McIntire School of Commerce
The McIntire School of Commerce is the University of Virginia's undergraduate and graduate business school that specializes in Commerce, Global Commerce, Accounting, Management of Information Technology-IT Management, and Business Analytics. It was founded in 1921 through a gift by Paul Goodloe McIntire.
McIntire's Rouss Hall
Paul Goodloe McIntire
The lawn; McIntire's present home
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his Academical Village, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The original governing Board of Visitors included three U.S. presidents: Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, the latter as sitting president of the United States at the time of its foundation. As its first two rectors, Presidents Jefferson and Madison played key roles in the university's foundation, with Jefferson designing both the original courses of study and the university's architecture. Located within its historic 1,135-acre central campus, the university is composed of eight undergraduate and three professional schools: the School of Law, the Darden School of Business, and the School of Medicine.
Thomas Jefferson, the university's founder, by Charles Willson Peale (1791)
The Rotunda, as pictured from the South Lawn
James Madison was the second rector of the University of Virginia until 1836.
Edwin Alderman was UVA's first president between 1904 and 1931 and instituted many reforms toward modernization.