As Mr. Becker writes, average tuition for in-state students at public colleges is $7,500 a year. For many families with students at flagship state universities, $7,500 is not all that much money. At the University of Virginia, to take an extreme example, only 8 percent of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, according to U.S. News, which means that only about 8 percent of undergraduates are in the lower half of the income distribution. In the freshman class at the University of Michigan several years ago, more students had parents making at least $200,000 a year than had parents making less tha...
Despite the slight rise in ticket prices, reserved seat and reserved season tickets sold out quickly for a program that advanced to the College World Series in 2009, posted the ACC’s best regular season record a year ago with 23 wins and saw Davenport Field expanded to hold a maximum 4,825 fans. The capacity will remain the same in 2011 thanks to the increased demand.
Oberly is the state’s 39th U.S. attorney in a long line going all the way back to 1789 with George Read II, the son of the signer of the Declaration of Independence. … Oberly was a cut-up at Brandywine High School, a discipline problem with bad grades. His conduct was so out of line, other students called him "Spitball" Oberly. Then he righted himself in college and earned a law degree from the University of Virginia.
His reputation as a resolute defender of the environment that stems from a litany of successful legal actions, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be the special guest speaker for the annual Unity Celebration at Austin Peay State University. … He studied at the London School of Economics and received his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School.
Based on nominations from readers, two special education teachers at Vienna Elementary School receive Teach of the Year accolades. … [Maryellen] DiSilvio graduated from the University of Virginia in 1982 and has been teaching for more than 20 years.
Hannah Pittard, MFA graduate
This year is off to a great start for new novelists - and readers willing to sample unfamiliar names. Hannah Pittard's "The Fates Will Find Their Way" is the third impressive debut I've read in January…
Students at the University of Virginia are bringing new meaning to the importance of eating breakfast. Starting today, Kellogg's Food Away from Home and UVA Dining Services is teaming up for a month to donate cereal to the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.
Brian Balogh
Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor of History
Vitriolic speech in America
Charlottesville Right Now, WINA / Jan. 25
A.E. Dick Howard
Professor of law
Absurd 'Arnold's Law' needs to be terminated
Chicago Tribune (blog) / Jan. 26
Barbara Perry
Senior fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs
Roberts to Lead Delegation of Six Supreme Court Justices at Obama Address
Bloomberg /Jan. 25
Larry Sabato
Commonwealth Professor of Politics and director of the Center for Politics
President Obama's Energy Policy in Question
Fox News (blog) / Jan. 25
Daniel Willingham
Professor of psycho...
In both his tweets and blog posts, Darden Dean Bob Bruner comes across as the quintessential Renaissance Man. Bruner tweets daily, often several times a day, and his messages also show up on his Facebook page.
Bidhan "Bobby" Parmar
Acting assistant professor in the Darden School
Before posting information and photographs on Facebook, remember that in the virtual world, our houses are made of glass. Every piece of data is permanent and stored in a digital archive. More than half of employers cite provocative photographs as the biggest factor in the decision not to hire.
"What we're suggesting is that we have these biases to detect things like snakes and spiders really quickly, and to associate them with things that are yucky or bad, like a fearful voice," developmental psychologist Vanessa LoBue of Rutgers University said in releasing the research. LoBue's co-authors of the study, published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, are David H. Rakison of Carnegie Mellon University and Judy S. DeLoache of the University of Virginia.
The latest 2010 survey of student satisfaction shows Virginia’s Darden School at the top, followed by Chicago’s Booth, MIT’s Sloan School, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and the Harvard Business School. … MBAs, given their age and their work experience, are discerning enough to make valuable judgments about graduate education.
The good news is that to increase enrollment, UVa plans to extend between 200 and 250 additional offers of admission in order to achieve an entering class of about 3,360 first year students—120 more than last year. While UVa is not the only college experiencing a significant rise in the number of applications received this year, few have announced plans to so aggressively expand undergraduate programs.
Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) will deliver the commencement address at the University of Virginia on May 22. U-Va.'s new president, Teresa Sullivan, made the selection from nominations forwarded by students and faculty.
On Tuesday afternoon, people who took part in the visit spoke about it. At the time, Wesley Harris was one of eight African American male students. He dined and walked the grounds with Dr. King and says it was one of the most profound events of his undergraduate career.
Saras Sarasvathy, a professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, set out to determine how expert entrepreneurs think, with the goal of transferring that knowledge to aspiring founders.
Edward G. Lengel
Editor-in-chief of the Papers of George Washington
In the Congressional Prayer Room at the Capitol there is a stained-glass window depicting George Washington on his knees, praying in the snow at Valley Forge. Similar images appeared on a 2-cent stamp in 1928 commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Valley Forge encampment, and on the 13-cent Christmas stamp in 1977. Despite those depictions, it is a story with "dubious origins," writes Edward G. Lengel in "Inventing George Washington," his account of the myths and legends that sprang up to breathe life i...
The speech Martin Luther King Jr. delivered at the University of Virginia on March 25, 1963, was not a pivotal moment in the overall civil rights struggle. However, nearly 50 years later, King’s visit still has people talking about what it means to Charlottesville and UVa.
Dover resident and UNH English Department lecturer Stephanie Harzewski will speak at the Dover Public Library on Tuesday, Feb. 8 at 7p.m. about her new book, Chick Lit and Postfeminism (University of Virginia Press, 2011).
Richard Arum of New York University and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia … found that half of the students surveyed did not take any classes requiring 20 pages of writing in their prior semester, and one-third did not take any courses requiring 40 pages of reading a week. The research has come in for some criticism. But a larger question is: Have colleges, in their efforts to keep graduation rates high and students happy, dumbed down their curriculums? If they have, who is to blame? What should parents and federal taxpayers do?