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UVA Grad Students Urge Withholding of Year-End Grades

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The United Campus Workers of Virginia at the University of Virginia has launched a campaign urging faculty and graduate students to withhold grades until the Ryan administration capitulates to its demands of amnesty for people arrested during the crackdown on the pro-Palestinian “liberation zone.”</p>
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Board of Visitors Meets in Special Closed Session, Takes No Action

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Watch this recording of a special closed session of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors regarding the UVA Encampment for Palestine.</p>
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So Much for Empathetic Listening

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Students and faculty at the University of Virginia often talk about having "hard conversations" about the tragic realities. But do they have any interest in confronting discomfiting truths themselves? TJC contributing editor Jim Bacon writes.</p>
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What Would Thomas Jefferson Say About Disruptions on the Grounds?

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Perhaps Ryan could draw spine-stiffening inspiration from the University's founder Thomas Jefferson, who dealt with student riots in 1825.</p>

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Anatomy of an Intellectual Monoculture

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The ideological filtering process is at work at UVA. The more each department becomes ideologically homogenous, inclined to groupthink, and disparaging of anyone with different views, the less likely it is to hire anyone who thinks differently. A vicious cycle sets in. </p>

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