James Bacon

By introduction, I am a graduate of The College and Darden. I continue to believe the University is the most special place in the world, for all the reasons that I\’m sure you and your friends & colleagues share.My oldest son is a junior in high school, and is interested in UVa. We went to

by James A. BaconWhat\’s the Honor Committee to do when a student who violated the Honor Code refuses or is unable to comply with his or her \”sanction\” ordered by the Committee? That\’s one of the tricky questions arising from the shift to a multi-tiered system for punishing lying, cheating and stealing that the Committee

by James A. BaconWhat\’s the Honor Committee to do when a student who violated the Honor Code refuses or is unable to comply with his or her \”sanction\” ordered by the Committee? That\’s one of the tricky questions arising from the shift to a multi-tiered system for punishing lying, cheating and stealing that the Committee

In Bacon\’s Rebellion, Jim Sherlock makes a novel point that I haven\’t seen discussed elsewhere. The University of Virginia and other elite higher-ed institutions are thriving in an age of declining student enrollment because they are perceived as elite. That perception depends in large measure upon the fact that some of the smartest, highest-achieving students

The Morgan Bettinger case is gaining national notoriety. After Reason magazine detailed the travesty of the University of Virginia student who was punished for using the words \”speed bumps\” in a way that militant leftist protesters construed as threatening, the Daily Mail has picked up the story. The Daily Mail does not add much new

Huge news from the Virginia Military Institute with implications for the University of Virginia….by James A. BaconThe Youngkin administration has just unloaded a HIMARS rocket attack on Virginia Military Institute\’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion program.Speaking Friday in a session of mandatory \”inclusive excellence training,\” Martin D. Brown, Youngkin\’s chief of Diversity, Opportunity & Inclusion, left

Huge news from the Virginia Military Institute with implications for the University of Virginia….by James A. BaconThe Youngkin administration has just unloaded a HIMARS rocket attack on Virginia Military Institute\’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion program.Speaking Friday in a session of mandatory \”inclusive excellence training,\” Martin D. Brown, Youngkin\’s chief of Diversity, Opportunity & Inclusion, left

by James A. BaconWhen Emma Camp was a student at the University of Virginia in 2020, she heard the tale of Morgan Bettinger, another UVa student, who was said to have approached left-wing protesters in downtown Charlottesville and threatened to make \”speed bumps\” of them.The story, says Camp, was repeatedly endlessly on social media —