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  • Parks Daniel, Dual Batten-Darden Graduate, Looks Ahead to High-Impact Career With Mastercard
    Parks Daniel, Dual Batten-Darden Graduate, Looks Ahead to High-Impact Career With Mastercard

    "It’s the combination of Batten and Darden that has brought me to this place." — 2018 dual graduate Parks Daniel.

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  • Three Batten Graduates Secure Staff Positions with North Carolina General Assembly
    Three Batten Graduates Secure Staff Positions with North Carolina General Assembly

    Master's degree graduates Madison Lahey, Grant Schwab, and Mary Greeson will begin work this summer in the Fiscal Research Division of the North Carolina General Assembly.

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  • Batten’s 2018 Graduates Honored for Perseverance, Integrity, Leadership, and Academic Achievement
    Batten’s 2018 Graduates Honored for Perseverance, Integrity, Leadership, and Academic Achievement

    More than three dozen 2018 Batten graduates received year-end recognition with an impressive range of accolades honoring intellectual curiosity, athletic success, character, service, and kindness, among other attributes.

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  • Batten’s Jeff Bergner: A Professor’s Advice to the 2018 Graduates
    Batten’s Jeff Bergner: A Professor’s Advice to the 2018 Graduates

    "Do your best to make the world better, but don’t try to compel it to mirror your ideas in every particular. This will make you permanently unhappy." — Jeff Bergner, who teaches the Batten Capstone Seminar "War Powers."

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  • Batten Family Gift Supports $20 Million for Graduate Student Fellowships
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  • Congressman Connolly Discusses Technology, Immigration, Privacy and Other Issues With UVA Students
    Congressman Connolly Discusses Technology, Immigration, Privacy and Other Issues With UVA Students

    Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) spoke in April to students in Professor Gerald Warburg's course, “Public Policy Challenges of the 21st Century."

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  • New Batten Course This Fall Will Focus on Political Action and Engagement
    New Batten Course This Fall Will Focus on Political Action and Engagement

    Paul Martin's class will address the theme of political mobilization, focusing on movements as diverse as civil rights; tax revolt in California; and labor and union activity in coal mining regions of West Virginia, southern Virginia and Tennessee; and other social actions as well. (photo by Don Hamerman)

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  • Class of 2018: Globetrotting Batten Student Did Anything But Stay Home For School
    Class of 2018: Globetrotting Batten Student Did Anything But Stay Home For School

    Althea Pickering will join the World Food Programme in D.C. as a partnerships officer. The organization is the leading humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and resilience. (photo courtesy of Dan Addison, University Communications)

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  • Batten Assistant Professor Dan Player Receives UVA’s 2018 All-University Teaching Award
    Batten Assistant Professor Dan Player Receives UVA’s 2018 All-University Teaching Award

    "I teach students, not courses. I know I have met my main objective when my students begin to see the world in a different way." — Dan Player (photo by Jack Looney)

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  • Batten’s Leickert: Elite Universities Must Do More to Help Low-Income High School Students Like Me
    Batten’s Leickert: Elite Universities Must Do More to Help Low-Income High School Students Like Me

    Our public universities have to do more to make sure they’re not merely credentialing factories for the already advantaged, and that they are instead actively building pipelines for students from high schools like mine, composed of large numbers of minority and low-income students, struggling with accreditation, and stuck with low college enrollment. Policymakers should take steps to ensure this happens.

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  • Batten Honors Former Virginia House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell With “Outstanding Virginian” Award
    Batten Honors Former Virginia House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell With “Outstanding Virginian” Award

    Former speaker of Virginia's House of Delegates William J. Howell received the 2018 Outstanding Virginian award at a ceremony at Batten's Garrett Hall.

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  • Q&A: Denuclearization in North Korea? Batten’s Todd Sechser Isn’t Holding His Breath
    Q&A: Denuclearization in North Korea? Batten’s Todd Sechser Isn’t Holding His Breath

    "North Korea spent several decades and billions of scarce dollars developing its nuclear and missile capabilities. (North Korean leader Kim Jong Un) is not going to give them up in exchange for a handshake and a smile." — Todd Sechser

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