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 program that would allow her to perform vital education research, helping the Commonwealth of Virginia solve urgent policy problems.