Florida Nixes Early Decision
Inside Higher Ed / April 3
The chain seemed to break in September. That's when the University of Virginia said it planned to end its binding early decision program - an announcement that followed just weeks after similar pledges at Harvard and Princeton Universities. The move was followed by months of quiet, until now. In a decision that officials say has nothing to do with other institutions' actions and everything to do with its expanding applicant pool, Florida is eliminating its binding early admissions program. Instead of giving students an option of October ...
Montina M. Cole
Who received her law degree in 1991 from the School of Law
Schiff Hardin LLP Expands Energy Practice With Key Additions in the Washington, D.C. Office and in Boston
PRNewswire/ April 2
http://tinyurl.com/ytb6gl
Elliott Garber
Received a B.A. degree in biology and religious studies from the University of Virginia
Nation's First Veterinary Student Receives Prestigious NIH Fogarty Fellowship
American Association for the Advancement of Science/EurekAlert / April 2
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-04/tu-nfv040207.php
Edwin L. Harper
Who holds a Ph.D. from the Universit...
Addison Heard
A student in the Darden School
An MBA, On The Family Plan / How B-schools help families relocate-or manage being apart
Business Week / April 9
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_15/b4029091.htm
Maurice Cox
An architecture professor who is working with the Institute of Sustainable Community in Moss Point to help revitalize the city after Hurricane Katrina
Moss Point to Unveil Its Vision of City's Future
The Sun Herald (MS) / April 3
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/17017731.htm?source=syn
Andrea Douglas
Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the University of Virginia Art Museum
Fresh-Picked
Hampton Roads (VA) Port Folio Weekly / April 3
http://www.portfolioweekly.com/Pages/InfoPage.php/iID/2718
Nicole F. Hurd
Who created the College Guides program
Schools Get F...
U.S. Sen. John W. Warner on Monday endorsed a full ban on restaurant smoking in Virginia. "I actually think it would be a wise thing," Warner, R-Alexandria, said during an impromptu news conference after speaking for an hour to University of Virginia professor Larry J. Sabato's class on American politics.
Sen. John Warner on Monday joined a growing list of Republicans questioning whether President Bush should retain Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez amid doubts about the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. "Gonzalez came up, told Congress what he thought had been done, (and) is now in serious question because of the retrieval of a lot of e-mails," Warner said in a lecture to Larry J. Sabato's political science class at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia's groundbreaking College Guides program has been so successful it's going national. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation recently announced it was giving $1 million to each of 10 schools across the country to duplicate U.Va.'s effort to get reluctant, low-income high school students into college. Nicole F. Hurd said she was excited by the expansion of the program she started at U.Va. two years ago. "I think we could be in 20 states by 2010," Hurd said. "I think this is the beginning of a greater partnership between higher education and K-12."
The 26 American universities that are seeking to raise at least $1-billion collected a total of $488.4-million in gifts and pledges during the last month for which they had data available. ... The University of Virginia, $1.173-billion as of February 28 (increase of $41-million in the last month); the goal is $3-billion by 2011.
Addison heard uses an image of his wife and infant son for the background on his laptop. An MBA student at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, Heard thinks about his family constantly. But because he's away at B-school, he has experienced much of his son's first year via phone calls and digital photos. ... As complicated as the Heards' situation seems, it isn't all that rare. In any year, hundreds of couples deal with how to handle the family logistics of going to B-school. Some choose a long-distance relationship, commuting back and forth on weekends and breaks. Others se...
University of Virginia professor Bankole Johnson is looking for cocaine and crack addicts, methamphetamine users and alcoholics. He wants to try to cure your addiction with a pill. ... The drugs are topiramate and ondanse- tron. Johnson, whose specialty is addiction medicine, has been studying their effects on addicts for 10 years.
More Pressure to Protect Men's Teams
Inside Higher Ed / April 2
An organization challenging the way the Education Department enforces Title IX has told James Madison University to either stand with them or face a lawsuit. The threat is the latest fallout from James Madison's September decision to cut 10 teams - a move that has renewed criticism from advocates for men's athletics that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is being used to hurt their teams.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/02/jmu
Redefining Academic Freedom
Inside Higher Ed / April 2
AFT seeks to reshape the debate about a core value by emphasizing issues of job security, or lack thereof, for adjuncts.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/02/adjuncts
Faculty Federation Pushes Legislative Campaign to Increase Share of Full-Time, Tenure-Track Professors
Chronicle of Higher Education / April 2
...The legislative effort, which has been under way for just a couple of months, is called the Faculty and College Excellence campaign, and it constitutes a state-by-state stab at correcting what union leaders call the "sta...
'Hoos Next: U.Va. Offers Admission to Class of 2011
Grad Schools Earn High Marks in Latest U.S. News Rankings
U.Va. Nurses Recognized for Critical Care Excellence
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/
City looks to lower real estate tax
Prof. to use NSF grant to study toxic emissions
Presidential hopeful debates war parallels
Kaine amends Assembly's smoking bill
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/
Frank Armstrong
Who has a bachelor's degree in economics
Investment Advisor Manages $500M
The Miami (FL) Herald / April 2
http://www.miamiherald.com/103/story/58784.html
Susan and Jacob D'Aniello
University of Virginia graduates
When "Doody" Calls, the D'Aniellos Are There
Louisa (VA) Central Virginian / March 29
http://www.thecentralvirginian.com/fluvannews.htm
Joseph C. Dimino
Graduate of the School of Law
Squires, Dimino and Drake Named to Senior Positions; Woods Retiring at Norfolk Southern
Interest!ALERT / March 29
http://interestalert.com/story/03290000aaa01955.prn/siteia/TRANSPOR/tran...
J. Milton Adams
Vice provost for academic programs at the University of Virginia
Advising program set for its external review
UNC Daily Tarheel / April 2
http://tinyurl.com/2xsoge
Daniel Bluestone
Professor of architectural history
War Over a Building That Helped Win One
New York Times / April 1
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/us/01ohio.html
Qian Cai
Director of Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service's Demographics and Workforce section
Mathews Turning Gray - and Fast
Newport News (VA) Daily Press / April 2
http://tinyurl.com/26gdzt
Ruth Ferree
Professor at the Curry School of Educ...
George H.R. Taylor
An AFL-CIO labor leader who helped draft the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970
Obituary: Worker Safety Advocate George Taylor
Washington Post / April 1
http://tinyurl.com/36qz5q
...Using the always-controversial U.S. News college rankings, Jewler mapped the Lafayette [Elementary] kids' high school decisions against the colleges they eventually went to. ...when you bore down into the list, you see almost no meaningful distinctions between the public and private school kids. ...the kids who went to the top state universities--places such as Berkeley, the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia--seemed just as likely to be graduates of public high school as private high school.
...The School of Law remained in the top 10 nationally tied for 10th with Duke University. The Darden School of Business placed 12th, up one spot from last year and the Curry School of Education was ranked 24th.