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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – The Jefferson Council views President Ryan’s resignation as a necessary and welcome step toward restoring intellectual diversity, depoliticizing the University, and a commitment to equal treatment for all. He stepped down under intense scrutiny from the Board of Visitors, the Governor, and the Department of Justice over his leadership failures. “For too […]

University of Virginia officials violated the University’s own document-retention policies when it preserved bodycam videos of a University Police Department (UPD) encounter with Board of Visitors member Bert Ellis in March 2023. The videos were posted online in a Washington Post article critical of the activist board member this March, two years later, in the

The making of an intellectual monoculture at UVA “Conservative students at the University of Virginia,” a fourth-year student once confided to me, “know who all the conservative professors are. … All seven of them.” That was only a slight exaggeration. Through my work with the Jefferson Council I have identified a dozen faculty members openly

The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors passed a resolution in late April requesting a report by June on efforts to improve viewpoint diversity. The resolution directs senior leadership to present, at the June BOV meeting, a summary of the university’s efforts to ensure an “intellectual climate and campus culture where all students, faculty and

The search at the University of Virginia to replace outgoing provost Ian Baucom is well underway. The outcome will reflect the shifting balance of power between President Jim Ryan and a Board of Visitors determined to bring a measure of intellectual diversity to an institution whose faculty and campus climate have been transformed under Ryan

Charlottesville, VA — In a new call to action appearing in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Jefferson Council is appealing to the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors to take urgent action in restoring principled leadership to the University. The full-page advertisement declares that The Time Is Now for New Leadership at UVA and outlines seven

UVA’s Reddit page is buzzing with discussions about the Spring Honor Committee update and a rising wave of cheating incidents—especially at the Darden School of Business. UVA students are asking a question that The Jefferson Council has been researching for quite some time: “Anyone Know What is Going On with Darden and Honor?” This comes

Virginia Commonwealth University has eliminated 13 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion positions, revised some scholarship requirements, and eliminated mandated diversity statements, reports The Richmond Times-Dispatch. In March, VCU’s board voted 11 to 4 to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring universities to eliminate DEI and racial preferences. The action eliminated the Division of Inclusive Excellence.

Stu, the Jefferson Council’s social media guru, notes in the X post above that the University of Virginia continues to hold identity-based graduation ceremonies: one dubbed the LGBQT Lavender Ceremony and one the Multicultural Recognition Ceremony. Although the Department of Education recently issued guidelines that forbid racially segregated graduation ceremonies, UVA is skirting the prohibition