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Independent investigations, public records research, and community action at the University of Virginia.
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Reporting drawn from public records, filings, and the University’s own materials
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…
Accountability
UVA Has Been Facing This Issue Since 2023. It Still Hasn’t Responded. President Beardsley, Will You?
Within days of the worst massacre, torture, and sexual violation of Jews since WWII which occurred on October 7, 2023, the UVA chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) began a…
Governance
How UVA Became One of the Most Liberal Universities in the Country
Recently NICHE, an extensive data analytics platform used by families to evaluate and choose among educational institutions, published a list of the 25 most liberal colleges in the country. Most of the…
Accountability
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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