Andy Fahringer
A graduate student
The Daily Run: A look at local athletes at the U.S. Olympic Trials
The Daily Progress / June 25
Bakary Soumare
A soccer player who was drafted out of U.Va. the in 2007
Report: Union ink defender Soumare
Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia / June 25
Richard Bonnie
A professor of law
Bioethics Symposium Examines 'Doctors, Politics and Conscience'
University of Wisconsin / June 25
Dewey Cornell
Linda K Bunker Professor at the Curry School of Education
Bullying finally taken seriously in many schools
The Daily Progress / June 25
Dotan Oliar and Christopher Jon Sprigman
Professors at the School of Law
Standup comedy and the rise of an informal intellectual property regime
Bloomberg BNA / June 26
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Virginia’s Influence
Virginia Public Radio / June 22
and
Bush planting seeds for presidential pu...
Brandon L. Garrett
The Roy L. and Rosamond Woodruff Morgan Professor of Law
David A. Martin
A professor at the School of Law
In the history of the University of Virginia few, if any, of its entering presidents have inspired as much scorn and trepidation from the student body as Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. The former Virginia governor was well known for his less than enthusiastic views on the school’s fraternities. During his governorship from 1942 to 1946, he had voiced his opinion that the university’s fraternity houses were “expensive, restricted and ingrown.” When it was announced on March 30, 1947, that Darden had been appointed successor to John Lloyd Newcomb, fraternity houses were thrown into an uproar. The ...
Of the 498 chief executive officers listed on the 2012 Fortune 500 list, 46 hold legal degrees. All 46 hold J.D.'s, and Michael I. Roth, of Inter public Group (No. 358 on the Fortune list), is the only CEO to also have earned a legal master's (LL.M.) degree. (Two chief executive officers hold CEO positions at multiple Fortune 500 companies, which is why there are 498 rather than 500.) Roth's LL.M. is from New York University's School of Law, and he holds a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. Those were two of the 24 law schools that granted degrees to the Fortune 500 CEOs. Eight of the ...
Job hunting is tough for many recent college graduates -- including want-to-be-lawyers. Members of the 2011 class of American Bar Association accredited schools had only a slightly better than a 50 percent chance of finding a potential long-term job within nine months of earning their degree, reports the Wall Street Journal. … Another point the newspaper confirmed with its review, the better a school's brand name, the better the job-hunting results. Traditional law school powerhouses such as the University of Virginia and Harvard University see at least 90 percent of their graduates find legal...
An earthen spiral extending into the Great Salt Lake, a person wearing a bowler hat and a sign that said “Oy,” and a ton of wide-open spaces were the hallmarks of a group of University of Virginia students’ summer journey this year. “It was really a road trip for people to make photography,” said professor William Wylie, who led the trip. It wasn’t exactly Kerouac. Students said the low-key, easy-going approach they took to a summer photography class yielded a newfound appreciation for dramatic landscapes and a fondness for avocadoes.
Trustees for the foundation that supports the University of Virginia's college of arts and sciences have joined the call for the reinstatement of ousted President Teresa Sullivan. A conference call Sunday of more than 50 current and former trustees found overwhelming consensus for Sullivan's return, Peter Brundage, president of the College Foundation, and Jeff Nuechterlein, chairman of the College Foundation Emeritus Society, said in a memorandum to the board of visitors.
When I was preparing to leave a vice presidency at Boston University to become president of the University of Hartford in 1977, John Silber, the legendary BU president, dropped by to give me a farewell word of advice. "When you get to Connecticut, the first thing to find out is who really does the hiring and firing," he told me. Silber was experienced in these matters. As dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, he had crossed the powerful Board of Regents chairman, Frank C. Erwin Jr. In 1970, when Silber would not accede to his will, Erwin told him, "Well...
The trustees of the Darden School Foundation endorse the statement to the Board of Visitors from the University of Virginia deans, including Darden's Bob Bruner, dated 21 June 2012, in which they call for the reinstatement of Teresa Sullivan as president of the University and a collaborative and progressive approach to meeting the challenges of the University. We do not make this suggestion lightly. We are aware of both the dedication and responsibility that the Board of Visitors has for the University and the fact that the Board members have acted in what they believe is in the best interest ...
