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Two shootings, two separate public university responses–will the public demand the transparency it deserves?
UVA commissioned two reports on the 2022 shooting that killed three of its students, then released them so heavily redacted that large stretches are unreadable. In fact, roughly fifty pages across the…
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UVA’s New Strategic Plan: What iT Says, and Doesn’t Say
President Beardsley’s decision to formulate a new long-term strategic plan for UVA is a welcome one, especially since the last plan, produced under President Jim Ryan, read like a blueprint to transform…
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UVA’s First-Year Experience is Supposed to Unite Students. Their Mandatory Engagement Courses Demonstrate Otherwise
Every incoming student in UVA’s College of Arts & Sciences is required to take four two-credit “Engagements” courses their first year — eight credits total, out of roughly 30 a first-year typically…
Higher Education
DEI By Any Other Name is Still Noxious
Did UVA eliminate DEI, or merely rebrand it? For over a decade, successive UVA administrations spent millions of dollars building one of the most extensive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) bureaucracies in…
Free Speech
Why Mr. Jefferson Deserves an Apology from Kenyon Bonner
At last month’s UVA graduation ceremony, Vice President of Student Affairs Kenyon Bonner impugned Thomas Jefferson’s character and intelligence, chastising him for “ignorance and hubris.” The charge is empirically unfounded and displays…
Investigations
Slowly But Surely FOIA Requests Reveal Obfuscation Surrounding Healthcare Scandal
A bombshell disclosure in a recent FOIA proceeding reveals that UVA’s Board of Visitors, led by Robert Hardie, quietly retained Williams & Connolly (W&C) as “special counsel to the BOV and the…
Thomas Jefferson
Statement on the Trashing of Thomas Jefferson by UVA’s Vice President of Student Affairs During Graduation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Charlottesville, VA – The Jefferson Council strongly condemns Kenyon Bonner’s denigration and marginalization of Thomas Jefferson during his address at UVA’s final exercises. His remarks were incongruous, unseemly, and…
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