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Coping with the Affordability Crisis in Virginia Higher Ed

by James C. SherlockVirginia’s state-funded colleges and universities are too expensive. Tuitions are the headline numbers. But student fees and food and housing costs are as important to the budgets of families and individual…
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Jefferson Fought Slavery Throughout His Life

by Robert F. TurnerThomas Jefferson famously declared that “all men are created equal,” yet he owned hundreds of human beings during his lifetime. Does he deserve our respect?Slavery was obviously a heinous…
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The Governor’s Tuition Freeze Request and the Board at UVa – It’s Complicated

by James C. SherlockMuch has been made of a recent request by Governor Glenn Youngkin to eliminate a tuition increase at the University of Virginia and the Board’s decision not to honor…
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Open Letter to Lily West

Letter from Jefferson Council board member Joel Gardner to Lily West, president of the University of Virginia Alumni Association, Richard Gard, editor of the alumni association magazine Virginia, Whitt Clement, rector of…

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Your Alumni Association Dollars at Work

by James A. BaconAbove is an ad that The Jefferson Council submitted to run in the University of Virginia Alumni Society, Virginia. Before I tell you the fate that befell this ad,…

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