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(02/03/15 4:43am)
Massive Open Online Courses are free online course studies offered to the public that are becoming more common in higher education. Recently, the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy developed its first MOOC this semester for Professor Gerald Warburg’s class Public Policy Challenges of the 21st century. This class will focus on U.S.-China relations, health policy and defense policy, to name a few, and will introduce speakers like U.S. Senator Tim Kaine and White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers. As a student in this class, it is exciting to know this opportunity is being shared and that the information I am learning will be offered to those who are unable to enroll in college or who lack access to these types of higher-ed classes.
(01/14/15 5:11am)
Last week the company Intel allocated 300 million dollars for workplace diversity. As evident from my previous columns discussing the issue of gender representation in certain professions, Intel’s action is much needed.
(12/03/14 6:23am)
Last week, President Obama announced his executive action on immigration policy, which will halt the deportation of roughly 5 million undocumented immigrants.
(11/18/14 5:35am)
The Virginia Film Festival (VFF) set a record this year and issued 28,609 tickets.This is impressive not only for the sheer quantity, but also for the number of University students who attended. When I went, I saw many University students in the audience, which is inspiring because we tend to distance ourselves from the Charlottesville community.
(11/04/14 4:35am)
The FX original, American Horror Story, is a show that is not afraid to transcend conventional television by breaking boundaries and addressing controversial topics.
(10/21/14 4:18am)
There is talk of legislation in certain States that will punish women who abuse illegal substances while pregnant. Depending on the law, some women will receive court-ordered treatment, while others will face prison sentences.
(10/07/14 4:51am)
Many students in the next few weeks are deciding whether or not to study abroad next semester and in the coming year. While a seemingly difficult decision, the choice to study abroad is one that students will not regret.
(09/23/14 4:53am)
Recently, University professor Josipa Roksa of the Sociology department contributed to a Wall Street Journal article regarding the efficacy of college education today. Professor Roksa and New York University professor Richard Arum tracked more than 1,600 students during college and about 1,000 for two years after their 2009 graduation dates. Their findings specifically underline the importance of social lives to college students and show that often times students choose social activities over those that may help them with their future career paths.
(09/15/14 4:26am)
Actress Jennifer Lawrence was in the news a few weeks ago when nude photos of her were released online. More recently, Los Angeles artist XVALA announced he would use some of the photos in his upcoming exhibit titled, “No Delete,” at Cory Allen Contemporary Art’s The Showroom in St. Petersburg, Florida next month. Defending himself against the critics XVALA said, “We share our secrets with technology. And when we do, our privacy becomes accessible to others.”
(09/01/14 3:29am)
Back in June, Google released its workforce diversity numbers, which showed that only 30 percent of Google employees worldwide are women and only 17 percent of technical staffers are female. These numbers are common among companies like Google, and I acknowledge that the pipeline problem exists: women hold fewer positions because they are statistically less likely to apply for technical jobs. But what about the women who quit after they have already accepted the job?
(04/28/14 3:50am)
I cannot believe we live in a world where a final exam period still exists. Numerous studies have been published on the many problems associated with cramming, on the harms of isolating ourselves for extended periods of time and focusing on too many topics at once. Yet, institutions of higher-education continue to assess students with cumulative exams, the majority of which occur in the last two weeks of school.
(04/24/14 3:01am)
Last week the Managing Board wrote about the dangers of allowing “radical speakers” to lecture on university campuses. They cited the recent case of Missouri State University’s religious studies instructor, David Embree, who invited now-murder-suspect, Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. — born Frazier Glenn Cross Jr. — to speak to his class two years ago. Cross, a former leader in the Ku Klux Klan, spoke to Embree’s students and shared his strongly bigoted views.
(04/14/14 5:27am)
The idea that cell phones and social media are detrimental to human relationships is nothing new, but recently I’ve found myself troubled by the amount of University students who use these devices to control their romantic relationships. Specifically, I am concerned with the couples who use text, email and even social media sites to have some of their most intimate conversations, such as revealing life changing secrets, saying “I love you” for the first time and even ending a relationship.
(04/08/14 5:09am)
Google has been criticized time and time again for dominating the search engine industry and breaching customer privacy; yet laws have not been implemented to address such blatant monopolization.
(03/24/14 5:10am)
The Managing Board wrote a piece titled “A pledge by any other name” last week about Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s decision to eliminate pledging. In the column, they quote IFC President Tommy Reid, saying he believes pledging can be a positive experience, but that it can become a negative experience if it is taken too far.
(03/17/14 4:52am)
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, launched a campaign called “Ban Bossy” through her Lean In Foundation last week.
(03/03/14 7:15am)
Women are “hosts” to fetuses, proclaimed Virginia Senator Steve Martin on Feb. 24, leading to intense debate over his word choice and views on abortion in general. Martin put himself at the center of a social media faux pas when he responded to a “Valentine’s day card” from the Virginia Pro-Choice Coalition which read, “All women deserve access to their full range of reproductive health options — including preventing unintentional pregnancies, raising healthy children, and choosing safe, legal abortion.”
(02/17/14 4:33am)
Last summer, well known philosopher Colin McGinn resigned from his tenured post at the University of Miami, where a graduate student accused him of sexually harassing her.
(02/10/14 4:39am)
My roommates and I had an epiphany while watching the Olympics this week. As the names and ages of the athletes flashed on the screen, we realized many of them were close to twenty years of age — some were younger — and began worrying. “How are these kids already so accomplished? How do they know what they want to do with their lives?” we wondered.
(02/03/14 2:39am)
This past week Disney made headlines for introducing the first-ever gay couple on its channel.
In last Sunday’s episode of “Good Luck Charlie,” Charlie’s parents set up a family play date with Charlie’s new friend Taylor. Taylor arrives at the play date with two women who introduce themselves as Taylor’s mom and “other mom.”