At the direction of Board of Visitors Secretary Susan Harris, a compilation of nearly 50 letters and email messages to the Board and President Jim Ryan was distributed to Board members Tuesday. The letters were almost uniformly critical of the Board’s decision earlier this month to abolish the office of Equity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement.
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One might think that revamping a website would be an easy start to complying with the Board of Visitors’ order to dismantle the Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at the University of Virginia. Retitle the home page. Put up an “Under Construction” logo. Post a statement indicating that changes are coming. Do something! But a full week after the Board’s unanimous vote, the website still stands, as if nothing had changed.
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Decision-making at the University of Virginia is shrouded in secrecy — and leadership is just fine with that.
“DEI is done at the University of Virginia,” said Governor Glenn Youngkin in a Saturday interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingram. “This is a big day for the University of Virginia,” the governor said a day after the UVA Board of Visitors voted unanimously to abolish the university’s office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and
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Members of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors expressed strong reservations about the tuition increases approved in December and asked for a special meeting with administrators to dig deeper into the university’s finances. No formal action was taken, but Chief Operating Officer J.J. Davis told Bacon’s Rebellion during a break after the finance committee
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The University of Virginia Board of Visitors passed a resolution today dissolving the university’s Office of Equity, Inclusion, and Community Partnerships and ordering a review of university programs and policies to ensure that they conform with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Trump administration guidance. By way of explanation, the resolution
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Deputy Provost Brie Gertler posed quite the conundrum to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors this afternoon: Ninety-two percent of UVA Jewish students felt valued as individuals in 2024, according to a poll by Student Experience in the Research University (SERU). But only 52% agreed that students sharing their religious beliefs were respected on
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Virginia’s public colleges and university must act now to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination on campus, state Secretary of Education Aimee Guidera wrote Saturday in a letter to the institutions’ presidents and governing boards. Guidera’s letter directed the governing boards of each school to review in their next meeting all practices that could violate
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Last week the University of Virginia Board of Visitors met to discuss one of the most contentious public-policy issues roiling American politics today: the medical treatment of transgender youth. The meeting was closed to the public, and board members were enjoined not to reveal what was said.
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