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Keffiyehs, Yarmulkes, and Belonging at UVA

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Whatever UVA leadership might have said to people in private, their words and actions have been ineffectual in altering the reality that pro-Palestinian students feel comfortable wearing their badges of loyalty while most Jews have stopped wearing theirs.</p>
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UVA Report Finds No Pay Inequity for Black, Hispanic Faculty

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The Racial Equity Task Force, a 2020 document that transformed governance at the University of Virginia, listed 12 top priorities for addressing the legacy of historical racism. One was to address "serious challenges to racial equity in staff hiring, wages, retention, promotion, and procurement" but the report cited no actual evidence of disparities in pay.</p>
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UVA as a “Maze of Predatory Systems”

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Back in 2020, I was saddened and appalled when a student living on the Lawn scrawled "F--- UVA" in massive letters on her door. Where did this animosity originate? How had such thinking gained traction at Mr. Jefferson's University? The EscapeRoom exhibit provides part of the answer.</p>
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In Their Own Words: Marisa Williamson

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Meet Marisa Williamson. The Harvard-educated assistant professor in the University of Virginia art department works in video, image-making, installation and performance art around themes of history, race, feminism, and technology.</p>

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What Do All Those DEI Employees Do?

A reader wrote this letter in response to our article highlighting OpenTheBooks.com’s finding of 235 employees and interns in the University of Virginia’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy. The author asked…

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