We can see that administrators are attempting to refashion the way the University understands itself. The school wants to be a public global university: which is not a contradiction in terms, but not a fully coherent concept either.
As it currently stands, the University can and does find ways to woo top talent. But give one class of competitor the ability to sweeten the pie with monthly paychecks and no recruit will settle for a Cavalier jersey until he’s exhausted every option to play-for-pay.
Two weeks after Tina Fey talked about the importance of the arts in education, I held improv comedy callbacks in my living room.
If the University wishes to frame itself as a globally conscious school, it must not neglect Africa.
The voting booth is not our sanctuary. Pope Francis’ recent comments touch on this aspect of our faith. We do not need to condone homosexuality in order to recognize that in a pluralistic society gay people should be allowed to live their lives as they see fit.
I don’t think we can maintain our integrity as an institution of learning modeled after Jeffersonian ideals without restoring grant aid — even if it means cutting the budget of something like football.
The conventional wisdom that a college’s campus consists of above-ground buildings still holds for the University. For some schools in Singapore, however, this may not be the case for much longer
One can be outraged by the Republicans’ new plan of action without even having an opinion on whether the Affordable Care Act is good or devastating for the country.
Higher education is slowly becoming out of reach for low-income families.
The question of who is responsible for workplace preparation — firms, schools or students — is important because the question of responsibility is, implicitly, a question of cost. It takes time and money to turn students into workers.
Identity, culture, memory, emotion, reasoning, communication and premeditated cooperation — all characteristics we thought made us unique — exist underwater, too.
The better response to Putin’s statement, however, would have been silence. I believe few Americans read Putin’s New York Times piece and accepted his portrayal of the United States as accurate. There was no need for McCain to escalate the situation in a tit-for-tat response article, especially after a diplomatic success, and at a time when cooperation between the two countries is critical.
Regardless, the fact that students didn’t protest the Santorum event is not necessarily a bad thing. Student protests have an unfortunate tendency of sacrificing free-speech principles for the sake of another favored cause.
When I heard news of social segregation at Alabama, I could not believe such practices still existed. But after further contemplation, I began to see how unsurprising Alabama’s situation is. Looking at the many Greek systems in our region, and even examining the University’s own sorority and fraternity life, it is clear that a sort of segregation continues — even if it is not intentional like Alabama’s.
In the time between when articles are published, the Twitter feed is one of the best places to find out what’s going on at the University in real time.
Many of the arts-related events that happen on Grounds and in the surrounding Charlottesville area are conveniently located and cost little to nothing. More students should make it a priority to integrate the arts into their lives and to take advantage of the artistic opportunities that being a student at the University presents.
Dongguan’s suicide waiver reveals a wrongheaded approach toward student mental health on the part of its administration.
Off the Hook exists to draw awareness to the notion that a sole interest in sex does not respect either oneself or one’s partner. The essence of a hookup is a no-strings attached, emotionless encounter which is not a relationship at all, as neither party has respectfully taken into account the feelings of the other.
On September 13, UVA Today ran a laudatory article about U.Va.’s place as a “top 10” Teach for America (TFA) corps contributor. The celebratory article gave me pause, as it continued to stoke the heroic one-dimensional narrative of TFA as the cure-all to urban public education in the United States. TFA is not a solution and U.Va. should exercise caution when trumpeting a program that has had such mediocre results.
Our school’s fascination with Jefferson, the man who laid the school’s conceptual foundations, is longstanding. Our interest in the lives of the people who laid the school’s physical cornerstones is quite recent.
