Tag: Peter Galuszka
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The UVa Model: More Money for R&D, Faculty and Financial Aid
The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors gave fast-track approval to the university’s $3 billion year-ahead budget. The budget includes a $64 million increase, 22%, for research funding; an additional $12 million, 11%, for financial aid; and $13.5 million more for faculty hiring. Meanwhile, despite rolling back a planned 3% next-year tuition increase to 1.5%,…
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In Defense of Teresa Sullivan
by James A. Bacon Things have come to a strange pass when I find myself defending University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan. In past posts, I have been highly critical of her performance. But, while I think there are legitimate grounds for criticizing her, some attacks just go too far. A recent case in point…
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Building the Ed-Tech Research Network
by James A. Bacon K-12 schools and higher ed institutions across the United States are expected to spend a combined $11.3 billion on education technology in 2015. So many new products are flooding the educational marketplace that educators are finding it difficult to make informed decisions about which to use. To address this challenge, the…
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Sorry, We Have No Solar Today
By Peter Galuszka If you are a homeowner in Virginia interested in installing solar panels at your house, you might consider moving to New Jersey. Why? Because a subsidiary of your very own utility, Dominion Energy Solutions, is partnering with SunPower, a California-based company that makes solar systems for the home, to move into the…
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Crossing the Rubicon
By Steve Haner I don’t know about others, but I notified the Governor’s Office in March that I did not want another term on the State Council for Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV). My goal in going on that panel was to advocate against skyrocketing tuition. Four years of a losing battle was enough. The…
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Do Asians Face Discrimination at Top Virginia Universities?
by James A. Bacon Many Asian-Americans are getting frustrated with the enrollment caps on Asians at some of the United States’ most prestigious institutions of higher education. As Jason Riley recently opined in the Wall Street Journal, Asian-Americans are the new Jews, academic high achievers who are under-represented on top college campuses in comparison to their qualifications. A…
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Sexual Chaos on Campus
by James A. Bacon Vigen Guroian, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, ran a sexuality seminar a year ago in which students talked candidly about what he describes as the “deep, pervasive sexual chaos” that dominated the grounds. William Wilson, an academic dean, has met with “dozens” of young women so shaken…
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How to Make UVa a Research Giant
by Wade Gilley Recent news reports reveal that the governance problems at the University of Virginia continue to boil, as evidenced by accrediting issues, student protests, legislators considering the restructuring of the institution’s governing board and other news emerging both locally and nationally. The problems recently surfacing at Virginia’s flagship university are due in part…
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Not Just Any Old Resignation
Edward D. Miller, former CEO of research powerhouse Johns Hopkins Medicine, will resign from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors effective June 30 — a year early. In an interview with the Daily Progress, he cited his frustration with rising tuition and falling research grants. “I just felt there were issues I’d been advocating for…
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A Worthy Rant… but Not a Solution
by James A. Bacon Del. David Ramadan, R-Loudoun, fired with both barrels at the University of Virginia in a Richmond Times-Dispatch op-ed today. He voiced the same frustration that I periodically give vent to on this blog. UVa tuition policy — take from the rich and give to the poor — is exactly what Ramadan…
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UVa’s Silent Crisis
by James A. Bacon While the University of Virginia positions itself in the academic marketplace as an elite Southern Ivy akin to Duke University with the full support of faculty, administrators and the Board of Visitors, students aren’t terribly happy about the rising tuition and fees. The university’s “Affordable Excellence” is long on excellence and short…
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Is U.Va. Possessed by the Devil?
By Peter Galuszka Over the past weeks there’s been plenty of blogging about Rolling Stone’s coverage of the University of Virginia and lots of comment by two conservatives who believe there is an evil “hook up” culture that involves casual sex and today’s loss of morality. Well, I’ve been feeling sort of down recently (maybe…
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The “Culture of Rape” Demands Moral Reform
by James A. Bacon Over the past few days I have advanced the argument that there is a very real problem with sexual relations on college campuses, and in particular the University of Virginia, but I take issue with the characterization of the problem as an “epidemic of rape.” The root problem is a drunken…
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How Ideology Shapes our Understanding of Sexual Assault
by James A. Bacon On January 22, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum announcing the formation of a White House task force to protect students from sexual assault. “The prevalence of rape and sexual assault at our Nation’s institutions of higher education is both deeply troubling and a call to action,” he said. “Studies show…
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Sexual Assault Reform: UVa’s White House Connection
by James A. Bacon Reed Fawell III and I generated a furious response yesterday when we posted a detailed account of how the University of Virginia administration used Rolling Stone magazine’s infamous gang rape story to galvanize support for what we described as an “ideological” agenda for combating sexual assault on campus. Fellow blogger Peter Galuszka chastised us:…