The “no confidence” campaign against the University of Virginia Board of Visitors is gaining momentum with the United Campus Workers of Virginia (UCWV) joining the effort. Strikes and lawsuits are among the options available to protesters, although, as one panelist put it in a “teach-in” yesterday, strikes by state employees are illegal in Virginia and […]
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The Jefferson Council calls for Board of Visitors to take action. Melina Kibbe, dean of the University of Virginia Medical School, has been offered a job at the University of Texas Health Center at Houston, and will be officially named president after a 21-day waiting period, reports the Daily Progress. “I look forward to building
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Two days ago, I made the case that the University of Virginia has a shot at becoming the most desirable university in the country to learn, teach and pursue knowledge. To do that, the Board of Visitors must recruit a president and a provost committed to building a faculty nationally renowned for its intellectual diversity.
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The University of Virginia Faculty Senate today passed a resolution expressing “no confidence” in the Board of Visitors for failing to “protect the university and its president from outside interference” and for “not consulting with the faculty Senate in a time of crisis.” The faculty called for a full accounting of the “series of events
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In a statement to the University of Virginia faculty senate, Acting President J.J. Davis confirmed yesterday that the university had obtained outside counsel to assist in negotiations with the Department of Justice regarding “many areas of the inquiry” relating to the dismantling of racial preferences and DEI. “Through counsel, UVA is working collaboratively with the
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The departure of President Jim Ryan and Provost Ian Baucom suddenly leaves reformers in the driver’s seat at the University of Virginia. Now what? We know what we didn’t like — we didn’t like the reign of social-justice orthodoxy that stifled intellectual diversity and free expression, and we didn’t like the bureaucratic DEI apparatus that
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The U.S. Department of Justice sent seven letters to University of Virginia officials seeking confirmation that the University had ended racial preferences and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) in the lead-up to President Jim Ryan’s resignation, according to documents released to the Washington Post and Cavalier Daily under the Freedom of Information Act. The first
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The process for selecting the Board of Visitors secretary at the University of Virginia might seem arcane to outsiders, but it consumed the attention of board members briefly Friday before everyone agreed to table discussion until the regularly scheduled meeting in September. According to the Board manual, the secretary preserves documents, prepares the minutes, keeps
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University of Virginia officials violated the University’s own document-retention policies when it preserved bodycam videos of a University Police Department (UPD) encounter with Board of Visitors member Bert Ellis in March 2023. The videos were posted online in a Washington Post article critical of the activist board member this March, two years later, in the
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