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UVa’s “Agency” Problem

by James A. BaconLast week the Ryan administration presented a graph to the Board of Visitors showing how tuition & fees for undergraduate Virginia students is lower at the University of Virginia…
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Serve the University’s Interests, UVa Board Members Told

by James A. BaconIn their 2020 book on higher-ed governance, “Runaway College Costs,” James V. Koch and Richard J. Cebula elaborate on how university presidents manipulate their boards. Flattery and the bestowal…
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How Does UVa In-State Tuition Compare to Other Top 50 Universities?

by James A. BaconThe University of Virginia Board of Visitors sets tuition & fees every other year. This is one of those years. In December the Board is scheduled to announce tuition…
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Don’t Get Too Fired Up About UVa’s FIRE Ranking

by Allan Stam The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) recently gave the University of Virginia a 6th-place ranking in a national survey assessing the state of free speech on college…

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UVa’s Ever-Expanding Bureaucracy: Student Advising Edition

by James A. BaconUniversity of Virginia old-timers (like myself) remember what it was like to find help in picking courses and deciding majors. We’d latch ourselves onto a professor who took an…

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