Class of 2020: Future ‘Double-Hoo’ Hitting Her Own High Notes at UVA, Beyond News Music has always been at the core of Chloe Cohen, who will become a “Double-Hoo” after earning her master’s degree from the Batten School next month.
Personal Finance 101 Event Join Professor Pennock for an overview of the financial decisions you’ll be making after graduation. This workshop will cover principles of personal budgeting, insurance choices, investment and retirement planning, and more. You'll walk away with a greater understanding of personal finance, a functioning budget spreadsheet to help you plan your finances, and clarity about the choices you’ll be making soon.
Finding Common Ground Workshop In this course, award-winning professors at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy will help you gain a more nuanced understanding of how to overcome disagreements, how to approach those who hold different opinions and views, and how to influence others.
University Faculty Learn How to Live More Connected Lives by Confronting Difficult Past News 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.
Professor Spotlight: Andy Pennock News Andy Pennock is not your typical breed of professor. The father of four young boys (two sets of fraternal twin boys, aged three and five), teaches five courses per year and yet somehow finds the time and energy to publish a leading textbook on writing for public policy and an op-ed on education policy.