At a jam-packed meeting last week, the George Mason University Board of Visitors received a briefing from Sharnnia Artis, the university’s former vice president for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, on how the university is complying with a Trump administration mandate to dismantle DEI and racial preferences. For starters, Artis has a new title — vice […]
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Meeting in a special session today, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors emerged from behind closed doors to rescind a measure adopted in 2020 implementing the recommendations of the Racial Equity Task Force and to organize a working group to promote open inquiry and “constructive conversation.” Under heavy pressure from the Trump administration, the
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The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors convened at noon in a specially scheduled meeting to discuss one of the most contentious and potentially momentous issues it has ever been called upon to address — the dismantling of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and racial preferences. The meeting will not be live-streamed. Not that it would
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Matthew Carroll, an event coordinator with the Office of Student Affairs, was in his office at the University of Virginia on April 12, 2023, when a professor in Garrett Hall called to say that someone outside the building was playing music so loudly that he couldn’t teach. Student Affairs needed to fix the problem. Pronto.
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The following letter was shared with us by a group of Jewish parents at the University of Virginia. It calls for urgent accountability in response to a deeply troubling incident in which a Jewish student was allegedly threatened with a firearm by housemates — an act the parents identify as a targeted antisemitic attack. Their
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Pundits and politicians are enamored with the idea that Virginia will “make history” in its gubernatorial elections this fall. No matter who wins the election — Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears or Democrat Abigail Spanberger — she will be the first woman to serve as Governor. The making-history observation applies to Earle-Sears in triplicate. She’d
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I’m fortunate to have gotten to know Jason Miyares over the past few years, at least from my point of view there was an immediate connection. Both of us being children of parents who escaped lands of tyranny and oppression to find freedom in the USA, this background gives one special appreciation for American exceptionalism.
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Monday marked the 30-day deadline for University of Virginia President Jim Ryan to report back to the Board of Visitors about what he had done to execute on the board’s directive to dismantle the university’s DEI bureaucracy and end racial preferences. Ryan did, in fact, submit a report to the Board. Of course, as has
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This is Part 3 of a three-part series, DEI in the Dormitories The 200+ Resident Advisors who populate the University of Virginia’s undergraduate dormitories are required to put on several events for their hallmates and suitemates each semester. The RAs are given a small allowance for food for these get-togethers, one of which must have
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