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Should we defund and divest or deconstruct and reconstruct?” Learn more Jun 12, 2020 What Colleges and Universities Can Do to Improve Police-Community Relations Education Crime and Justice Racial Justice and Equity What can America’s higher education system do to reduce the use of excessive force among police? As a public policy scholar who examines the interplay between race, policing and public governance, I see multiple things that colleges and universities can do to make a difference. Read in The Conversation Apr 07, 2020 The Batten School and NASPAA Announce Global Winners of the 2020 Student Simulation Competition International and Global Affairs Today, the Batten School and the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) announced the winners of the 2020 NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition—the largest student simulation competition in higher education. There were 64 teams competing at seven sites around the globe, devising and implementing public transport policies in order to create improved sustainability strategies for their virtual cities. Learn more Mar 25, 2020 Q&A: Batten Professor’s 2018 Global Pandemic Simulation Becomes All Too Real Health Policy Two years ago, Noah Myung and his team designed a global pandemic simulation competition for students at 15 universities that is eerily similar to what is happening now. READ IN UVA TODAY Feb 13, 2020 Simulation Learning Takes Students Out of the Classroom and Into the Middle of Public Crises Health Policy International and Global Affairs Every year, hundreds of master’s candidates from member institutions of NASPAA — the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration — participate in the NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition, co-hosted by Batten's Center for Leadership Simulation and Gaming, to see who can devise the best solutions to international crises. READ IN INSIGHT INTO DIVERSITY Jan 31, 2020 UVA Honors Its Leading Researchers at Boar's Head Banquet Leadership Education Social Equity The inaugural Research Achievement Awards featured University leaders handing out 13 honors to UVA’s most outstanding researchers, including Batten's Daphna Bassok and Brian Williams. READ IN UVA TODAY May 03, 2019 Class of 2019: Lacrosse Injury Opened World of Possibility for This Batten Student Leadership Domestic Policy & Politics Brendin Duckett, who will graduate later this month, has immersed himself in University life since transferring to UVA after suffering a lacrosse injury. READ IN UVA TODAY Apr 25, 2019 Batten Faculty Dominate the University's New Public Service Awards Program Advocacy Education Ethics Leadership UVA’s Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost created a new awards program to commend faculty for the contributions their public service makes to student learning, the advancement of scholarship and creative activity, and the University’s own public mission. Read in UVA Today Feb 27, 2019 A Need to Be ‘Engaged and Exposed’ at the Heart of Batten Professor’s Mission Brian N. Williams was in elementary school when a white classmate asked him something he would never forget. “He said, ‘When you die, will you go to the black heaven or the white heaven?’” Williams recalled. Williams, an African-American, didn’t know how to respond. Learn more Jan 24, 2019 585 Students Around the World Compete in Host Nations: A Refugee Simulation Advocacy Economics Domestic Policy & Politics Leadership On February 23, the third annual NASPPA-Batten Student Simulation Competition will take place, bringing together a record 585 graduate students from around the globe to tackle policy issues associated with forced migration through computer-based simulated gameplay. Learn more Nov 16, 2018 The Morris E. and Frances G. Williams Community Engagement Student Assistance Fund This past month, Batten Professor Brian Williams established the Morris E. and Frances G. Williams Community Engagement Student Assistance Fund. The fund, which will be distributed by the Office of Student Services, aims to encourage student-led engagement efforts that enhance the town and gown relationship in Charlottesville and surrounding areas of Central Virginia. Learn more Sep 18, 2018 Batten Hour's Panelists Tackle the Subject of Community Policing on Constitution Day Coinciding with Constitution Day, the Batten School’s weekly Batten Hour speaker series tackled the timely topic of community policing and how it can bridge the disconnect between Constitutional rights and the government’s use of force —in this case, police force. Learn more Pagination Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Current page 2 Stay Up To Date with the Latest Batten News and Events Subscribe
