When a high GPA is deemed important for future opportunities, students have more reason to avoid difficult courses, choose classes based on their expected grades and protect their transcripts, rather than pursue what genuinely interests them.
There is a new power-sucking facility being built less than two miles from you, and you may not even be aware of it.
Any leader deserves scrutiny for their professional past, regardless of their background and especially if they have ties to brutal military-industrial complexes through the IDF.
A report chaired by a philosopher that aims to invoke objective inquiry is hypocritically holding itself to a lower evidentiary standard than it criticizes.
In order for these students’ sustainability actions to reach a broader sphere of attention, green practices need to be encouraged and attainable, both of which can be achieved with increased advocacy.
According to various bumper stickers, t-shirts and other state gift-shop paraphernalia, Virginia is for lovers — yet the state constitution begs to differ.
Four opinion columnists write on upcoming ballot measures and key races for Virginia’s Nov. 3 general election.
Academic excellence and diversity have never been competing ideals.
There is still time to avert its current course — extend the time limit for submitting post-election complaints, open hearings to the public and honor the JRB's avenue of review.
The mindset of these influencers has significant consequences.
The underlying premise of the letter is undeniable — higher education indeed has a trust problem, but we should hesitate to rely on the federal government to define its causes for us.
The question the University must start asking is not how harshly students should be scrutinized for seeking accommodations, but why so many of them feel that they have no other choice.
No, Grushka-Cockayne should not be forced to resign before Darden even opens its doors for the fall, and SJP should seriously reconsider suggesting such a dramatic step.
A public research university having to negotiate for its independence is, on its face, an indictment of the system it operates within.
If we are to solve homelessness, temporary band-aid solutions like expelling or breaking up homeless communities will only displace more residents, alienate them from local governance and end up merely criminalizing this predicament.
There is no need to optimize every second, schedule every plan to the last minute or know every single person within a 15-foot radius.
True laziness means trusting yourself to lead your own life.
As families across our Commonwealth struggle to make ends meet, Virginians are yet again saddled with a state legislature with no concept of what the public actually wants.
This merger will only make Dominion and NextEra more powerful, but the benefits to taxpayers are slim.
Although this remains a multifaceted dilemma, there are indeed concrete steps, both personal and societal, that can be taken to protect the essential sense of hearing.
