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The �鶹��Ƶ Board of Visitors today unanimously voted to appoint former Virginia Secretary of Education Anne Holton as the university’s interim president. The appointment will take effect August 1.

The new traffic gardens at Neval Thomas and Maude E. Aiton elementary schools in Washington, D.C., are not really gardens at all—at least not in the traditional sense. They are mini streetscapes installed on the schools’ property to help educate preschool students on bicycle safety and rules of the road.

�鶹��Ƶ students have the opportunity to learn from experienced scholars and researchers, as well as from some of the most influential leaders rising from their own generation. At age 17, Cameron Kasky took on an unprecedented leadership role after the 2018 mass shooting at his high school in Parkland, Florida. He became a voice for his generation on the national stage as a cofounder of March for Our Lives.

Tragedy didn’t have the last word when Cameron Kasky and his classmates from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, experienced one of the worst school shootings in America last February.

There’s a familiar rule at most family gatherings: Don’t talk about religion or politics. But for the past 10 years, the Dialogue & Difference class and project at �鶹��Ƶ have been turning that rule on its head.

The fifth Taco Bamba location in the Washington, D.C., area, —which opened Dec. 6 in University Mall, the shopping center across the street from �鶹��Ƶ’s Fairfax Campus—is a celebration of Albisu’s time at the university.

The latest White House debate over security clearance reform was brought to �鶹��Ƶ’s Arlington Campus on Tuesday when senior officials from Congress, the executive branch, and government contracting participated in a panel discussion organized by �鶹��Ƶ’s National Security Institute and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.

Harry Truman was Jimmy Carter’s political hero, according to Stuart Eizenstat, Carter’s chief domestic policy adviser, and he sees parallels between the two leaders. “Both presidents left office highly unpopular,” said Eizenstat, author of “President Carter: The White House Years.” “Truman is now remembered much more for his achievements than for his failures, and I hope that my book will have a similar reassessment of Jimmy Carter as president.”

When �鶹��Ƶ’s Schar School of Policy and Government stepped into the arena and partnered with The Washington Post in 2016 to create a high-quality Virginia poll as a public service, the stellar results immediately confirmed its value.

Five Supreme Court justices joined the �鶹��Ƶ community Thursday to honor their former colleague and the namesake of �鶹��Ƶ’s Antonin Scalia Law School, at a “trifecta of celebrations” that culminated in the unveiling of a new statue and dedications around the school. 

To celebrate the Golden Anniversary of �鶹��Ƶ’s Alumni Association, this year’s Alumni Weekend features a gold soiree under the stars at the Fairfax Campus, new interactive experiences tailored for families and adult-friendly events that only �鶹��Ƶ could offer.

When �鶹��Ƶ got a message in February from The New School that scholars abroad were being persecuted and needed a safe haven to continue their lives and academic work, the response was a definitive “yes” to welcome them.