We bring speakers to Grounds that the University would not otherwise invite, and we bring alumni back to hear them.
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As UVA approaches America’s 250th anniversary, alumni are asking fundamental questions about the future of Jefferson’s University: its mission, its governance, and its fidelity to the principles on which it was founded.
A conversation with the 2025 Republican nominee for lieutenant governor on the issues shaping the Commonwealth.
Retired Lt. Col. Allen West — combat veteran, former member of Congress — with Young America’s Foundation.
A survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution on what she recognises in American education today.
Connor Murnane of FIRE walks through the newly released College Free Speech Rankings and where UVA lands.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt on the interacting causes of the free speech implosion across American higher education.
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