Here at the University of Virginia, we have been goingthrough a traumatic couple of weeks. As a result of a reckless and radical move by the Board of Visitors to drive President Teresa Sullivan from her office, we have lost financial support, students, and talented colleagues. The board has damaged the reputation of this great institution. So we on the faculty are fighting to restore the reputation.
The University of Virginia has taken the spotlight making headlines all over the country. Backlash from the decision to oust President Teresa Sullivan by the Board of Visitors has grabbed the attention of many. The question now raised is if the recent actions by the Board have deterred prospective students and parents. "It was chaotic at first-I heard the President and it was like all these issues but really I know that the school will make the right decision and the Board will collaborate and decide correctly," said Liza Moore, a prospective student.
Recent events at the University of Virginia following the decision of the institution's governing board to remove its president afteronly two years in office have brought to light some questionable claims that have been animating educational reformers lately. In a statement justifying the Board of Visitors’ decision, the Board’s rector, Helen Dragas, asserted that U.Va.’s president, Terry Sullivan, was unwilling to make the kinds of changes necessary at a time when universities like Virginia are facing an “existential threat.” The times, Dragas claimed, call for a bold leader willing to impose...
There is much hope on the University of Virginia campus that the painful and unnecessary two-week drama over the surprise ouster of the popular president, Teresa Sullivan, will end Tuesday with her reinstatement. Every major constituency in the university community has backed her and professors have been talking about “when” she gets her job back rather than “if.” Reinstatement could happen when the Board of Visitors meets Tuesday, under a threat from Gov. Bob McDonnell that panel members will be dismissed if they don’t resolve Sullivan’s status right away and — come to a “unified” decision. T...
The following was sent Monday morning to UVa faculty from George Cohen, chair of the Faculty Senate: Dear Colleagues, President Sullivan's reinstatement is our focus for the next 36 hours. We pledge to follow her example of dignity and grace in the face of crisis, and we ask you to do the same. While the outcome of tomorrow's Board meeting is by no means certain, we want to allow members of the Board the ability to make a thoughtful and well-reasoned decision. It will be the most important vote they will cast during their service to our great University.
The University of Virginia Faculty Senate has formally demanded that the school’s governing board reinstate President Teresa Sullivan. A number of other faculty groups, including deans of nearly every school, have echoed that demand in passionate letters and speeches on the steps of the iconic Rotunda. Hundreds of students have joined in, and the Cavalier Daily student newspaper published an editorial last week stating that the community is certainly behind Sullivan being reinstated, “and if the pieces come in place, so are we.”
Early in her tenure as University of Virginia president, Teresa Sullivan sat down with her vice presidents and made this request: Hang with me. If they would stay in their jobs for 18 months, time for Sullivan to prove herself to them, she would give them at least that long to prove themselves to her. All of them stayed. But when the honeymoon was over, Sullivan's job was on the line. Sullivan arrived at Virginia's insular state flagship two years ago as the ultimate outsider. And she worked her way in,building a support network and winning allies across the length and width of the Grounds — f...
The tumult at the University of Virginia — with the sudden ouster of President Teresa Sullivan on June 10, and the widespread anticipation that she will be reinstated on Tuesday — reflects a low-grade panic now spreading through much of public higher education. “Is it possible to be a successful president of a public university?” mused Mark G. Yudof, the president of the University of California. “I’m not willing to say these jobs are impossible, but these are very difficult times. You want to be more efficient, but you don’t want to make changes so fast that you endanger academic values and t...
A new program called Shuti or (Sleep Healthy Using the Internet) offers online therapy for people tossing and turning all night. Developed at the University of Virginia, researchers say one group of people in particular can benefit from this program: cancer survivors. Survivors are up to three times as likely to suffer from insomnia. "It may be as much as 60 to 70 percent of cancer survivors that are having some kind of sleep difficulty and that sleep difficulty either being caused or exacerbated by the cancer original diagnosis or treatment," said Dr. Lee Ritterband, Associate Professor at UV...