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UVA is partnering with several companies to create a new guaranteed interview program for certificate students, designed to improve the talent pipeline for both employers and job seekers in high-demand fields.
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Tim Richard had big goals, but life had a knack for getting in the way. Now he’s focusing on checking two major items off his bucket list.
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After decades away, adults return to college to embrace their curiosity and conduct research.
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A husband and wife with five kids in the house are managing a chaotic family schedule while both pursue degrees through the School of Continuing and Professional Studies. If they can do it, Robert Edmonds says, anyone can.
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UVA Launchpad is partnering with one of Virginia’s largest employers this summer to combine job training and academic instruction.
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Hallman, a human resources manager at Farmington Country Club, is also a leader in several community organizations.
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Three decades into a law enforcement career, Major Frank Carpenter was ready to pursue the new Master of Public Safety program at UVA.
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The curriculum dovetails with the Amazon Web Services certification process and is taught by professionals who currently work in cloud computing.
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Gladis Griffith’s parents instilled a fierce belief in education that led all eight of their first-generation American children to higher education – and many of them to the front of classrooms.
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Jennifer LoCasale-Crouch of UVA’s Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning explains how her team uses childhood development research to inform and adapt the courses they build for UVA students.
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California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye is teaching a course called “Constitutional Framework of Public Safety.”
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The pandemic changed Douglas Pula’s perspective. UVA’s program for career-changers interested in becoming physicians changed his future.
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Returning to complete her college degree as an adult, Leslie Arriaza found a community, work that shed light on her family’s history, and new opportunities in her career.
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Celeste Greene, appointed last month to the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Advisory Board, has long been at the forefront of environmental justice and online learning.
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies Dean Alex Hernandez will leave after the academic year to become president of Champlain College in Vermont.