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The Lawn is a UNESCO World Heritage site and the physical argument for what Jefferson thought a university was. How UVA treats it, and how it talks about him, is not a side issue.

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Did UVa Stack the Deck in Its Lawn Selection Process?

by James A. BaconIt is deemed a great honor to be one of the 47 fourth-year students at the University of Virginia awarded a residence on the Lawn, Thomas Jefferson’s architectural masterpiece…
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UVa Committee to Study Free Expression Issues

by James A. BaconThe University of Virginia has created two new committees: one to articulate the university’s commitment to free expression and inquiry, and another to examine naming and memorials on the…
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Restructuring Higher Ed for Greater Produktivität

by James A. BaconLast month the University of Virginia Board of Visitors approved a recommendation to eliminate the M.A. and PhD programs in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures. While UVa…
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Orwellian Aspirations, a False Alumni Association Narrative, and Adult Supervision at UVa

by James C. SherlockSometimes things come together that confirm one’s worst fears but improve hope for the future simultaneously. Such a turning point happened with me not long after UVa’s alumni magazine,…

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Darkness Descends upon Mr. Jefferson’s University

by James A. BaconIn the previous post I gave a chronological account of how a classroom joke delivered by Associate Professor Jeffrey Leopold in University of Virginia business class exploded into a…

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