In a special meeting called Friday, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors made it crystal clear who was in charge of setting university policy — the board, not the president. It was the most forceful assertion of board authority since the board under Rector...
CHARLOTTESVILLE — The Jefferson Council (TJC), a nonprofit alumni association formed to preserve Thomas Jefferson’s legacy of freedom and excellence at the University of Virginia, has been made aware of a special meeting of the Board of Visitors scheduled for this...
Concerned about the growing threat of antisemitism at UVA, several parents of Jewish students inquired about meeting with President Ryan. After several requests, he finally relented but to speak with a very small group comprising four parents and their student...
The University of Virginia’s “Rising Scholars” program in the College of Arts and Sciences, which dispenses graduate fellowships exclusively to racial, ethnic, sexual and gender minority students, has ceased accepting applications, according to a posting on its...
Don’t question university overhead costs or thousands will die!That is essentially the message of Virginia’s big three research universities — Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Commonwealth University — in response to a National Institutes of...
Now comes the battle to replace the University of VIrginia’s provost Ian Baucom. The University has assembled a fourteen-person group to launch a national search, according to an announcement in the UVA house organ UVA Today.The announcement attributed the...
When University of Virginia President Jim Ryan appeared in a WVIR-TV interview in late January, he seemed fatigued. His brow was deeply furrowed and his face, already lean from marathon training, wore an expression of perpetual worry.The last few months have been the...
Scrutinizing ResearchUVA has established the goal of boosting its status as a research university. Sponsored research now accounts for roughly $714 million a year in a $5.4 billion total budget (including both academics and the healthcare division). The strategic case...
We knew the $1.5 million, taxpayer-funded Attorney General report on the circumstances surrounding the November 13, 2022, triple murder at UVA would be delayed past the promised release date next month — we just didn’t know the excuse for doing it.Now we do.UVA...
During the December board meeting, The Jefferson Council (TJC) co-founder and current UVA BOV member Bert Ellis announced that he would not approve the $525 million in requested capital projects under consideration for approval ($315MM arts center, $160MM student...
