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Free expression
UVA Faculty— Transparency and Free Speech Are Not Harassment
In the recent past, members of UVA’s faculty have criticized attempts to obtain course syllabi and materials through Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) requests as harassment and infringements on their academic freedom.…
Accountability
Will UVA Choose Wisely?
UVA once was fully aware of its intended purpose. As it writes its next strategic plan, it has to decide whether it wants to remember. Near the end of the classic film…
Accountability
UVA Has One Tuition Price on Paper. Students Pay Seven.
The tuition figure Virginia reports for UVA is the university’s lowest price. Depending on what they study and how far along they are, many students pay thousands of dollars more. Ask what…
Accountability
UVA Administrators Have Grown More Than Ten Times As Fast As Its Students Since 2013
Upon founding the University, Mr. Jefferson made the decision to have no president, instead entrusting leadership of the institution to the chairman of the faculty. This fit perfectly with Jefferson’s distrust of…
Accountability
What 30 Years Did to UVA’s Price Tag
In the fall of 1995, a Virginia family sending a kid to UVA got a bill for $4,614 in tuition and required fees. Thirty years later, an entering first-year is billed $23,960…
Accountability
Double Standards are Alive and Well at UVA
This past week UVA announced its list of faculty Shannon Fellows. Shannon Fellowships are awarded to “outstanding mid-career faculty.” The three-year fellowship is designed, in the University’s words, to assist faculty members…
Accountability
One Week Later. Silence From UVA
A Student Answered. UVA Didn’t. Last week we asked whether anyone in UVA’s administration would respond to a petition promulgated by the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) demanding the resignation of…
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Who gets to speak at UVA, and who gets shouted down.
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