NO matter what the University of Virginia’s governing board decides today, when it is scheduled to determine the fate of the university’s ousted president, Teresa A. Sullivan, the intense interest in the case shows how much anxiety surrounds the future of higher education — especially the question of whether university leaders are moving too slowly to position their schools for a rapidly changing world (as some of Ms. Sullivan’s critics have suggested of her). There is good reason for the anxiety. Setting aside the specifics of the Virginia drama, university leaders desperately need to transfo...
The University of Virginia's archivists are working overtime to preserve a record of President Teresa Sullivan's ouster and the grassroots battle against the UVA Board of Visitors. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library contains millions of documents detailing the university's nearly 200-year-old story. "The point of gathering material is so it can be a research archive in the future," said UVA Digital Archivist Gretchen Gueguen.
Dr. David Karaffa
Who received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from University of Virginia
Neurologist David Karaffa Joins Florida Hospital Flagler as Staff ...
FlaglerLive.com / June 22
Sarah Kirkwood
A volleyball player who was a four-time All-ACC performer and the league's Freshman of the Year in 2004
40 greats who blossomed in the 40 years of Title IX
Tbo.com / June 23
Matt Miller
Who graduated from U.Va.
Local man competes in triathlon after tragic accident
6abc.com / June 23
Gary Gallagher
Cavaliers' Distinguished Teaching Professor and Nau Professor in the Corcoran Department of History
'Watershed' Seven Days Battles changed course of Civil War
Richmond Times Dispatch / June 23
Mikel Gray
A nurse practioner and faculty member in the Department of Urology
HPV Vaccine: Is for men too!
Ivanhoe / June 25
Kyle Kondik
A political analyst at the Center for Politics
Portman for veep becoming more and more likely
91.7 WVXU News / June 24
Larry Sabato
Director of the Center for Politics
Jeb Bush: Party elder statesman or 2016 candidate?
Moneycontrol.com / June 23
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James Ceaser
A professor of politics and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
Just like last year about this time, recruiting is really picking up for head coach Mike London and the UVA football program as spring turns to summer. The Cavaliers have 13 verbal commitments for the class of 2013. Corner back Kirk Garner, who committed Friday, joins Varina High School corner back Tim Harris as the four-star recruits in the class according to Rivals. Rivals ranks ten of the eleven other rising seniors in the class as three-star prospects.
Dave Leitao must have hated it. After a three-hour car trip, the former University of Virginia men's basketball coach had just arrived at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro, N.C. … But thanks to Rich Murray, and most likely only because of Rich Murray, Leitao not only agreed to the interview, but patiently answered questions for 15 minutes. My ACC Nation podcast partner, Chris Graham, and I were already big fans of Murray. The Leitao interview just reinforced our opinion that Murray wasn't only a tremendously nice guy, but the best at what he did, namely serving as U.Va.'s sports information d...
Poor academic scores could create a very different kind of madness in March. A record 10 men's basketball teams, including three-time national champion Connecticut, will be banned from next season's NCAA tournament because of subpar work in the classroom. UConn becomes the first BCS school to face a post season ban in either of the two most prominent college sports based solely on the annual Academic Progress Rate scores, which were released Wednesday by the NCAA. Each of the schools fell below the mandated cutline of 900 on their four-year scores. The APR measures the classroom performance of...
Teens who have arguments with their moms are better placed to resist peer pressure and avoid drinks or drugs, says a new study. Arguing actually gives them confidence and negotiating skills, the study said. Scientists from the University of Virginia, US, observed and made audio andvideo recordings of 150 13-year-olds arguing with their mothers. They then quizzed them three years later about their lives and experiences with drugs and alcohol, the journal Child Development reports.
Historical sources describe the menorah looted by the Romans when they destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem in A.D. 70 as made of gold, as God instructed Moses in Exodus. … The spectrometric readings will also be used to fine-tune “Rome Reborn,” a 3-D model of ancient Rome developed by Bernard Frischer, a professor of art history and classics at the University of Virginia. “The Arch of Titus will be the first monument in ‘Rome Reborn’ that will have full restored color,” said Dr. Frischer, who was part of the team working on the monument. “But we still have another 10,000 buildings to col...
