Jack and Carol Weber are a husband and wife team who teach executive education programs on leadership and strategic change management at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. They have developed many executive development programs, including Leadership for Extraordinary Performance, which was named No. 1 in 2006 among open-enrollment programs in the world by the Financial Times for its faculty and course design. In their experience, leadership is increasingly about collaboration across all levels of the organization and conversations, not just among supervisors and subordinat...
...Increasingly, large, complex companies such as LandAmerica are partnering with business schools to adapt traditional subjects such as communications, finance and change management to their corporate culture and management style. ...As with open-enrollment executive education programs, companies gain access to outside expertise that enables workers to upgrade their skills and knowledge of industry practices. A customized program, however, adds an in-depth conversation about day-to-day issues that managers face. ...This ability to offer company-specific learning was a big reason why AES Corp....
Supreme Court Leaves Affirmative-Action Precedents Intact in Striking Down School-Integration Plans
Chronicle of Higher Education / June 29
Despite striking down two voluntary school-integration plans in a 5-to-4 ruling on Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court left solidly intact its precedents dealing with affirmative action in higher education.
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Mixed Messages on Affirmative Action
Inside Higher Ed / June 29
But as lawyers spent more time with the decision, many said its message to higher education was not a clear endorsement of affirmative action as practiced by many ...
Angela C. Huang
Recent Darden graduate who now works as an associate for the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton's office in Cleveland
The Professor Is A Headhunter
BusinessWeek / July 9
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_28/b4042055.htm
Robert L. Mahoney
1992 graduate of Darden School of Business
Northwest Pipe Company Appoints Robert Mahoney to Lead Tubular Products
Market Wire Via Comtex News Network / June 28
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Tom Shadyac
Graduate who directed the film "Evan Almighty"
They'll Listen to 'Almighty' Dollars
Charl...
Edward L. Ayers
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences who becomes president of the University of Richmond on Sunday
Ayers Says His First Priority Is to Listen / University of Richmond's New President
Richmond Times-Dispatch / June 29
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin
A professor of law and history
Divided Court Rejects Using Race to Classify Students / Ruling May Call into Question Roanoke's Attendance Zones
Roanoke (VA) Times / June 29
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/122531
John T. Casteen III
President of the University
Numbers Out On UVA's Economic Impact
WCAV CBS-1...
Study Shows How U.Va. Affects Local and State Economies
Biomedical Engineer Wins Coveted CAREER Grant
Virginia Finishes 13th In Directors' Cup Rankings
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...Former Virginia basketball player Jason Cain already has several offers to play in German professional leagues, according to his agent, Tyler Glass. Cain, who, as expected, was not selected in Thursday night's NBA Draft, averaged 6.8 points and 6.3 rebounds for Virginia this past season
UVa had more All-America distance runners this year than the last 16 years combined. No less than seven individuals earned the honor, with Stephanie Garcia putting up the biggest performance as she scored a blue ribbon in the steeplechase at the NCAA Championships.
...in 1957, with head basketball coaches from UVA, VMI, and W&L, [former UVA athletic director Gene] Corrigan founded Camp Wahoo, a two-week camp devoted to traditional camp activities like snipe hunts, singing songs, and all manner of athletics. ... Bones McKinney, a former NBA standout with the Boston Celtics, who was head basketball coach at Wake Forest. In 1960, he came to Corrigan and his partners with what was, at the time, a revolutionary idea. ... Camp Wahoo added a week-long basketball camp to its season. Immediately, Corrigan says, they knew they had tapped into something big, and s...
Researchers at the University of Virginia (UVa) Health System have discovered a way to transfer genes, which they hope will restore hearing, into diseased tissue of the human inner ear. This important step brings scientists closer to curing genetic or acquired hearing loss (Gene Therapy Online, June 14, 2007).
Charlottesville is warning motorists that three municipal projects may affect traffic in July. The stretch of Emmet Street between Stadium Road and the McCormick Road overpass will be affected by steam tunnel and duct bank work until July 15. One lane of traffic in each direction will remain open.
GE Fanuc Automation recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the joint venture between General Electric and Fanuc Ltd. of Japan at the joint ventures' headquarters in Charlottesville, Va. ...As part of the commemoration, the joint venture announced it was providing donations to the University of Virginia's Engineering and Applied Sciences Department, and to the United Way for the establishment of a program to mentor students in science and technology. The company valued the gift at approximately $80,000.
A charity hockey match Saturday at the Charlottesville Ice Park will raise money for cancer treatment research. The Cure Cup - in which the Sperry Marine Hockey Team will face the Richmond Hockey Fights Cancer Team - will benefit the Patients and Friends Research Fund at the University of Virginia Healthy System.
Former Cavalier guard J.R. Reynolds was not picked in Thursday's 2007 NBA draft. Reynolds is now an unrestricted free agent. Reynolds and his agent will contact different NBA teams and look for opportunities to tryout for open spots.
Nearly half of the Charlottesville area's employers are planning to hire new workers in the next three months, according to a survey by Manpower Inc. ... Richmond and Harrisonburg were the only Virginia cities with equally strong hiring forecasts. ...The University of Virginia and the UVa Medical Center act as engines of growth for the region, Mezger said. According to UVa spokeswoman Carol Wood, the school employs about 8,500 people and the hospital has 5,000 employees. Additionally, 6,000 people are student or hourly workers.
University of Virginia officials today unveiled their first study in 17 years detailing the far-reaching economic might of the school. Conducted by senior economists at UVa's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, the study details to the dollar the impact of University of Virginia as the region's largest employer and the significance of student and visitor spending -- which topped $1 billion in 2005 -- on the local economy. Student spending alone in the Charlottesville area totaled $211.9 million for the study year. ... In '05, UVa brought in $456 million in out-of-state grants, giving and ...