The United States’ decision to withdraw from the United Nations’ educational, science and cultural organization will have no impact on the designation of Monticello and the University of Virginia on the World Heritage Site List.
For disadvantaged students, getting into a top college is a significant feat. But getting a diploma matters far more.The top performer on this measure is the University of Virginia, with a grad rate of 93 percent for Pell recipients, according to a Washington Post analysis of federal data made public Thursday.
Want efficiency? Try stable funding. Another common theme was the need for more stable state funding for higher education. Frequently mentioned was the idea of establishing a reserve fund for higher education to buffer institutions from backtracking on promised support. Del. Kirk Cox, R-Colonial Heights, next in line to be Speaker of the House, quoted Richmond businessman and former University of Virginia Rector Bill Goodwin as saying, if the state wants universities to be more efficient, the state needs to stabilize funding. Volatile state funding creates uncertainty. Faced with uncertai...
This August, Todd DeSorbo accepted an offer to become the new head coach of the University of Virginia swim team. DeSorbo had previously been associate head coach at ACC rival NC State, and he explained his decision and his transition on this episode of Off Deck.
President Donald Trump has decided to nominate Kirstjen Nielsen to succeed John Kelly as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the White House announced Wednesday evening. Before her time in the private sector, she served during the President George W. Bush administration as special assistant to the president and as senior director for prevention, preparedness and response at the White House Homeland Security Council. She attended the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and the University of Virginia Law School.
(Co-written by By Mary Peyton Baskin, a third-year student at the University of Virginia) My rules: let’s deal. Seven cards for me, three for you, and jokers are wild. But only for me. That’s how our General Assembly works now. State legislators get to draw their own district boundaries. And they are manipulated so that incumbents have nearly unbeatable odds in favor of their own re-election.
Trump has never revealed his own IQ. So can we work it out? "I don't recall ever coming across a list of presidents and their IQs," says Barbara A. Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center. "But you can easily find a list of presidents inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in their universities."
"You should be very skeptical of anyone claiming Northam is going to run away with this," UVA political analyst Geoffrey Skelley said. "Virginia's voters are whiter, older, and more educated. Only the third favors Northam."
Legal experts and law enforcement sources said that the claims described by Lucia Evans, a former aspiring actor, rise to the level of a felony charge under New York laws. However, because a criminal conviction could be difficult to achieve, prosecutors may be reluctant to bring a case in the first place. “When you read her account, it’s heartbreaking and it sounds like a very straightforward description of a forcible encounter and a crime,” said Anne Coughlin, a UVA law professor.
“A closer look at one high-stakes evaluation system … shows the positive consequences such systems can have for students,” authors Thomas S. Dee and James Wyckoff write in the fall issue of EducationNext. Wyckoff, the Curry Memorial Professor of Education and Policy and director of the EdPolicyWorks program at the University of Virginia, says the Washington, D.C. ublic Schools system gives teachers clear expectations. “I believe the DCPS teacher evaluation reforms have succeeded because they were well-designed, very well-implemented, and DCPS policymakers were willing to modify polic...
(Commentary by Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor at UVA’s Center for Politics) It’s no surprise that 2017’s top race is competitive. The November of the year following a presidential election is always relatively quiet on the electoral front, with only regularly-scheduled statewide races for governor in New Jersey and Virginia. With the Garden State’s contest looking like a safe Democratic pickup and Alabama’s special election for the U.S. Senate not happening until December, coverage of the competitive Virginia race seems to be accelerating as it enters the final month before Election D...
UVA Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton asked for women to be quizzed about more than just about how often they smoke, drink, exercise and their dietary habits. She said: “This is an important study that should remind health care providers of the need to thoroughly discuss a woman's history beyond simply asking about her physical health.”
A group of UVA students did their part to stop the spread of domestic violence Wednesday. They reached out to doctors and other health experts to look for the signs of this sometimes deadly abuse.
Both the Albemarle Supervisors and the City Council agreed Wednesday to issue declarations of a water emergency. Gary O’Connell of the Albemarle County Service Authority says water restrictions for both localities, and at the University of Virginia, begin at 8 a.m.
UVA invited three speakers to discuss the history of the alt-right group. The discussion covered everything from media coverage to the origins and while each speaker had something different to say, they all agree learning about who the alt-right is critical.
After the August rally, UVA historian Philip Zelikow thought of a Texas case he’d worked on in the 1980s that relied on state law banning “military companies” not authorized by the governor. Zelikow called the Charlottesville case an important reminder of laws already on the books for decades “that are meant to keep our political protests and confrontations free from paramilitary intimidation and companies of men with guns.”
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, said it's hardly unusual for a president's favorability to drop after taking office. Still, Trump's poor national standing could have consequences for the GOP in the 2018 midterm elections, when 23 Democrats, two independents and eight Republicans are up for re-election.
Democrats only have a handful of competitive races this November into which they can pour their anti-Trump energies. Virginia, many electoral experts say, no longer really appears to be a swing state, having flipped from red to blue in the past three elections. But the Virginia governor's race this year is making some on the left queasy as a redux of Election Day 2016. "You should be very skeptical of anyone claiming Northam is going to run away with this," says Geoffrey Skelley, a UVA political analyst. "Virginia's voters are whiter, older, and more educated. Only the third favors Northam."
“These are opportunities for Republicans to stanch the bleeding that could occur in the midterm cycle and even solidify shifts in those districts,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a UVA political analyst. “[Democrats] need to get enough seats to win back the House and that’s made harder when they have to compete in more districts where their incumbents are retiring.”
A decade after the Women’s Health Initiative clinical trials, misperceptions regarding hormone therapy and gaps in knowledge prevent women from accessing treatment for menopausal symptoms, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society. Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton of UVA’s Midlife Health Center and North American Menopause Society executive director, and colleagues sought to uncover knowledge gaps among health care providers who treat postmenopausal women.