The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), working in conjunction with The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business, will offer a Manager-Level Education Program on September 9-14, 2012. The GBTA Academy originally launched the course in March of 2012 with The University of Virginia’s Darden School Of Business, where the program will be offered again in the Spring of 2013. Both schools are ranked within the top 20 business schools in the country according to Forbes and U.S. News.
A Wall Street Journal analysis of recent employment figures released by the American Bar Association reveals that just 55 percent of the law school class of 2011 found full-time, long-term jobs that require a law degree nine months after graduation. Previously the ABA would disclose only the number of new lawyers that were employed in the nine-month time frame, a group that might include graduates employed in another field like computer science or sandwich artistry where the degree is nothing but a paperweight. More grim figures from the ABA's dossier on 2011 grads: Only about 8% of 2011 gradu...
A panel of political prognosticators — including journalists and a former congressman — convened at the state Capitol on Friday to talk about presidential elections past and present and agreed on something: Virginia could be the key in 2012. "It's increasingly the new bellwether. It's the new Ohio," said Politico senior reporter Jonathan Martin at the University of Virginia Center for Politics' 14th annual Virginia Political History Project. "It's hard to see a path for President Obama to win back the presidency if he doesn't carry Virginia," Martin added.
This year’s tour of the Big Apple Circus marks the end of an era — the final performances with the circus of a feisty character called Grandma, its best-known clown. The circus will be at Ninigret Park from Saturday through July 8. The character has been portrayed for 25 years by Barry Lubin — who created Grandma and owns the rights — and in recent years also by Mark Gindick, who will be in Charlestown. Grandma’s departure from Big Apple coincides with new beginnings for both performers. … Lubin will embark on another adventure in August: he will be an instructor in the University of Virginia’...
Students participating in the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership's College Leaders Program at the University of Virginia presented projects on Friday. The four-week program offers a curriculum based on public service and civic engagement to 25 college students statewide. In years past, some of the students' projects led to legislation that has passed the General Assembly.
The nation's public flagship universities in recent months have seen a remarkable exodus of presidents — some by choice, most not — revealing a sometimes fractious relationship between campus leaders and the governing boards they answer to. Since November, presidents of Oregon State, Pennsylvania State and Louisiana State universities have been fired. At the University of Illinois, two presidents have resigned under fire within the last three years. Last June, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's chancellor voluntarily stepped down after a controversial proposal failed that would have given h...
While the leadership limbo continues at the University of Virginia, the verdict from students on the ouster of President Teresa Sullivan is clear: They feel angry, bewildered and betrayed. Hannah Patrick of Front Royal, who just finished her first year at the university, returned here for a Wednesday night vigil at the invitation of an instructor. She doesn’t know Sullivan personally. She didn’t even know until recently that the university has a governing board that wields so much power. But she quickly gets worked up when talking about what has happened.
Whenever there is a controversy at the University of Virginia — such as the current one over the abrupt removal of president Teresa Sullivan — the natural reflex is to ask: What would the school’s founder, Thomas Jefferson, think? That question is particularly apt in this case because Jefferson had specific ideas about how the university, which he started in 1819, would be governed. And, as head of the first board governing the school, he held in effect the same position as Rector Helen E. Dragas, who has led the effort to oust Sullivan. But the similarities stop there.
Governor Bob McDonnell Friday issued the following statement on the University of Virginia presidency. Statement of Governor Bob McDonnell: "For nearly 200 years, UVA has trained America's leaders. The standards of excellence and conduct there have been a model for the nation since Thomas Jefferson defined them in 1819.
What's the difference between a risk and a gamble? You can rescue yourself from a risk. If a gamble goes wrong, the consequences are irrevocable. I first learned this distinction from a battalion commander who had served several tours in Afghanistan. I interviewed him for a series of articles I wrote about risk. The lesson is now playing out in the pitched battle over the firing of Teresa Sullivan, the University of Virginia's president, whose pursuers completely ignored this distinction even though they imagined themselves to be brave risk-takers.