U-Va. star professor: Why I won’t ‘un-resign’
Computer scientist William Wulf was a star professor at the University of Virginia until he recently resigned to protest the forced resignation of popular President Teresa Sullivan by…
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No ‘magic solution’ to college affordability
The numbers are alarming. The real cost of a college education in the United States has grown more than 100 percent over the last three decades, a rate…
U-Va. deans hatched online plan the day Teresa Sullivan was asked to resign
Unfolding details of the negotiation that led the University of Virginia into Stanford University’s Coursera online consortium last week reveal a poignant episode of bad timing, the Washington…
Federal officials probe Penn State for possible Clery Act violations
As Jerry Sandusky awaits sentencing on 45 child-sex-abuse convictions, several investigations continue to examine the role of Penn State University leaders in the scandal, including a probe of…
Fixed-rate tuition can minimize college-price angst
What's the greatest anxiety plaguing parents of college-age children? An educated guess? Based on my experience and conversations with students and their parents, it’s not simply how they…
South Korea outpaces the U.S. in engineering degrees
Any eighth grader who wonders if anyone actually uses algebra should ask Hyungtae Lee, an electrical engineer who writes algorithms to build computers with the power of human…
U-Va. takes major step in online education
The leadership crisis that rent the University of Virginia last month arose partly out of fear that other elite schools were moving into the vanguard of a coming…
Report on Penn State board’s failures has ramifications for U-Va. board
Penn State’s Board of Trustees was blasted today in a newly released report on how the school handled the Gerald Sandusky child abuse debacle, accused of failing in…
U-Va. upheaval: 18 days of leadership crisis
The call summoning Teresa Sullivan arrives at 3:30 p.m. June 18, as she lingers on the edge of the Lawn at the University of Virginia, thousands of supporters…
The U-Va. mess: Sign of the (bad) times
The debacle at the University of Virginia over the secretive ousting of the school’s first female president is more than a tale about how one school’s governing board…