Author: Emma Baumgardner
Speaker Series with James Childress
Following his initial presentation on “Ethics in the Time of Covid-19”, James Childress will lead four highly interactive online seminars on specific pandemic-related ethical topics. Seminar dates and topics appear below. Participants must RSVP to join the seminar series within this registration form. Seminar Registration You are invited to participate in any or all seminars, […]
Year-End Updates, Fall 2021
December 2021 Greetings Year-end greetings from the Board of Directors of the UVA Retired Faculty Association. As 2021 is coming to a close, we hope you are doing well and continuing to enjoy retirement despite the ongoing challenges presented by the pandemic. As we look forward with a bit of optimism to a new year, […]
Dean Ian Baucom
“Ian Baucom is the Buckner W. Clay Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia, appointed in 2014. Under his leadership, Arts & Sciences launched its new College Curriculum to better prepare undergraduate students for 21st-century lives through a variety of means—especially as a result of a […]
Craig Littlepage
During the 2000-2001 academic year, University President, John Casteen, and the Board of Visitors announced the formation of a Task Force to study the operations and financial sustainability of the Department of Athletics. The intercollegiate athletics program was deemed to be underfunded and was in jeopardy of having to cut sports if its financial limitations […]
Caroline Janney
Join Caroline Janney November 8, 2021 at 12:00 noon for a discussion on “Confederate Monuments and the Lost Cause”. In recent years, perhaps no topic of American history has found itself more scrutinized by the lay public and the media more than the Civil War, and more specifically Confederate symbols. But why is this topic […]
William J. Antholis
“William J. Antholis serves as Director and CEO of the Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history. Antholis is the author of the book Inside Out India and China: Local Politics Go Global. It explores how country-sized provinces and states in the world’s two […]
Respecting Liberty and Protecting Public Health: Securing Compliance with Public Health Directives
17 January, 12:00 noon: Respecting Liberty and Protecting Public Health: Securing Compliance with Public Health Directives Securing compliance with public health directives is difficult enough when the public trusts scientists, clinicians, and public health officials but extremely challenging when distrust and mistrust prevail. In a liberal society, liberty has presumptive priority but may sometimes be […]