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In the wake of President Ryan’s resignation and the prior departure of the Provost, three top leaders at UVA Health have now stepped down as well. That’s the University’s highest academic and medical leadership gone in a matter of months. Meanwhile, the Board of Visitors appears to be on summer vacation — offering no explanation […]

The Jefferson Council calls for Board of Visitors to take action. Melina Kibbe, dean of the University of Virginia Medical School, has been offered a job at the University of Texas Health Center at Houston, and will be officially named president after a 21-day waiting period, reports the Daily Progress. “I look forward to building

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – 
It is now two weeks since the resignation of President Ryan, leaving UVA without a president and provost. It is unclear why the Board of Visitors has failed to meet during this crucial period to choose an interim president and reinstitute what certainly appears to have been a failed search process for

Two days ago, I made the case that the University of Virginia has a shot at becoming the most desirable university in the country to learn, teach and pursue knowledge. To do that, the Board of Visitors must recruit a president and a provost committed to building a faculty nationally renowned for its intellectual diversity.

The University of Virginia Faculty Senate today passed a resolution expressing “no confidence” in the Board of Visitors for failing to “protect the university and its president from outside interference” and for “not consulting with the faculty Senate in a time of crisis.” The faculty called for a full accounting of the “series of events

In a statement to the University of Virginia faculty senate, Acting President J.J. Davis confirmed yesterday that the university had obtained outside counsel to assist in negotiations with the Department of Justice regarding “many areas of the inquiry” relating to the dismantling of racial preferences and DEI. “Through counsel, UVA is working collaboratively with the

The departure of President Jim Ryan and Provost Ian Baucom suddenly leaves reformers in the driver’s seat at the University of Virginia. Now what? We know what we didn’t like — we didn’t like the reign of social-justice orthodoxy that stifled intellectual diversity and free expression, and we didn’t like the bureaucratic DEI apparatus that

The U.S. Department of Justice sent seven letters to University of Virginia officials seeking confirmation that the University had ended racial preferences and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) in the lead-up to President Jim Ryan’s resignation, according to documents released to the Washington Post and Cavalier Daily under the Freedom of Information Act. The first

President Jim Ryan resigned on June 27, 2025, after months of failing to demonstrate compliance with a unanimous vote from UVA’s bipartisan Board of Visitors, followed by an ongoing DOJ investigation into illegal discrimination. Here’s a timeline of the key events: March 7: The UVA Board of Visitors voted unanimously (17-0) to dissolve the Office