Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Admissions Blog Posts Tagged with Student Life Experiential J-Term Course Offering Due to popular demand, we will be offering our experiential course, Impact Investing in Appalachia in the J-term again this Winter! Students will travel through rural Appalachia and get to meet and learn from local entrepreneurs and impact investors. Read on to learn more about this course from current SE Fellow Drew! Read More SE Minor, Curriculum, Student Life Batten Faculty Spotlight: Professor Daniel Player One of Batten students’ favorite professors is Daniel Player who joined the Batten School back in 2015. 4th year BA student Liv Nguyen-Dillon took some time to sit down with him to learn more about his research and his time at Batten. Read More Faculty, Student Life, Batten Ambassadors Meet the Undergraduate Lead Ambassadors The undergraduate Lead Ambassadors are current Batten BA third and fourth year students in the Bachelor of Arts program. Each of them bring a unique perspective on life at Batten, and you will see them at many of the Batten admissions events throughout the year. Read on to learn more about our Lead Ambassadors! Read More Student Life, Batten Ambassadors A Reflection on CIBO from First Year MPPs First year MPP student Kaitlyn Savage shares more about the experience she and her classmates had with Batten's two-week MPP orientation - the Complete Immersion Batten Orientation (CIBO)! Read on to learn more about the program and the transition to the first weeks of the semester. Read More MPP, New Student, Student Life, Accelerated MPP Meet the Social Entrepreneurship (SE) Fellows The SE Fellows are student representatives working to promote the pan-university social entrepreneurship minor. They host office hours every week where you could seek start-up advising, schedule planning help, or study abroad information. Read on to meet our SE Fellows and ready why they chose the SE minor! Read More SE Minor, Curriculum, Student Life Batten Student Spotlight: Gary Christensen MPP '23 This week, we sat down with first-year MPP student Gary Christensen to learn more about his Batten experience. Gary moved from Salt Lake City, Utah to attend Batten after spending several years at Goldman Sachs. Read on to learn more about Gary and his advice for prospective students in our latest blog post! Read More MPP, Student Life, Batten Ambassadors Student Spotlight: Scott Rykala MPP '23 Scott is a first-generation college student from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Before Batten, Scott was an intern on Capitol Hill. Keep reading to learn a bit more about Scott's journey to Batten and his advice for prospective students! Read More MPP, Student Life, Batten Ambassadors Student Spotlight: Alyssa Tulabut MPP/MBA '24 After working for six years after graduating from UVA, read why Alyssa Tulabut (MPP/MBA '24) decided to return to Grounds to pursue a dual degree at Batten and Darden. Read More MPP, Student Life Batten Student Spotlight: Guada Pinto (MPP ‘22) In honor of Latinx Heritage Month, the Admissions team sat down with second-year Accelerated MPP and Batten Latinx Network (BLN) President Guada Pinto to discuss her student experience and the role of BLN within the Batten School. Read More Student Life, Batten Ambassadors, Accelerated MPP Transitioning to the Batten Classroom Continue following first year post-graduate MPP candidate Ellie Murphy as she finishes her first month of coursework at Batten. Read on to learn more about her transition to graduate coursework, her daily schedule, and her favorite study spots! Read More Curriculum, MPP, Student Life, Batten Ambassadors Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 2 Next page ›› Subscribe to Student Life Categories Faculty(2) New Student(13) Batten Ambassadors(28) Policy Minor(38) Accelerated MPP(56) Application(31) Events(11) Career Outcomes(8) Personal Statement(3) Essays(8) Study Abroad (1)Recommendations(11) Alumni(6) Student Life(36) MPP(39) Admissions(44) SE Minor(20) Tuition and Financial Aid (1)Curriculum(33) BA(61)