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Team Youngkin Flexes Muscles at UVA Board Meeting
In a special meeting called Friday, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors made it crystal clear who was in charge of setting university policy — the board, not the president. It…
How to Create a Monoculture: Rising Scholars
<p class="preFade fadeIn" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The University of Virginia’s “Rising Scholars” program in the College of Arts and Sciences, which dispenses graduate fellowships exclusively to racial, ethnic, sexual and gender minority students, has ceased accepting applications, according to a posting on its website. The website provides no explanation, but…</p>
The End of Science! Lives Will Be Lost!
<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Don’t question university overhead costs or thousands will die! That is essentially the message of Virginia’s big three research universities — Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Commonwealth University — in response to a National Institutes of Health initiative capping reimbursable overhead costs to 15% of the research grants it dispenses. And I’m not exaggerating about the “thousands will die” part.</p>