CHARLOTTESVILLE — A new semester should be a time of joy, hope, and excitement. Instead, we have returned to the anxiety of last semester with the news of the defacing of the Israeli flag at UVA’s McIntire School.The McIntire School’s Dean, Nicole Jenkins, swiftly...
ExcerptThe decision comes after years of pressure from the Jefferson Council, a conservative alumni group, and less than two months after Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s appointments assumed a majority on the school’s governing Board of Visitors.It also comes mere...
ExcerptThe Jefferson Council, a conservative alumni group, had been calling for an end or change to the tour program, insisting that volunteers had been wrongly besmirching the legacy of UVA’s founder.[…]Council president Thomas Neale, a 1974 UVA grad, said his...
ExcerptThe tours, aimed primarily at prospective students and their families, were run by student volunteers. For several years, the tour organization, the University Guide Service, has been the focus of criticism from an organization of conservative alumni...
Last Friday, July 26, we shared a link in our weekly must-reads newsletter to a UVA Today article touting UVA’s recent Money Magazine and Princeton Review rankings. While we applaud national recognitions of our beloved alma mater, these rankings do not paint a full...
Back in 2020, the University of Virginia Astronomy Department jumped on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) bandwagon. Ashamed of its history of attracting so few Blacks and Hispanics, the Department formed a DEI committee to advance the goal of making the...
The Jefferson Council champions free speech and intellectual diversity at the University of Virginia. We welcome columns, op-eds, and letters addressing issues affecting the UVA community for publication on our guest forum, like the one submitted below.—EXCERPTJim...
Since our inception four years ago, The Jefferson Council has relentlessly fought to implement our four founding pillars:Promote a culture of civil dialogue, the free exchange of competing ideas and intellectual diversity throughout the UniversityPreserve the...
The Jefferson Council champions free speech and intellectual diversity at the University of Virginia. We welcome columns, op-eds, and letters addressing issues affecting the UVA community for publication on our guest forum. We are honored to feature “Visions From...
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, welcomes the five new members appointed by Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to the...
