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Sep 12, 2019 Congress is back in town. Here’s why lawmakers will struggle to get much done. Leadership Research and Commentary Congress is back from its August recess, and lawmakers face public demands for action on issues as varied as health care, infrastructure, gun safety and trade. Legislators face at least one set of “must pass” agenda items: 12 spending bills that need to be enacted into law by Oct. 1 or the federal government will shut down. Read in The Washington Post
Aug 21, 2019 University Faculty Learn How to Live More Connected Lives by Confronting Difficult Past Democracy Racial Justice and Equity This past June, Batten professors Lucy Bassett and Andrew Pennock participated in the University’s Teaching Race at UVA seminar. Launched in the summer of 2018, the seminar which is an initiative of the Office of the Provost grew out of a desire to deepen faculty’s understanding of the University’s and greater Charlottesville’s complicated history with race. Learn more
Jun 17, 2019 Batten Professor Harry Harding Sheds Light on Protests in Hong Kong Research and Commentary UVA Today spoke with Batten professor Harry Harding on Friday to learn more about what is happening in Hong Kong and what it means for China and the U.S. Q&A: WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE STREETS OF HONG KONG?
Apr 10, 2019 Righting A Wrong: Batten Professor Seeks Justice for Vinegar Hill Racial Justice and Equity Ethics As the director of social entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, professor Christine Mahoney had spent a good deal of her time devising innovative approaches for solving social challenges around the world. However, it gnawed at Mahoney that she hadn’t been able to do as much as she would have liked right here in Charlottesville. Learn more
Oct 08, 2015 Student Profile: Jasmine Burton Racial Justice and Equity I am extremely interested in poverty in relation to demographics, and specifically in areas where black Americans have migrated in order to start and build families that have been torn down by police. Learn more
Jun 10, 2015 Updating the Outdated: Craig Volden Seeks to Fix Research Model Errors Research and Commentary Research into public policy diffusion has exploded in the last 20 years. Scholars and thinkers have published hundreds of studies tracking the spread of policies from government to government. With countless dollars and thousands of hours invested, could it be that their studies are wrong? That’s what Batten School Professor Craig Volden seeks to find out. Learn more