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Last Saturday, Oct. 21, as many hit snooze on the alarm, students gathered at the University’s Slaughter Recreation Center to experience what it might be like to live in poverty.

Master of Public Policy (MPP) graduate Isabela Medina-Maté has wasted little time since she graduated from the Batten School last May.

Earlier this fall, the Batten School was recognized for trailblazing leadership in academia to an audience of more than 170,000.

Michael Russell recently joined the Global Partnerships Department for the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he is responsible for generating revenue through sales of marketing/media platforms and finding creative ways to integrate partners within the NBA’s business. Previous to joining Global Partnerships full-time, he spent two years in the NBA’s Associate program, a rotational program across different departments within the company. He graduated as a member of Batten's 2016 undergraduate class and is proud to call UVA a home away from home.

In any introductory political science course, students learn that one of the defining features of a thriving democracy is elections—these being free and fair elections, of course.

On Friday morning, Oct. 5, Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia (SE@UVA), an initiative of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, came together with the office of Governor Ralph Northam and the Virginia Impact Investing Forum, to host the Virginia Impact Summit.

Last week, the Batten School and the Center for Politics hosted an event in Garrett Hall titled “The Economic Factors that Divide America” as part of the National Symposium Series on Democracy.

On Mondays, retired U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Paul Becker drives from his home in Alexandria to the University of Virginia. He holds office hours to meet with students, grabs an early dinner on the Corner, then teaches a course, Middle Eastern Policy Challenges and Opportunities, at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.

The non-partisan debate was moderated by Batten Professors Craig Volden and Gerald Warburg.

On September 21st, UVA hosted the 5th annual Shadwell Speaker Series, presented by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation and the Shadwell Society. This year’s featured speaker was foreign policy expert Anne-Marie Slaughter.

If you were present for Dean Stam’s State of the School, then you’ll remember his remarks about Batten’s IT department heading to San Francisco this month to discuss the cutting-edge technology that we all know here at Batten as Salesforce.

At a time when social problems are large and mounting, a growing group of philanthropists and investors are developing innovative financial approaches to fund critically important work, tackling everything from asthma interventions and early childhood education to affordable housing and the opioid crisis.