In response to more awareness about the impact of poverty and trying to get all types of students from all walks of life to apply to college, there are a number of schools that have completely eliminated loans for students whose parents make under $40,000, this is also known as "free tuition." These schools include Princeton University (which has eliminated loans for all students), Rice University, UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Virginia, and the University of Pennsylvania.
University of Virginia students' reception of state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli contrasted favorably with those given controversial speakers at some other campuses.
Richard Kahlenberg, editor of a new book unabashedly titled "Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions."
On the home front, Kahlenberg identifies UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State and Duke as ready practitioners. ... Similarly, in 2002, 91 percent of the legacy early admits at the University of Virginia were white; 1.6 percent were black and 0.5 percent were Hispanic. A leg up, once again, for the well-positioned.
College and university staff and administration are by far the highest earners on the state payroll, according to a list of state salaries obtained by the Richmond Times-Dispatch using Virginia's Freedom of Information laws.
University of Virginia students were whipping up batter and flipping some hot cakes Saturday morning to raise money for Parkinson's disease research. The fundraiser was held on the lawn at UVA Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Members of a University of Virginia fraternity spent their Saturday sprucing up Yancey Elementary School in Albemarle County. Alpha Phi Omega is UVA's only co-ed service-oriented fraternity.
Charlottesville police are looking into an attack on a woman waiting for a ride early Saturday near Rugby Road, the latest in a string of crimes in the University of Virginia area. According to authorities, the woman had called UVa's SafeRide program for a ride around 3 a.m. Someone grabbed her from behind as she was walking on Barracks Road near Rugby, police said, but she was able to fight him off.
Sunday marks the one year anniversary of Morgan Harrington's tragic disappearance. The University of Virginia took time to remember and pay tribute to Harrington at the last place she was seen by anyone.
This week the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs published the recommendations resulting from last fall's David R. Goode National Transportation Policy Conference.
On Monday, the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute and the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs will share their findings on the ruling's effect on campaign financing, Michael Malbin, executive director said.
A bipartisan panel of transportation experts assembled by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and headed by former Transportation secretaries Norman Mineta and Sam Skinner just reported that the nation needs to spend $134 billion to $262 billion a year for 25 years to make its roads, rail systems and air transport world class.
University of Virginia students waking up to the smell of breakfast on Saturday as members of UVa's "Team Fox" serve up pancakes for a purpose. The annual "Pancakes for Parkinson's" breakfast on Grounds aims to raise awareness about Parkinson's disease.
In his Wall Street Journal op-ed, psychology professor Jonathan Haidt said,
"Because a generalized love of liberty doesn't distinguish tea partiers from other Americans, liberals have been free to speculate on the "real" motives behind the movement. ... But the passion of the tea-party movement is, in fact, a moral passion. It can be summarized in one word: not liberty, but karma."
Allison Pugh, assistant professor of sociology, and her research are the subject of a story in the Australian.
"There is a fair amount of research on job insecurity and the decline of the career and how we handle that, but not much on non-work consequences, on how insecurity at work shapes how we feel about home," says Pugh, who is on a one-year fellowship with the University of Sydney’s US Studies Centre. "I am trying to get these two unsettled spheres into the same analytical box."
After earning his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Richmond and his master's in materials science engineering from the University of Virginia -- and after a brief stint in the NFL -- he joined NASA in 1989.
Dana Robbins Schneider
1999 alumna of the College of Arts & Sciences and senior manager for projects at Jones Lang LaSalle
Rita Dove
Commonwealth Professor of English and poet
AMHA hosts street-naming ceremony in honor of civil rights activist, poet-educator
Akron.com / Oct. 14
Harry Harding
Dean of Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and a top China specialist
Interview: Scholar accuses U.S. of hypocrisy on exchange rates
Xinhua News Agency / Oct. 15
Matthias Hild
Assistant professor at the Darden School of Business
L.A. Unified to issue its own 'value-added' ratings of district schools
CaliforniaWatch (blog) / Oct. 15
Kathryn Laughan
Nursing professor and domestic violence specialist
Woman U...
Vikram K. Jaswal, of the University of Virginia and his students, A. Carrington Croft, Alison R. Setia, and Caitlin A. Cole, asked whether three-year-olds are more trusting of information they are told than the same information conveyed to them without words.