...Not surprisingly, schools where students are invested and involved in implementing the honor code tend to take cheating more seriously, said Rutgers' McCabe. Indeed, Eric Schreiber, a second-year MBA student who serves as a representative for the University of Virginia's Honor Committee, said he believes it is important for students to have a grasp of how frequently cheating occurs at the business school. He will often refer to recent honor code violations during briefing sessions for incoming students, he said. It is helpful to have this data on hand. "This way they know that our honor cod...
The University of Virginia wants to be known for a color other than blue or orange - green, for the work by administrators, faculty and students to help create a sustainable future. 'A Greener Grounds,' a community briefing held Thursday, featured presentations and exhibits showcasing the university's commitment to the environment. Many of the initiatives covered during the briefing already have been implemented, and people are noticing. Since 2004, UVa has won more than 32 sustainability-related awards. Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Leonard W. Sandridge said the Board ...
In the wake of a cheating scandal at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business that involved 34 students, BusinessWeek conducted an e-mail survey of our top 25 ranked graduate business schools in an effort to quantify the level of B-school cheating. We were able to obtain data on incidents of cheating among business school students only from the University of Chicago, the University of Virginia, and Duke. ...The Honor Code Committee at Virginia's Darden School of Business ... gave BusinessWeek records from academic year 1999-2000 to academic year 2003-2004, a period when two business school s...
President Bush Offers a Veto, and Not-So-New Support, for Stem-Cell Research
Chronicle of Higher Education / June 21
As President Bush vetoed a bill on Wednesday that would have loosened his restrictions on stem-cell research, he offered an alternative policy that he said would strengthen the field in an ethical way, but that critics called nothing but spin. The alternative policy, expressed in an executive order, calls for expanding certain types of stem-cell research that do not require the destruction of human embryos. But it proposed no new money for that research, which is already eligib...
Gen. Robert Magnus
Assistant Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps who holds a bachelor's degree in history
BET Founder Robert L. Johnson to Give Strayer University Commencement Address / University's Largest-Ever Graduating Class Also to Hear From U.S. Marine General Robert Magnus
PRNewswire / June 20
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Cheryl Mills
1988 College graduate
Gatekeepers of Hillaryland / The Candidate's Coterie From Her White House Days Is Back Together, All for One and One for All
Washington Post / June 21
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Ralph Sampson
NBA star and Virginia's greatest hoops le...
Tyler Southall
A graduate student at the School of Law
Code Cleanup Time in Dinwiddie
Petersburg (VA) Progress-Index / June 21
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Dr. Daniel Cox
Professor of psychiatric medicine
Driving with ADHD: Manual Transmission
WCAV CBS-19 / June 20
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Doug Grissom
An associate professor of media studies and head of playwriting
Elvis has Entered the New York Building / UVa Playwright Heads Off-Broadway with the King
Charlottesville Daily Progress / June 21
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William Quandt
Professor of politics
Picking Sides in Gaza Not Clear-cut / Hamas May Offer a Better Chance for change
St. Petersburg (FL) Times and Tampa Bay.com / June 21
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BALTIMORE -- When Nick Elsmo departed from Baltimore after playing in the All-America Lacrosse Classic at Loyola College on Saturday, he was left with one indelible thought: The University of Virginia is going to be darn good next year. ... "It was just great to get to know all these guys," Elsmo said. "For Virginia to have nine guys at this game, it just shows that the future should be bright for Virginia lacrosse."
Eleven Staffers Honored for Hard Work and Dedication
Reading to Feature Asian-American Poets
FEST Award Promotes Inventive Heart Research
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/
Turning a Corner / Summer brings attention to changes on the Corner
BOV to create non-voting faculty position
University policy expands gym access
A Rare Find
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Even with more than 100 basketball players sprawled over side-by-side courts in John Paul Jones Arena on Wednesday, it took only a moment to spot Ralph Sampson, Virginia's greatest hoops legend. There he was, the man who put Wahoo basketball on the national map, showing prospects at the NBA Players Association Top 100 Camp how to play good post defense. ...For the legendary Sampson, who is working as a coach/instructor at the weeklong camp (the camp is closed to the public), he believes that Virginia coach Dave Leitao has the program going in the right direction. Sampson believes there's nothi...
No longer children, not fully fledged as teenagers, middle-schoolers must forge identities. ...City school officials plan to work with University of Virginia education professors to evaluate Charlottesville's middle school arrangement.
Virginia Tech today named an interim director of emergency management and announced its police chief will now report to the school's chief operating officer instead of the vice president for administrative services. ... In the release, Hyatt said university police chiefs respond to COOs at several other schools, including the University of Virginia.
State Rep. Jene Vickrey, a Louisburg Republican, will be one of 50 legislators nationwide to participate in the State Legislative Leaders Foundation's Program for Emerging Political Leaders. ... The State Legislative Leaders Foundation and the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia will be the hosts for this year's program from July 16 to 19 on the university's Charlottesville campus.
You're invited to a Thursday briefing on sustainability at the University of Virginia. Efforts at pollution reduction, recycling and other environmentally-friendly practices will be discussed by representatives of various University departments. The briefing will be held in the ballroom of Newcomb Hall from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. You can park for free in the Newcomb Parking Garage.
Psychologists at the University of Virginia have been researching the driving habits of teens with ADHD and, they believe the type of transmission you choose for your child may make the difference in serious driving situations. 'One of the problems with driving and ADHD is they can easily become in-attentive, daydream and not pay attention to what's going on in their driving environment,' said Dr. Daniel Cox, a researcher and doctor in UVA's Department of Psychiatric Medicine. ...Researchers at UVA's Virginia Driving Safety Lab conducted tests on teen boys age 16 to 19, who suffer from ADHD. ....
Back in 2001, when the No Child Left Behind law was being crafted, President Bush wanted students from failing schools to get vouchers to attend private schools. The idea was that this would help the students and put pressure on the schools to improve. But Democrats, fearing that public education would be undermined, hated that idea. So a compromise emerged: Students whose schools repeatedly fell short of performance goals would be eligible for free tutoring, courtesy of federal taxpayers. ...That's not to say tutoring is a bad idea. Watching effective school tutoring - such as the "book buddi...
Some Colleges to Drop Out of U.S. News Rankings
New York Times / June 20
The presidents of dozens of liberal arts colleges have decided to stop participating in the annual college rankings by U.S. News and World Report. The decision was announced Tuesday at the end of an annual meeting of the Annapolis Group, a loose association of liberal arts colleges.
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More Momentum Against 'U.S. News'
Inside Higher Ed / June 20
In the wake of meetings this week of the Annapolis Group - an organization of liberal arts colleges - critics of the U.S. News & World Report college ran...