TO: All UVA Alumni and Friends Who Care About Our UniversityFROM: The Jefferson CouncilRE: We Are Losing the Soul of Our UniversityDATE: May 20, 2021On the eve of Final Exercises at our University, we, the founding members and Board of the Jefferson Council, feel the need to send out this letter regarding very troubling developments […]
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by Walter SmithNext weekend is Finals (graduation in University of Virginia speak). The Class of 2021 class arrived at the University just after the traumatizing Unite the Right rally, lived through the backlash against Donald Trump, suffered through the suppression of unpopular conservative views, was afflicted with the Engagements requirements of the new curriculum, and
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The Committee on Free Expression and Inquiry heard more than 20 students, professors, alumni and parents during an hour-and-a-half \”listening session\” May 4, but did not respond to questions or concerns.University of Virginia President Jim Ryan created the Committee on Free Expression and inquiry in February after bitter complains from alumni, students, and a faculty
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