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How to Degrade Academic Excellence, Lesson #1: Make SATs Optional

In Bacon’s Rebellion, Jim Sherlock makes a novel point that I haven’t seen discussed elsewhere. The University of Virginia and other elite higher-ed institutions are thriving in an age of declining student…
Honor

The Trivialization of Honor

Last week the Honor Council debated the viability of requiring Honor Code violators to perform community service under the University of Virginia’s new system of multi-tiered sanctions. No vote was held on…
Accountability

Daily Mail Picks up Bettinger Story

The Morgan Bettinger case is gaining national notoriety. After Reason magazine detailed the travesty of the University of Virginia student who was punished for using the words “speed bumps” in a way…
Intellectual diversity

“DEI Is Dead” at VMI

Huge news from the Virginia Military Institute with implications for the University of Virginia….by James A. BaconThe Youngkin administration has just unloaded a HIMARS rocket attack on Virginia Military Institute’s Diversity, Equity…

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Free expression

How the Digital Rumor Mill Fed Incoherent Social-Justice Hysteria

by James A. BaconWhen Emma Camp was a student at the University of Virginia in 2020, she heard the tale of Morgan Bettinger, another UVa student, who was said to have approached…

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