Archives
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…
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…
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…
Earlier
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…
UVA’s New Strategic Plan: What it Says, and Doesn’t Say
President Beardsley’s decision to formulate a new long-term strategic plan for UVA is a welcome one, especially since the last plan, produced under President Jim Ryan, read like a blueprint to transform…
UVA’s First-Year Experience is Supposed to Unite Students. Their Mandatory Engagement Courses Demonstrate Otherwise
Every incoming student in UVA’s College of Arts & Sciences is required to take four two-credit “Engagements” courses their first year — eight credits total, out of roughly 30 a first-year typically…
DEI By Any Other Name is Still Noxious
Did UVA eliminate DEI, or merely rebrand it? For over a decade, successive UVA administrations spent millions of dollars building one of the most extensive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) bureaucracies in…
Why Mr. Jefferson Deserves an Apology from Kenyon Bonner
At last month’s UVA graduation ceremony, Vice President of Student Affairs Kenyon Bonner impugned Thomas Jefferson’s character and intelligence, chastising him for “ignorance and hubris.” The charge is empirically unfounded and displays…
Slowly But Surely FOIA Requests Reveal Obfuscation Surrounding Healthcare Scandal
A bombshell disclosure in a recent FOIA proceeding reveals that UVA’s Board of Visitors, led by Robert Hardie, quietly retained Williams & Connolly (W&C) as “special counsel to the BOV and the…