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The Jay Gatsby in All of Us

Gregoris Kalai | Posted 05.23.2013 | College
Gregoris Kalai

There is a Jay Gatbsy in all of us. Despite our best efforts to be content and happy with what ever our current circumstances are, we have evolved to want more. More what?

Colbert At U.Va.: You Owe The Previous Generation Nothing

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 05.18.2013 | College

Comedian Stephen Colbert thanked the University of Virginia during his speech Saturday at its 2013 valedictory exercises for inviting him to be the ke...

Human Scale at Hudson Yards

J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.15.2013 | Arts
J. Michael Welton

Fresh out of undergraduate school at the University of Virginia in the late 1980s - and facing the reality of a recession - Thomas Woltz leapt at the ...

Why This High School Senior Turned Down Harvard

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Klein | Posted 05.09.2013 | College

When high school senior Kevin Cao received college acceptance letters from elite universities, such as Princeton, Stanford and Harvard, he thought his...

Listen: Thomas Jefferson's 'Art of Power'

Bill Marriott | Posted 05.07.2013 | Books
Bill Marriott

Anyone who has studied American history knows that Thomas Jefferson was a brilliant thinker who wrote the Declaration of Independence and was our third president, and also founded the University of Virginia.

A Trend That Could Change Everything, Collaborations Across Generations -- And What It Means for Causes, Nonprofits and Social Enterprises

Jeffrey Walker | Posted 04.19.2013 | Impact
Jeffrey Walker

Today's B-school students and recent graduates are eager to connect with experienced business people and work collaboratively on the big social issues of the day, from poverty and health care to education and the environment. These collaborations can be extraordinarily powerful.

Meet The 68-Year-Old Junior At UVa (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.15.2013 | College

At 68-years-old, Jerry Reid might be the last person you'd expect to see as a University of Virginia undergraduate and fraternity member. Reid deci...

The Best Law Schools -- Or Are They!?

Posted 03.13.2013 | College

The all-important (or irrelevant, depending on who you ask) U.S. News & World Report rankings of the top law schools for 2014 were released Tuesday. ...

A Recovering Politician's Jeffersonian Vision

Ryan Filkil | Posted 04.23.2013 | Politics
Ryan Filkil

On Wednesday morning at the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson's hallowed Grounds, John Kerry gave his first speech as Secretary of State. He began by asking, "Why Cabell Hall instead of Kabul?"

Are You Raising a Narcissist?

Jeffrey Dill | Posted 04.21.2013 | Parents
Jeffrey Dill

Are you raising a narcissistic child? According to psychologists, there has been a sharp increase in narcissism in the United States.

Virginia Campus On Lockdown After Gunman Reportedly Spotted

Posted 03.25.2013 | College

A gunman has reportedly been spotted on the University of Virginia's College at Wise campus, prompting a college-wide lockdown, according to the schoo...

Hoax Report Prompts Lockdown At Virginia University

AP | Posted 03.25.2013 | College

WISE, Va. (AP) — A lockdown at a Virginia university has been lifted after state police determined a report of a gunman on campus to be a hoax. ...

The 12 Most Influential In College In 2012

Posted 12.31.2012 | College

The year is drawing to a close. The world did not end on December 21, 2012, despite History Channel specials suggesting otherwise. This year featur...

Tyler Kingkade

Helen Dragas Faces Battle To Stay On UVA Governing Board

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.17.2012 | College

More than 1,500 people have signed a petition started by a University of Virginia student calling for the state's general assembly to block the appoin...

University Of Virginia Put On Warning

AP | JAMIE STENGLE and MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 02.10.2013 | College

DALLAS — The University of Virginia was put on warning Tuesday by an accrediting panel that found indications the school broke governance rules ...

Archaeological Survey Uncovers 'Forgotten Cemetery' At UVA, Likely Black Slaves

The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va. | Ted Strong | Posted 02.03.2013 | Black Voices

The nameless graves follow the line of a long-gone fence. They're mostly marked with fieldstones, if they're marked at all. And though they sit just ...

UVA Student Group Holds 'Anti-Thanksgiving' Event

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 01.20.2013 | College

The American Indian Student Union at the University of Virginia has upset some conservative students on campus with an "Anti-Thanksgiving" event. T...

Was Climategate' The Reason For The UVA-Teresa Sullivan Controversy?

The Guardian | Posted 11.14.2012 | College

"Without an understanding of history, we can't understand the present or predict the future." Being a historian myself, I couldn't agree more. ...

Foliage Follies

The Black Sheep Online | Posted 12.26.2012 | College
The Black Sheep Online

Folks, we are all guilty of taking photos of "fall" with wretch-worthy hashtags, but try to refrain. If for no other reason, they are getting in the way of the funny drunken photos that pop up on our feeds.

Answer in the Affirmative

The Cavalier Daily | Posted 12.12.2012 | College
The Cavalier Daily

By upholding precedent, the Supreme Court will allow questions of race to be addressed in a pragmatic, constitutional manner rather than a political one.

ESSAY: What Will Online Courses Do To The University?

www.insidehighered.com | Posted 10.12.2012 | College

What will happen when universities form partnerships with companies like Coursera? How will the coupling of the university with an online distributio...

U. Of Virginia Alumni Will Push To Stop Administrator's Reappointment

chronicle.com | Posted 10.01.2012 | College

A group of University of Virginia alumni said on Thursday that it would push state legislators to reject the reappointment of the rector, Helen E. Dra...

UVA Students Blast 'Not Gay' Fight Song Chant With Resolution

Posted 09.28.2012 | Gay Voices

The University of Virginia's student council has unanimously passed a resolution to bar co-eds from inserting the word "not" before the word "gay" (me...

Letter Never Sent

The Cavalier Daily | Posted 11.26.2012 | College
The Cavalier Daily

Students know that turning an essay in late and with errors can cost them. The mistakes are magnified when they occur in a University's apologia to preserve accreditation. We hope SACS will grade kindly.

Top Party Schools 2012: The Playboy List!

Posted 09.26.2012 | College

According to Playboy's top ten party schools list, the University of Virginia is the No. 1 party school in America, followed by the University of Sout...