The Confederate plaques on the UVA Rotunda have been taken down. The plaques were removed by crews early Sunday morning.
UVA is removing Confederate plaques from its Rotunda, strengthening its ban on open flames and giving funds from an old KKK pledge to the Charlottesville violence victims as it grapples with the Aug. 11 white nationalist rally on its campus.
The UVA Board of Visitors voted to implement some of the changes called for in the report the University issued addressing what it could have done better during and leading up to the August violence and protests in Charlottesville.
Two plaques with ties to confederate history are off the University of Virginia’s Rotunda. Employees in UVA’s Division of Facilities Management took down two plaques that commemorated the lives of fallen Confederate soldiers with ties to the University.
(Subscription required) Scott C. Beardsley doesn’t make an ominous first impression, but he is of a sort that unsettles many academics: the so-called nontraditional leader. Before becoming dean of UVA’s Darden School of Business, he spent 26 years at the management-consulting firm McKinsey. Beardsley has more company on campuses these days, as detailed in his new book, “Higher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia.” http://www.chronicle.com/article/Everything-Is-a-Business-/241204?cid=wcontentlist
On Friday, a panel of legal experts at the UVA School of Law attempted to contextualize the events of Aug. 11 and 12 within the greater scope of American history – particularly moments such as Reconstruction, 20th-century Ku Klux Klan violence and the civil rights movement.
It is with pleasure – and excited anticipation – that we welcome the news that James E. Ryan will become the next president of the University of Virginia.
Doctors who operate "off the grid" have an ethical obligation to ensure that their patients understand this and to make sure their patients have, at minimum, a catastrophic-coverage policy, said Carolyn Long Engelhard, director of the Health Policy Program at the UVA School of Medicine. “Under the Affordable Care Act, which the physicians may hate and which we know has problems, poor, uninsured people who can’t get health insurance at their jobs can qualify for pretty large subsidies and get comprehensive insurance," Engelhard said.
While overt racism is rare in most parts of the United States, a significant minority of Americans express racially-charged ideas. A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that 70 percent of Americans strongly agreed that people of different races should be "free to live wherever they choose" and that "all races are equal.” "There are nearly 250 million adults in the United States, so even small percentages likely represent the beliefs of many millions of Americans," said Larry Sabato of the UVA Center for Politics.
Rachel Narr wasn't popular in high school. She was no wears-pink-on-Wednesdays "Mean Girl." She wasn't the cheerleader who dated the quarterback. But she said that she had strong friendships, and one exceptionally close comrade meant a lot to Narr during her teen years. When it comes to that friend, "I suppose in many ways she is the inspiration for a lot of my work on teen friendships," said Narr, who is now a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Virginia.
Rachel Narr wasn't popular in high school. She was no wears-pink-on-Wednesdays "Mean Girl." She wasn't the cheerleader who dated the quarterback. But she said that she had strong friendships, and one exceptionally close comrade meant a lot to Narr during her teen years. When it comes to that friend, "I suppose in many ways she is the inspiration for a lot of my work on teen friendships," said Narr, who is now a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Virginia.
(By David A. Martin, Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the UVA School of Law) Early in his Sept. 5 press conference announcing the termination of DACA, Attorney General Jeff Sessions laid the groundwork this way: No greater good can be done for the overall health and well-being of our Republic than preserving and strengthening the impartial rule of law. … Societies where the rule of law is subject to political whims and personal biases tend to become societies afflicted by corruption, poverty, and human suffering. With these general propositions, I couldn’t agree more. But...
A new poll finds relatively little support for white supremacists and similar groups, but there is support for certain racially-charged ideas such groups often hold. The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted in conjunction with UVA’s Center for Politics in the wake of violence on Aug. 11 and 12.
Civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson visited Charlottesville on Thursday. Students at the University of Virginia invited him to speak at Old Cabell Hall on Grounds. This event kicks off Jackson's Healing and Rebuilding Virginia bus tour.
UVA will give $12,500 to people injured in the violent clash stirred up by the “Unite the Right” rally last month in Charlottesville, Teresa A. Sullivan, UVa’s president, announced on Thursday.
Money donated to the University of Virginia by the Ku Klux Klan will go toward helping heal the Charlottesville community. UVA President Teresa Sullivan made the announcement Thursday during the university's Board of Visitors meeting.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors put money and recognition towards minority students at committee meetings on Thursday. The university announced the Clark Scholars Program, based on a $15 million donation by the A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation. The university will match the donation, making $30 million available for underrepresented minority students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
James E. Ryan, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will be the University of Virginia’s next president, according to multiple sources. Ryan, an expert on law and education, is expected to be approved by the Board of Visitors today as Teresa A. Sullivan’s successor.
Jim Matteo of UVA’s Office of the Treasuer says the three major bond rating agencies have all given UVA a Triple-A rating.