The Education School hosted Stanford Psychology Prof. Carol Dweck at their annual Walter Ridley lecture. She spoke about fixed mindsets in education and how students can achieve more by pushing themselves out of their comfort zones.
Croquet for Haiti, a Catholic Student Ministry philanthropy event now in its third year, is just one of the many initiatives sponsored by the organization in its effort to foster deeper relations with the local and international religious communities.
Virginia returns to John Paul Jones Arena Tuesday night to battle Norfolk State in NIT First Round action.
Like adults speaking with hushed voices at the dinner table, some University leaders have moved to bar what they euphemistically call “the summer’s unpleasantness” — the Board of Visitors’ attempted ouster of University President Teresa Sullivan — from polite conversation.
On Monday night, the Charlottesville City Council held its first public hearing on the budget and tax rates for the 2014 Fiscal Year.
University President Teresa Sullivan highlighted the need to aggressively recruit faculty in her annual report, which was released Monday. She identified three “immediate” priorities: faculty recruitment, curriculum redesign and improving research.
As a member of the press, I will be the first to tell you — the press is not your friend. This is especially true if you attend the University of Virginia, where the story of President Teresa Sullivan’s botched ouster, handled with all the grace of Janet Jackson’s historic Super Bowl dance, haunts our hallowed Grounds even a year later.
The US News & World Report published the 2014 rankings of graduate programs, and many University graduate programs retained their status or moved up on the lists. The Darden School moved up from No. 13 to No.12 in this years rankings and Curry School of Education also moved up one spot, from No. 23 to No. 22.
Only by looking at multiple perspectives can we really begin to understand what it means to live and study here in Charlottesville.
The Charlottesville Commonwealth Attorney’s office is overseeing the Charlottesville Police Department in an investigation of a shooting involving two adult males and a police officer. The incident occurred Saturday morning shortly before 1 a.m. near the 100 block of Second Street NW, just off the Downtown Mall.
After spending six months in Houston, Texas last year, I was really craving a great Charlottesville cupcake.
Crime in Charlottesville should serve to remind us that the community we live in is not always a safe one.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announced in a press release Wednesday that February state general fund revenue collections were down 2 percent from January.
Larry Sabato, politics professor and director of the University’s Center for Politics, was named William & Mary’s 2013 Hunter B.
The Virginia men’s basketball team was not selected for the NCAA Tournament during “Selection Sunday,” leaving the squad awaiting a consolation spot in the NIT Tournament. The Cavaliers lost three of their final four games including a blowout 75-56 loss to N.C.
Scott Wood hit seven 3-pointers—including four straight in a pivotal second-half stretch— for a game-high 23 points, and the Wolfpack dominated Virginia on the boards 39-28 to cruise to a 75-56 victory at the Greensboro Coliseum.
Following a flurry of new developments in the University governance crisis, the Association of American University Professors (AAUP) released a report Thursday lambasting the University Board of Visitors and Rector Helen Dragas for their role in last summer’s forced resignation of University President Teresa Sullivan.
During the first half of the Virginia men’s basketball team’s Senior Night home tilt against conference rival Maryland Sunday night, many observers likely wondered whether the squad that had clawed its way to a winning conference record and at-large NCAA tournament consideration had departed Charlottesville—mentally, at least—with the rest of the student body for Spring Break. By the final buzzer, the “real” Cavaliers had returned—along with their still threadbare tournament hopes.
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni on Friday appealed its Dec. 31 complaint to the Department of Education protesting “wrongful interference with institutional autonomy and governance powers” by the University’s accrediting body.
Several shots were fired on the corner between 1:45 and 2 a.m Thursday night. According to eyewitness testimony from first-year Engineering student Chris Glazier, the unknown gunman fired a third or fourth bullet through the front window of Mincers as he fled on foot.
