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.
Growing up in Richmond’s violent Mosby Court public housing community, Malcolm Cook understood that each day could be his last. And that was years before he found out he had a life-threatening heart ailment. Yet here is Cook today, now 23, a UVA graduate working toward his master’s degree in counseling, and a budding star linebacker on the school’s football team.
James E. Ryan, a scholar of law and education who is dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will be the University of Virginia’s next president, school officials announced Friday.
Meredith Clark, a UVA assistant professor of media studies, said that ESPN’s reprimand is tied to the false belief that journalism is supposed to be objective. “The industry is built on values in which whiteness is the default, that white perspectives, by default, are objective and anything that differs from that shows bias or is partial in some way,” Clark said.
As part of University of Virginia’s efforts to reconcile its controversial past, Wednesday, it formally dedicated Pinn Hall in honor of Dr. Vivian Pinn.
The first time Dr. Vivian Pinn walked through the doors of the University Hospital was to visit her grandfather. He was sick, and he was in a segregated ward. “Who would have thought then that I would return to a building with my name on it?” Pinn asked at a Wednesday event to dedicate a UVA School of Medicine building in her honor.
Virginia historians and political analysts say the off-off-year election schedule has worked to the benefit of incumbent politicians and political machines who have been resistant to change in the commonwealth. “The off-year election certainly helped maintain control of things for the Byrd machine and the machine that operated prior,” says Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Virginia historians and political analysts say the off-off-year election schedule has worked to the benefit of incumbent politicians and political machines who have been resistant to change in the commonwealth. “The off-year election certainly helped maintain control of things for the Byrd machine and the machine that operated prior,” says Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics.
Deborah Hellman, a UVA law professor who specializes in bioethics, says that from an ethical standpoint there are two ways to think about this.
UVA will repay a 1921 pledge from the Klu Klux Klan, university President Teresa A. Sullivan announced Thursday morning. The University will donate an inflation-adjusted amount of $12,500 to the Charlottesville Patient Support Fund to help with medical expenses of those injured during the Aug. 11 and 12 white supremacist rallies.
Until a new AD is hired, Littlepage will run the office, and he already has an idea of the qualities his successor should possess. Asked to describe the ideal candidate for his job, Littlepage didn’t flinch. “I would say the most important thing is that it would require a person that is a listener, a person that is a relationship-builder,” he said. “To me, the most important thing is for the new person to come in here and develop the relationships and the respect among the coaches, to understand the culture that has been built.”
Scott Beardsley first heard the term “nontraditional leader” several years ago when he tried to make the jump from being director of a management consulting firm to president of an Ivy League college. “I was told that you’re a nontraditional leader and that’s complicated,” Beardsley recalled being told by an executive search firm as tried to become president of Dartmouth College back in 2012 and 2013. “I said, ‘What’s that mean? What’s that word you’re calling me?’” recounted Beardsley, who is now dean and Charles C. Abbott Professor of Business Administration at UVA’s Darden School of Busines...
Dewey Cornell, professor at UVA’s Curry School of Education who has studied school safety for decades, said gunshot detection systems are not practical or cost-effective because school shootings are extremely rare. "School budgets are tight, and funds need to be allocated where they’re going to be most effective," he said. "The average school has a fatal shooting every 6,000 years."
“Gillespie is a political pro, but he’s being squeezed by Corey Stewart and Trump on one side, and on the other by voters who don’t want anything to do with Trump or Corey Stewart,” says Larry Sabato, founder and director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “He’s got a very narrow path to victory.”