The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors convened at noon in a specially scheduled meeting to discuss one of the most contentious and potentially momentous issues it has ever been called upon to address — the dismantling of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and racial preferences. The meeting will not be live-streamed. Not that it would […]
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The following letter was shared with us by a group of Jewish parents at the University of Virginia. It calls for urgent accountability in response to a deeply troubling incident in which a Jewish student was allegedly threatened with a firearm by housemates — an act the parents identify as a targeted antisemitic attack. Their
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Monday marked the 30-day deadline for University of Virginia President Jim Ryan to report back to the Board of Visitors about what he had done to execute on the board’s directive to dismantle the university’s DEI bureaucracy and end racial preferences. Ryan did, in fact, submit a report to the Board. Of course, as has
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This is Part 3 of a three-part series, DEI in the Dormitories The 200+ Resident Advisors who populate the University of Virginia’s undergraduate dormitories are required to put on several events for their hallmates and suitemates each semester. The RAs are given a small allowance for food for these get-togethers, one of which must have
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Part 1 of a three-part series, DEI in the Dormitories To visit the Instagram page of the University of Virginia’s residence advisors (RAs), who mentor dormitory students and enforce the rules, is to pass through a portal into a world of happy thoughts and contagious exuberance. The RAs, as they are known, exude positivity. In
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Meet Melody Pannell, UVA Health\’s Director of Diversity and Community Engagement. Her job is to \”cultivate an inclusive community, address social disparities and health inequities, and empower others.”
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Parents of Jewish students recently compiled a list of incidents involving students and faculty detailing the hostile environment their children face at the University of Virginia which was sent to Rector Robert Hardie. We have obtained a cleaned-up copy of those incidents to share, some of which have been previously reported on and some have
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by James A. BaconThe University of Virginia task forced assigned the job of ensuring that UVa is \”welcoming\” to all religions includes two faculty members who signed an open letter criticizing UVa President Jim Ryan for failing after the October 7 terrorist rampage afflicted upon Israel to acknowledge the suffering of the Palestinian people.Ryan denounced
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