Jun 25, 2020 Where Do We Go From Here? Leadership Crime and Justice Racial Justice and Equity “We’re at the intersection of past and present—and we're teetering a bit,” Batten professor Brian N. Williams told an online audience last week. “Evolution or revolution? Reform or riot? Progress or more protests? Should we defund and divest or deconstruct and reconstruct?” Learn more
Jun 12, 2020 What Colleges and Universities Can Do to Improve Police-Community Relations Education Crime and Justice Racial Justice and Equity What can America’s higher education system do to reduce the use of excessive force among police? As a public policy scholar who examines the interplay between race, policing and public governance, I see multiple things that colleges and universities can do to make a difference. Read in The Conversation
Apr 07, 2020 The Batten School and NASPAA Announce Global Winners of the 2020 Student Simulation Competition International and Global Affairs Today, the Batten School and the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) announced the winners of the 2020 NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition—the largest student simulation competition in higher education. There were 64 teams competing at seven sites around the globe, devising and implementing public transport policies in order to create improved sustainability strategies for their virtual cities. Learn more
Mar 25, 2020 Q&A: Batten Professor’s 2018 Global Pandemic Simulation Becomes All Too Real Health Policy Two years ago, Noah Myung and his team designed a global pandemic simulation competition for students at 15 universities that is eerily similar to what is happening now. READ IN UVA TODAY
Feb 13, 2020 Simulation Learning Takes Students Out of the Classroom and Into the Middle of Public Crises Health Policy International and Global Affairs Every year, hundreds of master’s candidates from member institutions of NASPAA — the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration — participate in the NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition, co-hosted by Batten's Center for Leadership Simulation and Gaming, to see who can devise the best solutions to international crises. READ IN INSIGHT INTO DIVERSITY
Jan 31, 2020 UVA Honors Its Leading Researchers at Boar's Head Banquet Leadership Education Social Equity The inaugural Research Achievement Awards featured University leaders handing out 13 honors to UVA’s most outstanding researchers, including Batten's Daphna Bassok and Brian Williams. READ IN UVA TODAY
May 03, 2019 Class of 2019: Lacrosse Injury Opened World of Possibility for This Batten Student Leadership Domestic Policy & Politics Brendin Duckett, who will graduate later this month, has immersed himself in University life since transferring to UVA after suffering a lacrosse injury. READ IN UVA TODAY
Apr 25, 2019 Batten Faculty Dominate the University's New Public Service Awards Program Advocacy Education Ethics Leadership UVA’s Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost created a new awards program to commend faculty for the contributions their public service makes to student learning, the advancement of scholarship and creative activity, and the University’s own public mission. Read in UVA Today
Feb 27, 2019 A Need to Be ‘Engaged and Exposed’ at the Heart of Batten Professor’s Mission Brian N. Williams was in elementary school when a white classmate asked him something he would never forget. “He said, ‘When you die, will you go to the black heaven or the white heaven?’” Williams recalled. Williams, an African-American, didn’t know how to respond. Learn more
Jan 24, 2019 585 Students Around the World Compete in Host Nations: A Refugee Simulation Advocacy Economics Domestic Policy & Politics Leadership On February 23, the third annual NASPPA-Batten Student Simulation Competition will take place, bringing together a record 585 graduate students from around the globe to tackle policy issues associated with forced migration through computer-based simulated gameplay. Learn more
Nov 16, 2018 The Morris E. and Frances G. Williams Community Engagement Student Assistance Fund This past month, Batten Professor Brian Williams established the Morris E. and Frances G. Williams Community Engagement Student Assistance Fund. The fund, which will be distributed by the Office of Student Services, aims to encourage student-led engagement efforts that enhance the town and gown relationship in Charlottesville and surrounding areas of Central Virginia. Learn more
Sep 18, 2018 Batten Hour's Panelists Tackle the Subject of Community Policing on Constitution Day Coinciding with Constitution Day, the Batten School’s weekly Batten Hour speaker series tackled the timely topic of community policing and how it can bridge the disconnect between Constitutional rights and the government’s use of force —in this case, police force. Learn more