As the National Collegiate Athletic Association finished its annual convention Monday, supporters of a plan that would have required colleges to create campus athletic boards suffered a setback. The proposal, initiated by the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics, a faculty group, was defeated by the Division I Management Council over the weekend. The coalition intended for the boards to set athletics policies on their campuses, but the council was concerned about the accountability of such boards and the one-size-fits-all prescription.
With money, diligence, and provocative behavior, the Campus Leadership Program has helped conservative groups proliferate
If departments really wanted to help would-be graduate students find a good place to earn a Ph.D., they would publish a new set of rankings: on the crotchetiness of each faculty member. So said Timothy Burke, an associate professor of history at Swarthmore College, in a discussion of how departments could be more transparent about the experience of graduate students.
Academic Analytics, a company that sells colleges data that can be used to compare faculty productivity, has released data in various disciplines for 2005. The company's approach has been praised by some experts for moving beyond standard measures, but others have criticized both the methodology and the proprietary nature of some information.
As more studies and panels of experts detail the perceived downward spiral of America's competitiveness in science, the new edition of the biennial report, "Professional Women and Minorities," finds a slice of good news over the long term. While women and members of minority groups still lag behind white men in education and employment in science and engineering, both groups have been closing this gap over the last 40 years.
A new paper on outcomes of graduate education in economics finds "that there is not an easily recognizable star profile or single path to success for an economics graduate student."
A section of the American Bar Association has suffered another setback in its efforts to retain the authority to accredit the nation's law schools while pushing them to pursue diversity. The general counsel of the U.S. Department of Education has announced that it will appeal a committee's decision to let the accreditor's diversity requirements stand.
This year will be a relatively stable one for colleges and universities, says Moody's Investors Service, the bond-rating agency, but storm clouds are gathering for colleges with large amounts of debt, in highly competitive battles for students, or in areas of declining population.
If your skin tends to become dry, irritated, scaly or itchy, here are suggestions from the University of Virginia Health System on how to keep it from drying out this winter: Take fewer baths, and don't use water that's too hot. Apply moisturizer or cream throughout the day. Use gentle products. Stay away from harsh soaps, detergents and other products that may dry the skin. Don't rub or scratch your skin, as it will only make symptoms worsen. If your skin begins to look scaly, try applying a salicylic acid cream or ointment.
Tiki and Ronde Barber
Graduates of the McIntire School of Commerce and standout players in the NFL
Barber bows out after Giants come up short in playoffs
Reuters / January 8
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010800063.html
Mondy Beller
Graduate of the College
SHOP.COM Names Mondy Beller Senior Vice President of Marketing
Business Wire / January 8
http://tinyurl.com/ycj6zs
Linda Fairstein
Graduate of the School of Law
The Novel Lawyer / Former Prosecutor Linda Fairstein Pens 9th Fiction Book
Greenwich (Conn.) Time / January 8
http://www.greenwichtime.com/f...
Dr. Arthur Garson Jr.
Dean of the School of Medicine
Heart of the Uninsured
Health Affairs / January 2007
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/26/1/227
Maya Jasanoff
Assistant professor of history
Top Young Historians: Maya Jasanoff
History News Network / January 7
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/33709.html
David Martin
Law professor and former top immigration official
High Re-Arrest Rate for Illegal Immigrants / New Findings Come as U.S. Is Struggling to Deport Criminals.
McClatchy News Service / January 9
http://www.sacbee.com/111/v-print/story/104786.html
Ed Murphy
Professor...
Lt. Gov. William T. Bolling told a University of Virginia politics class Monday that he sees no chance the General Assembly will approve the package of transportation tax increases proposed last week by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine. "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result," Bolling said to three dozen students in the January term class taught by Larry J. Sabato, director of UVa's Center for Politics. He reminded the students that the House of Delegates held firmly against transportation tax increases for nine months last year.
[...] 'Most women don't recognize their pregnancy until about seven weeks, so there could be a time period where she's drinking and not realizing she's pregnant and doing dramatic damage to the fetus,' said Karen Ingersoll, a University of Virginia Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Ingersoll and her colleagues [studied] a fairly new counseling technique called Motivational Interviewing and found it prompted women to scale back risky drinking and use more effective contraception.
There were 60 reported cases of the mumps in Charlottesville and many of those were at the University of Virginia. Nineteen of those cases were confirmed. Health officials say the CDC has found no connection between this strain of mumps and an Iowa outbreak, but they're now looking at a connection to an outbreak in the UK. There have been no recent cases of the mumps in Charlottesville and if it stays that way, health officials say the outbreak will be declared over.
[...] As for other states, residents of Mr. Jefferson's commonwealth can consider themselves twice blessed. Both the College of William and Mary (number three on our list) and the University of Virginia (number four) draw top students who return in large numbers after freshman year and post impressive four- and six-year graduation rates. Both schools offer generous aid to in-state applicants with need.
'Infinite Significance': Indian Art Exhibit Opens Wednesday
Teaching Workshop to Examine Classroom Discussion, Technology
Exhibit Exploring Images of Women in African Art Opens Friday
7:00pm on WMRA-FM 103.5 Harrisonburg
'Intelligent Design' is the idea that the universe and human life are so complex they must have been created: neither could have emerged without the guiding hand of a creator. Most scientists cannot understand the debate over teaching 'intelligent design' as part of the science curriculum, considering the idea more philosophy than science. Aaron Johnson (University of Virginia 's College at Wise) says the debate reflects the public's confusion over what science is and that this confusion has its origins in the way we teach science in schools.
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Proposals floated during NCAA convention seek to limit how college coaches can electronically communicate with recruits.
One in five college athletes say their sports participation has prevented them from choosing the major they wanted, according to survey results released on Saturday at the NCAA Convention here. The survey also found that time demands on many athletes have increased in the past two decades, with many players spending as many hours practicing and playing their sport during the off-season as they do in-season.
With a mandate that says merit trumps all, the University of California, Berkeley, finds itself looking across the Pacific for its identity. Is this the new face of higher education?