Kamala Harris made history as the first woman of color to be nominated as vice president on the ticket for a major party in United States history. Experts at Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics said it did not come as a surprise.
It’s a day they’ll never forget. Pastors, rabbi, clergy and people of all faith backgrounds linked in arms to join the counter-protest against the Unite the Right rally on Au. 12th, 2017. Wednesday night, on the third anniversary of the rally, the University of Virginia hosted a panel of religious racial justice activists to reflect on the experience, and what inspired them to counter-protest.
In an oral history released after his death, the former national security adviser revealed a few key moments in which his ideas failed in the war against Saddam Hussein. The newly released oral history was conducted for UVA’s Miller Center as part of its series of interviews with key figures documenting nearly every presidency of recent times.
“Praying With Our Feet: Religious Activists Remember the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville,” featured a panel of clergy who worked to combat the white supremacist views espoused at the 2017 rally. Moderated by Jalane Schmidt, a UVA associate professor of religious studies, the panelists spoke candidly about their experiences and how the rally challenged and strengthened their belief.
The designers of the new memorial, which can’t be missed and is already attracting a steady stream of visitors, say they wanted to fulfill the need for a memorial that made an invisible, often whitewashed history visible. They also wanted something open-ended, subject to interpretation, a place of happy accidents. They succeeded. Here is a space you might sit in for a long time, and wonder: How did we get here? And where are we going?
As lockdown orders took hold across the nation, Lalin Anik, an assistant professor of business administration at the University of Virginia, set out to learn more about the effect of quarantine on FOMO. What she found in her research, which she hopes to publish this winter, is that FOMO, like many things in 2020, hasn’t gone away. It’s just moved online.
A University of Virginia vice provost for academic affairs has been selected as the next executive vice chancellor of academic affairs at the University of Texas System. According to a release, Chancellor James Milliken announced on Tuesday that Archie L. Holmes, PhD, will be heading back to his home state.
UVA political science chair Jennifer Lawless said it would be “tough to find someone stronger than U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris” on the campaign trail, after Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden announced Harris as his pick for running mate on Tuesday. Lawless appeared on GoLocal LIVE an hour after Biden’s decision was announced.
Charles Nuttycombe, director of CNalysis, an election forecasting firm, assessed the likely outcomes of state legislative races in “The State of the States: The Legislatures,” an essay published at Crystal Ball, the political website run by Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. Nuttycombe’s conclusion is best summarized in the sub-headline: “Don’t expect much overall change even as many chambers are competitive.”
A task force at the University of Virginia has released a report recommending several ways to improve racial equity. The Racial Equity Task Force’s report, called Audacious Future: Commitment Required, outlines 12 initiatives.
University of Virginia officials have elaborated on plans for the fall semester which will begin as we inch closer to Labor Day. President Jim Ryan and the top brass at UVA held a virtual town hall Monday afternoon. The format included Ryan reading questions about COVID-19 that have been submitted.
After administrators at the University of Virginia noticed an uptick in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks both locally and nationally, they began to look at the plans they’d made for in-person reopening of classes this fall. UVA quickly made the difficult decision to delay in-person classes for two weeks, and move to an online format for at least two weeks while they monitor conditions.
The University of Virginia’s Racial Equity Task Force is recommending a sweeping set of changes at the school, including removing Confederate and racist symbols, funding scholarships and endowments for minority students and faculty and rooting out procedures and policies perpetuating prejudice.
People with weakened immune systems are at higher risk of getting severely sick from COVID-19 and may be sick for a longer period of time, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some schools are being proactive about accommodating their immunocompromised students. The University of Virginia is offering some in-person instruction, but is making all courses available online, for example.
When classes resume at the University of Kentucky next week, the world will look very different for the university’s undergraduates. Some of them will be studying at home, virtually. Those who’ve chosen to live on campus will take a mix of in-person, hybrid and online courses, the former in physically distanced classrooms wearing masks under the shadow of COVID-19. The University of Virginia is taking a similar approach.
In May, the nonprofit Northwest Evaluation Association and collaborators at Brown University and the University of Virginia projected that students would return to school this fall having made only two-thirds of their typical school-year gains in reading and less than half of their typical school-year gains in math.
UVA coach Bronco Mendenhall may not be in a hurry this month, but there’s plenty of work to be done at UVA before a potential season is played, work being done amidst the swirling uncertainty around the season.
Two UVA students are launching a podcast Wednesday about the Unite the Right events from 2017 and how they affected Charlottesville’s immigrant community. Mehdy Elouassi and Abdullah Paracha say they created the podcast as a student project through the Religion, Race and Democracy Lab at UVA.
Another round of positive-free COVID-19 testing has Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall feeling good about the safety procedures his team and the UVA athletic department are using, even while his overall outlook for fall sports remains grim.
The University of Virginia released their fourth update on COVID-19 student-athlete testing on Monday. There were no new positive tests since the last update issued on July 31. There have been no positive test results since the report issued on July 24.