A new website from the University of Virginia aims to help connect families with resources and tools to use during virtual learning. UVa’s Equity Center, Madison House and Youth-Nex, a research center at the Curry School of Education and Human Development, teamed up to launch cvilleeducationequity.com this week. The Charlottesville Education Equity site includes information about virtual learning, where families can get food, after-school care and mental health resources.
Dozens of people joined a protest in front of the statue of George Rogers Clark on University of Virginia grounds Thursday night calling for the statue’s removal. The protest was organized by indigenous activists, who say the statue depicts and enforces a legacy of Native American persecution and white supremacy. This comes ahead of a UVA Board of Visitors meeting Friday in which they are expected to decide the fate of the statue.
A few groups at the University of Virginia just launched an equity website. The Cville Education Equity collaborated with Youth-Nex, Madison House, and the Equity Center offers resources for teachers and families across the Charlottesville area. The website offers anti-racist curriculum for teachers, virtual education help for families, and food resources for those experiencing food insecurity.
As part of the University of Virginia’s push to expand COVID-19 testing efforts, students can now be randomly selected for mandatory asymptomatic testing. The university is targeting asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers that may not even know they have the virus, especially those living off of UVA Grounds.
University HQ—regarded as a leading higher learning resource center for post-secondary education—today released its list of the Top 55 Business Administration Programs for 2020. The University of Virginia holds the No. 4 spot, in part, due to its exceptionally diverse group of program participants and alumni in over 90 countries.
Practicing for all types of emergencies is critical for firefighters. That’s why the Charlottesville Fire Department (CFD) is preparing for an emergency on the new helipad at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
Google committed more than $8.5 million to 31 organizations, including the University of Virginia, to further artificial intelligence and data analytics efforts focused on understanding the spread of COVID-19 as well as the impact on healthcare workers and vulnerable communities.
Bronco Mendenhall is 4-for-4. The Virginia head coach has increased his win total in every season he’s been at the helm of the Cavaliers. Even before the pandemic, last season was going to be a tough act to follow.
Justice Carlos G. Muñiz, 51, has been a judge in the Florida Supreme Court since last year, when Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed him to the state’s highest court. A Tallahassee resident, he grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia.
The board of directors for Riverside Medical Group, the medical group for the Newport News-based Riverside Health System, announced Wednesday it has elected Dr. David Jones as the group’s new chairman. Jones has also been an associate professor of medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine since 2003.
Today, it’s applied as a product development and brand positioning strategy by high-profile software firms like Intuit, Samsung and Google, and its efficacy has been affirmed by scholars like Jeanne Liedtka, a professor in the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Writing for the Harvard Business Review, Liedtka cites a seven-year study of 50 projects from business, health care and social services sectors, in which she found “design thinking has the potential to unleash people’s full creative energies, win their commitment, and radically improve processes.”
It will be hard for undecided voters to “contextualize what he is saying here,” said Russell Riley, a presidential historian at UVA’s Miller Center. “Some of this will require contextualizing,” Riley said. “And what you hear depends on whether you are getting your context from MSNBC or ... from (Fox News commentator) Sean Hannity.”
A new study of how teaching innovation spreads found that early adopters prefer to talk to like-minded colleagues about their teaching practices, rather than with instructors who may not share their approach. This suggests that colleges need to do more to spread the use of evidence-based teaching practices on their campuses. I spoke with the study’s authors about their findings and some possible solutions, including Marilyne Stains, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Virginia.
The film is being called “a scandal” Stateside after Disney disclosed cooperation with Xinjiang authorities in the movie’s credits, thanking four Xinjiang propaganda organs and the Public Security Bureau of Turpan, entities that have ties to the forced internment of up to 1 million Muslim Uighurs. It’s a humongous ethical lapse (not to mention PR malpractice) that “underscores that in China, Disney is operating as a Chinese company,” UVA media studies professor Aynne Kokas tells China Watcher. “They are willing to make the same trade-offs Chinese production companies would ...
(Commentary by Aynne Kokas, assistant professor of media studies) Disney’s live-action remake of “Mulan” was initially celebrated for “embracing diversity” and “push[ing] themes of identity and girl power.” The basic facts of the movie seem to bear that out: It was led by a female director and featured a majority-Chinese cast. The plot follows a young woman who, despite being told that she has to “hide her gift away,” decides to join the army disguised as a boy. But the film’s real villain isn’t the patriarchal society that keeps Mulan from living out her true identity and full potential ...
The COVID-19 crisis may also have particularly affected the counting of people living in group settings – think college towns, nursing homes and prisons, according to Qian Cai, director of the Demographics Research Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
Students make up most of the cases of COVID-19 that have been reported on Grounds.
Between 1817 and 1865, approximately 4,000 enslaved people worked on the campus at the Thomas Jefferson–founded University of Virginia. Both owned and rented by the University, these forced laborers were responsible for the creation and maintenance of the school’s lauded Grounds, including the UNESCO Heritage–protected Rotunda that was designed by Jefferson, an architect, the third United States president, and a slave owner. Catalyzed in 2010 by a group of students who assembled themselves to raise awareness about the history of slavery at UVA, the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers honor...
Three years ago, A.D. Carson released a hip-hop album that took 34 tracks into original territory at the intersection of education and entertainment. “Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhyme & Revelations” wasn’t just a blend of beats and musings; it was Carson’s dissertation for his doctorate in rhetorics, communication and information design from Clemson University. And now his brand-new album is being released not by a popular record label, but by the University of Michigan Press.
(Commentary by Andrew Kaufman, associate professor and assistant director of UVA’s Center for Teaching Excellence) The perfect storm created by the COVID-19 pandemic and George Floyd’s tragic death and its aftermath has offered an unusual opportunity to renew our democracy in the place where it can have far-reaching impact: inside our nation’s classrooms.