all UVA students. UVA students got a chance to show off their professional side and hand off resumes while networking with over 80 organizations.
Prosecutor says he will retry former Virginia death row inmate Justin Wolfe on capital murder charge
A Prince William County man will again face the possibility of a death sentence, the case’s new prosecutor said Friday, dashing hopes of the man’s supporters that a capital murder charge would be dropped after a federal appeals court vacated the original conviction. Wolfe’s attorney, Matthew Engle of the University of Virginia Innocence Project, said in Prince William Circuit Court on Friday that he thought it was “extremely unlikely that this will be able to go forward with capital murder charges.”
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors wrapped day three of its meetings Friday. One of the big items discussed was how much the University is paying members of the faculty.
(By Andrew C. Wicks, a professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and director of Darden’s Olsson Center for Applied Ethics) The big idea: James Bowman of Coopertree Investment Partners is asked to deposit $800,000 into a bank account in hopes of arranging a meeting with a coveted investor in China.
Gerald A. Berlin, former president of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, fought legal battles ranging from censorship of the musical “Hair” to helping author Susanna Kaysen gain access to her psychiatric records for her best-selling memoir, “Girl, Interrupted."
Some are questioning if the Obama administration is too tentative in how they address terrorist activities and if the tone of their statements is more apologetic than forceful. University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato says whatever Obama and Romney are saying today may not matter seven weeks from now on Election Day, especially if the violence subsides quickly. But if the violence spreads or intensifies, Romney may have the advantage.
The Danville-Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce and the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia will host a forum on uranium mining in Virginia on Oct. 2.
In a state that's a must-win for Mitt, a conservative third-party candidate could throw the election to Obama. Former congressman Virgil Goode tells Patricia Murphy why he's running. "If it is a very close election, then Virgil Goode could take enough votes away from Romney to give Virginia’s 13 electoral votes to Obama,” says Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “But notice the ‘if’—it has to be very close.”
By spring, likely more than a year late, the University of Virginia will finally close out its $3 billion capital campaign, an official told the UVa Board of Visitors on Friday.
Those looking to celebrate on that day can stop by the University of Virginia to meet James Monroe and former Chief Justice John Marshall, as interpreted by historical performers.
It's understandable that the birthplace of religious liberty would go the extra mile for parents who, for religious reasons, don't want their children in school. But Virginia is the only state in the nation that offers an exemption from mandatory school attendance - and doesn't require alternate schooling - when a parent and child say attendance violates their religious beliefs. More than 7,000 children in the commonwealth in 2010-11 were granted such a waiver, a study from the University of Virginia's law school found.
In the next month or two, subway and bus riders will find advertising where they have never seen it before: on the face of their MetroCards, always with them and inescapable — at least for that moment they pay their fare. But revenues come with a cost of their own, suggested Siva Vaidhaynathan, the chairman of the media studies department at the University of Virginia.
U.S. News & World Report may still be the 800-pound gorilla of college rankings. But with a formula that rarely changes, the latest edition — out Wednesday — looks pretty much the same as a decade ago, with very few exceptions.
More than 7,000 children in Virginia potentially receive no education? And the state is OK with that? That’s how many children do not go school under a state law allowing education exemptions for religious reasons, according to a new report by the Child Advocacy Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law.
As one of the top five public universities in the country, the University of Virginia is one of the most important public assets of the commonwealth. Yet the men and women, appointed by the governor to the Board of Visitors to oversee its operation, seem to think it’s their own personal playground.
On Wednesday, some 2,300 local folks will sneak out of work to saw, hammer, hoe, dust, paint, tote, carry and do just about anything else that 113 schools and agencies ask of them. Charity officials said the University of Virginia and UVa Health Systems alone provide almost 1,000 volunteers.
Some Virginia children might not be getting any education because of the state’s religious exemption from mandatory school attendance, according to a recent University of Virginia study.
So since expectations can change the performance of kids, how do we get teachers to have the right expectations? Is it possible to change bad expectations? That was the question that brought me to the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, where I met Robert Pianta.
A report released last week by the University of Virginia School of Law acknowledges that most children granted a religious exemption likely attend a private school or are educated at home. But that’s merely speculation. Dramatic growth in the number of exemptions, which have increased 50 percent since 2000, demands that state leaders revisit the outdated law.