Tag: Peter Galuszka
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How Big Is UVa’s Diversity Bureaucracy?
The University of Virginia is paying its Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity, Marcus Martin, $349,000 a year — the highest salary of any of 50 higher-education diversity officer identified by Campus Reform, a project of the conservative, non-profit Leadership Institute. How much money are public universities devoting to their diversity bureaucracies, Campus Reform asks, and…
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UVa Philanthropy Now Equals State Support
The University of Virginia could reach a milestone this year: collecting more money from private donations than from the state. At a Board of Visitors meeting earlier this month, Melody Bianchetto, UVa’s vice president for finance, told board members that a steady stream of philanthropic income is expected to provide more than $150 million in…
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UVa Hikes In-State Tuition by 2.2%
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors has approved a 2.2% tuition hike for in-state students and a 3.5% increase for out-of-state graduates — the second year of modest increases after years of aggressive increases. Administrators said the increases are necessary to address $24 million in new costs next school year along with a $7 million…
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Author Files Suit to Spur Investigation of UVa Admissions
Jeff Thomas, author of “Virginia Politics & Government in a New Century: The Price of Power,” has filed a complaint asking the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Western District of Virginia to launch an independent investigation into admissions practices at the University of Virginia. Reports the Cavalier Daily: Thomas said in an email to The Cavalier…
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UVa’s Invisible Research Subsidies
The Trump administration’s proposed budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health will make it harder to find new cures — and harder to create new jobs, contends David S. Wilkes, dean of the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine. In 2016 UVa received $126 million in NIH funding, accounting for about 60% of its…
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New Question: What Role Does the President’s Office Play in UVa Admissions?
The University of Virginia’s office of University Advancement curried favor for children of major donors by working through the office of President Teresa Sullivan rather than lobbying the admissions department directly. That’s the big reveal in reporting by Daily Progress reporter Derek Quizon in his follow-up to the Washington Post reporting on documents showing that the…
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A Thumb on the Scale for Rich Kids Applying to UVa
The news hardly comes a surprise but it’s unnerving to see the details in print: The University of Virginia’s fund-raising arm seeks to help the children of potential donors gain admittance to the university, according to documents reviewed by the Washington Post. Writes reporter Rees Shapiro: “The records from the U-Va. advancement office, which oversees…
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Ian Baucom’s Plan to Change the World
As the University of Virginia approaches the 200th anniversary of its 1819 founding, university officials are thinking big. Very big. Change-the-world big. The university aspires to raise $4 billion over the course of a ten-year fund-raising campaign, and it has established a vision to match. “What will it take to extend the unique promise of this…
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University Research — Your Tuition Dollars at Work?
Bacon’s Rebellion reader “Izzo” pointed us to a National Science Foundation database that breaks down the R&D funding sources for U.S. universities. I have extracted the numbers for Virginia’s three leading research institutions — Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Commonwealth University — and converted them to pie charts. The yellow segments show…
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Faculty “Cost per Enrolled Student” Varies Widely
More fascinating data from “Faculty Deployment in Research Universities,” co-authored by University of Virginia economics professor Sarah Turner…. Best paid fields. A key finding of her research is that average faculty salaries vary widely from department to department, depending upon supply and demand considerations specific to each field. Disciplines in which Ph.D.s are employed outside of…
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Faculty Productivity Paradox: Get Paid More, Teach Less
Newly published research by Sarah Turner at the University of Virginia and Paul N. Courant at the University of Michigan sheds light on a critical factor driving the cost of attendance at public universities: faculty productivity. Turner’s and Courant’s findings buttress a point we have made repeatedly on this blog: that higher-paid faculty members spend more time on…
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UVa Professors Working Harder than You Think
A few days ago, I delivered a rap on the knuckles to Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia. He had made what I found to be a remarkable statement in a radio interview: “The university systems throughout the state of Virginia are running lean. They’re serving students very well.” Really? Universities…
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“Running Lean” at the University of Virginia
Once upon a time, the credo of American journalism was to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Today, the attitude of many reporters is quite the reverse: Defend the institutional status quo against Tea Partiers, Trumpkins, rabble-rousers and other yahoos. The bias is especially evident in coverage of that most elite and privileged of establishment institutions,…
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UVa’s Faculty Hiring Strategy
Every so often, “Virginia,” the University of Virginia alumni magazine, runs articles shedding light on the administration of Mr. Jefferson’s university. The latest issue focuses on the challenge of replacing some 300 aging faculty members and recruiting 100 more as part of its five-year hiring plan. The university underwent a hiring boom in the 1970s…
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Politically Incorrect: Robert Turner Defends T.J.
Three cheers for Robert Turner, a University of Virginia law professor, who went public last week with a full-throated defense of Thomas Jefferson. Once upon a time, the idea that Jefferson needed defending at the university he founded would have seemed ludicrous. But that’s before the forces of political correctness started taking over U.S. campuses,…