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Whatever We Build Ends Up Building UsBatten kicks off the fall semester—a day shy of class—by giving back to the community with Batten Builds.
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The Batten School and UVA Center for Politics Announce Democracy in Perilous Times: Unprecedented Challenges and Controversies
With the midterm of a presidential administration approaching and control of the Congress and U.S. Supreme Court weighing in the balance, today the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the UVA Center for Politics announced a new National Symposium Series on Democracy.
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Center For Effective Lawmaking Discusses Rising Drug Costs, Other Issues With Congressional Aides
"If there is any maxim in health policy, it's this: nothing is as simple as it seems." — Carolyn Engelhard, Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences and Public Policy
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The Batten School Welcomes Three New Professors for the 2018-19 Academic Year
The Batten School's unique approach attracts some of the nation’s best scholar-practitioners from around the globe.
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Batten’s Leblang: How Deporting Immigrants From the U.S. Increases Immigration to the U.S.
"Deportation policies don’t merely affect deportees’ countries of origin. They also create a vicious migration cycle by pushing more people away from their homes."
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Batten MPP Leads Program Where First-Generation UVA and Local Students Rise Together
Batten MPP student Bryan Christ and his mother, Gina, created "Rise Together," a non-profit group-mentoring program that pairs UVA students with dozens of students at three Albemarle County schools. (photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)
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Batten’s Lipscomb Helps Break Up Senegal’s “Toilet Cartel”
Molly Lipscomb and others worked with the Senegalese Ministry of Sanitation to improve waste disposal in the capital city of Dakar.
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Batten Welcomes the MPP Class of 2020
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United Kingdom Next Stop for Batten Student, Two Others, with $40,000 Each in Rotary ScholarshipsAccelerated MPP David Varghese will pursue a Master of Public Health degree at Imperial College London.
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Batten Professor and Others Argue that President Trump has Probably Increased Illegal MigrationIn this essay in The Washington Post, David Leblang and others argue that President Trump has probably increased illegal migration by ending ‘temporary protected status’ for half a million people. "The Trump administration argues that ending TPS designations will decrease the flow of undocumented migrants across the border. Our research suggests precisely the opposite."
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Batten Alum and Fellow UVA Graduate Develop New Snack Food to Satisfy—and Enlighten—YouRecent Batten graduate Chenam Barshee, left, and fellow UVA alum Sogyel Lhungay launched their new company, Tsampa Tsnacks, through the UVA i.Lab Incubator Program.
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The Batten School Opens Applications for Fall 2019
Applications for the Batten School’s Master of Public Policy (MPP), Accelerated MPP, and Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy and Leadership programs are now open. The school’s programs inspire students to act vigorously, effectively and ethically on behalf of the common good.