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The Baucom Resignation Could Set Off a Power Struggle at UVA

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Ian Baucom will step down as provost of the University of Virginia in March to become president of Middlebury College in Vermont. UVA will launch a national search for his replacement, the university announced today. His departure will likely set off a power struggle between President Jim Ryan and members of the Board of Visitors appointed by Governor Glenn Youngkin.</p>
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He Who Controls UVA’s Strategic Investment Fund Controls Its Strategic Direction

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">This is the first part of a new three-part series exploring the influence of UVA President Ryan’s Strategic Investment Fund.</p>
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One Man’s Fight For Transparency

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">My FOIA journey began in 2021, soon after the University of Virginia released its “free speech” statement. I was disappointed with it, thinking it lukewarm and empty of enforcement — a fig leaf resulting from the alumni outcry arising out of the poor handling of the F--- UVA Lawn door.</p>
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A Whisper of Fresh Air

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The first time Acampora came to my attention was at the September 2023 Board of Visitors meeting. She didn’t sound like a political progressive at all but rather, as she described herself to the board, “a bottom-line, up-front kind of person.”</p>

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Hodges Bill Would Require Universities to Archive Board Video

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">A bill introduced in the General Assembly would require public four-year institutions to record, archive, and make Boards of Visitors meetings available to the public for five years.</p>

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