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Quelle surprise! Work requirements in social safety programs reduce participation, as opposed to help the recipients.

Temi Akinola Akinola of Charlottesville, a 2020 global security and justice and French language and literature graduate, is an English teaching assistant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. “I am particularly interested in education and its formation on peace-building and human rights,” she said. “I will be teaching English at an all-girls high school, completing tutoring college prep programs through the U.S Embassy and working with the National Council for Human Rights in [Ivory Coast].” She was supposed to start in October 2020, but that was moved to the beginning of February. “My stay has ...

Temi Akinola Akinola of Charlottesville, a 2020 global security and justice and French language and literature graduate, is an English teaching assistant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. “I am particularly interested in education and its formation on peace-building and human rights,” she said. “I will be teaching English at an all-girls high school, completing tutoring college prep programs through the U.S Embassy and working with the National Council for Human Rights in [Ivory Coast].” She was supposed to start in October 2020, but that was moved to the beginning of February. “My stay has ...

ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL April 06, 2021 The University of Tulsa has selected Brad Carson, a professor of public policy at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, as its next president. Carson, who has taught courses related to national security and public sector innovation at Batten since 2018, will conclude his time with the school at the end of the 2020-21 academic year. “The University of Tulsa has made a terrific selection in Brad Carson,” UVA President Jim Ryan said. “His experience in public service and leadershi...

ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL March 08, 2021 Last year, Alex Pinckney found herself struggling to pick a graduate school. The pandemic wasn’t helping matters. “I felt very overwhelmed, trying to make this decision without the ability to visit the schools I was considering,” Pinckney said. Then she got an email from Dan Player, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy – one of the schools that had offered her admission. During a phone call soon after, he told her that at UVA, she could likely participate in a ...