The majority of college students attend public institutions not far from their home. In fact, more than half of freshmen at four-year colleges go to a school within 100 miles of where they went to high school, according to an annual survey of freshmen from the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles.
Lots of computer science students dream of landing a lucrative job at Google or Facebook when they graduate, but a new grant program aims to shine a light on an alternative career path: the public sector. A group of 21 universities and colleges, all members of the Public Interest Technology University Network, were awarded $3.1 million last week to fund 27 projects promoting the use of technology for the public good. The University of Virginia will design and offer an interdisciplinary graduate-level course called “Innovation in the Public Interest” that will tackle real-world proble...
Ultimately, while the shoulds and oughts can provide a road map, they go only so far in forming moral character, says Robert Louis Wilken, a UVA professor emeritus of the history of Christianity. Role models – parents, aunts and uncles, adults within the religious community – do the heavy lifting. “People act on what they’re drawn to, on what they love,” he says. “They see someone who does something good and say, ‘I’d like to be like that.’”
(Video) The UVA Medical Center's new emergency department is now open for business.
Drafted in the first round out of UVA, Zimmerman never left Washington, appearing for the Nationals in every season of their existence following their relocation from Montreal. Now Zimmerman, 35 years old and approaching free agency, finds himself in an unprecedented position that he feared might never arrive: preparing for a long-awaited World Series.
For Dick Howard, a constitutional scholar at the University of Virginia, a constitutional crisis occurs when the president and Congress go beyond their usual stalemates over policy, to a standoff over a fundamental question of governance.
The next key fight over President Donald Trump’s financial records could be whether it gets resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court before the end of Trump’s first term in office. UVA law professor Saikrishna Prakash said Trump’s attorneys using procedural hurdles, like requesting an en banc rehearing, would fit within their general legal strategy of delay.
“Trump won the big three (Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin) by a grand total of 77,000 votes. It doesn’t take much of a shift to reverse that,” Larry Sabato, a leading elections analyst and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
According to research conducted by Dewey Cornell, a professor of education at the University of Virginia who developed a threat assessment model used across the U.S., the process can have positive effects: less bullying, fewer suspensions and an elevated feeling of safety. In schools that used Cornell’s model, a study showed, kids were more willing to seek help from adults if another student was bullying them or threatening violence.
Kyle Kondik, political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and author of “The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President,” said the state reflects the political realignment taking place across the country: Voters in the parts of the state that are highly educated and increasingly diverse are turning toward Democrats, while working-class white voters continue their migration to the Republican Party.
Demand Justice, a group founded to counteract the conservative wing’s decades-long advantage over liberals in judicial fights, will release a list of 32 suggested Supreme Court nominees for any future Democratic president as they ramp up their push for the 2020 contenders to do the same. The full list from Demand Justice includes M. Elizabeth Magill, the provost of the University of Virginia.
In an effort to increase enrollment of first-generation students, David and Jane Walentas has donated $100 million to the University of Virginia. David Walentas, a New York real estate developer, is UVA alumnus who also was the first in his family to attend college.
The University of Virginia has launched a helpline that is intended to provide answers to anyone with opioid-related questions.
A man who was the first in his family to attend college and went on to become a successful real estate developer has made a $100 million contribution to help other first-generation students. David Walentas and his wife Jane are donating $100 million of their fortune to Walentas’ alma mater, the University of Virginia.
The Virginia Film Festival is once again bringing a diverse program of more than 150 films covering a wide range of important and fascinating issues and topics. The festival will again partner with James Madison’s Montpelier to present the “Race in America” series, featuring films dealing with a wide spectrum of issues that dominate, and in many ways define, our nation today.
A Virginia case is once again headed for the U.S. Supreme Court as opponents of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline try to prevent construction of that 600-mile project from West Virginia to North Carolina. "The trail runs through The George Washington and Jefferson National Forest. Those forests are managed by the Forest Service," says Cale Jaffe, a UVA law professor and a consultant to the Southern Environmental Law Center, which is leading a fight against the pipeline on behalf of seven groups.
UVA physician Dr. Richard Santen has his research, and then he has his passion project. For the past several years, he has turned his attention to getting appropriate treatment to people with diabetes who live in underserved – often low-income and rural – areas.
(Commentary by Richard Bonnie and Joanna Lee Williams, both at the University of Virginia) Adolescents have our attention. Young people are leading transformative movements on climate change, gun control, police brutality and criminal justice that are reverberating in the halls of Congress and the White House.
UVA hasn’t received a deluge of early decision applications from prospective students, but Dean of Admission Greg Roberts said he expects a trickle to become a flood in the final hours before the application deadline Tuesday.
A new scholarship program aimed at attracting first-generation students to the University of Virginia will be established as part of a $100 million gift announced Saturday. Alumnus David Walentas, a New York real estate developer, and his wife, Jane, donated the $100 million. He was the first in his family to attend college, according to a news release.