The dean of the University of Virginia’s business school has emerged as the top candidate in the search for the flagship’s next president ahead of a board meeting Friday in Charlottesville, according to two people familiar with the matter. The Board of Visitors is scheduled to review candidates for the top job at the university, […]
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Any discerning observer paying attention to the ongoing barrage of unprecedented attacks on the University of Virginia Board of Visitors (BOV) and its leadership cannot help but notice a striking similar pattern. The same allegations—largely manufactured, repetitious, and thinly sourced—are recycled again and again, apparently in the belief that if a proverbial “big lie” is
The would-be labor unionists of the UVA chapter of the AAUP claim that the UVA Faculty Senate is more representative than the AAUP itself, and naturally the officers of the Faculty Senate concur. But to anyone who knows how the UVA Faculty Senate operates, this is hilarious. Some units have such contempt for the Faculty
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StopAntisemitism’s 2025 Campus Antisemitism Report evaluated 90 colleges and universities nationwide, selected for their size, national prominence, volume of reported incidents, and student-reported vulnerability. The list spans large public institutions, elite private universities, and campuses with significant Jewish populations, with schools chosen based on documented antisemitic activity, ongoing federal Title VI investigations, and broader public
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Former university head Jim Ryan presided over a potential pattern of civil-rights violations. The University of Virginia drew national headlines last summer when its then-president, Jim Ryan, resigned in the face of a Department of Justice investigation into a potential pattern of civil-rights violations by the university. More recently, Ryan and others have accused the
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Inside Higher Ed, an online publisher of news and opinion in the higher education sphere, recently published an article entitled, “The Angry 8: On Faculty Senates.” The thrust of the story is that the faculty senates at many colleges and universities have been hijacked by a relatively small number of activists who have turned the
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On November 14, the UVA Faculty Senate passed a resolution calling for “University Leadership Rooted in Transparency and Accountability.” At the same meeting, it went even further, demanding the resignation of the Rector and Vice Rector of the Board of Visitors. This is unprecedented in the Senate’s history. It wasn’t an isolated flare-up. In July
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