Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Admissions Blog Posts Tagged with Leadership Alum in Action: Kathryn Babbin For Kathryn Babbin (MPP ’19), the Batten community cannot be underestimated. Babbin who graduated last May with a master’s of public policy was drawn to the Batten School for a variety of reasons, mainly because it offered what seemed like a tight-knit community of students, faculty, and staff, where she felt she could make a real impact. Read More Alum in Action, Leadership 10 Batten Students Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Today, the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy is proud to announce that ten Batten students were elected to Phi Beta Kappa Society. Founded in 1776 amidst the American Revolution by five William and Mary students, Phi Beta Kappa remains America’s most prestigious honors society, and one whose founders believed education and academic excellence were integral to freedom of thought. Read More Leadership, Education Technology and Voter Intent: Evidence from the California Recall Election Conventional evaluations of voting systems focus on ballots for which no vote can be recorded (that is, “residual” votes). However, recorded votes that misrepresent voter intent are another potentially important, but less easily measured, source of error. Read More Leadership A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America While it is obvious that America’s state and local governments were consistently active during the nineteenth century, a period dominated by laissez-faire, political historians of twentieth-century America have assumed that the national government did very little during this period. A Government Out of Sight challenges this premise, chronicling the ways in which the national government intervened powerfully in the lives of nineteenth-century Americans through the law, subsidies, and the use of third parties (including state and local governments), while avoiding bureaucracy. Read More Leadership 'Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare:' A Prescription that Progressives Should Fill The state has consistently been displaced by individual initiative and market mechanisms in personal and collective memory and, more often than not, scholarly interpretations as well. Progressives, however, would do well to embrace rather than deride this pattern. Read More Leadership Mental models at work: Cognitive causes and consequences of conflict in organizations This research investigated the reciprocal relationship between mental models of conflict and various forms of dysfunctional social relations in organizations, including experiences of task and relationship conflicts, interpersonal hostility, workplace ostracism, and abusive supervision. Read More Leadership, Social Psychology Introducing the LEAD Dataset The Leader Experience, Attribute, and Decision (LEAD) data set provides a rich source of new information about the personal lives and experiences of over 2,000 state leaders from 1875–2004. For the first time, we can combine insights from psychology and human development with large-n data on interstate conflict for a new theory of leadership and inter-state relations. Read More Leadership When Are Women More Effective Lawmakers Than Men? Previous scholarship has demonstrated that female lawmakers differ from their male counterparts by engaging more fully in consensus-building activities. We argue that this behavioral difference does not serve women equally well in all institutional settings. Read More Leadership Class of 2019: Lacrosse Injury Opened World of Possibility for This Batten Student Brendin Duckett, who will graduate later this month, has immersed himself in University life since transferring to UVA after suffering a lacrosse injury. Read More Student Stories, Leadership, Domestic Policy & Politics Ian Solomon Named Dean of Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy The University of Virginia today announced the appointment of Ian H. Solomon as the next dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, effective Sept. 1. Solomon, currently CEO of SolomonGlobal LLC, is an educator, policymaker, diplomat and businessman with more than 20 years of experience in more than 40 countries. Read More Leadership, Education Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 17 Next page ›› Subscribe to Leadership Categories Personal Statement(3) Batten Ambassadors(29) Faculty(2) SE Minor(23) Accelerated MPP(59) Policy Minor(41) Application(33) Alumni(6) Career Outcomes(8) BA(64) Events(12) MPP(39) Admissions(47) Recommendations(11) New Student(14) Curriculum(33) Tuition and Financial Aid (1)Essays(8) Study Abroad (1)Student Life(37)