28 June 2024Glenn YoungkinGovernor of the Commonwealth of VirginiaDear Governor Youngkin,You are getting close to the June 30 deadline for announcing five new nominees to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors. As of July 1, your appointees will comprise a Board...
EXCERPTI have done a series of research studies on the political imbalance in America’s universities. The higher-education institutions that most Americans believe have been established to encourage learning, curiosity, and thought now encourage the reverse....
One of the primary objectives of The Jefferson Council for the University of Virginia is to promote a culture of civil dialogue, the free exchange of competing ideas, and intellectual diversity throughout the University. Since the advent of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish...
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.—University...
The United Campus Workers of Virginia (UCWVA) at the University of Virginia has launched a campaign urging faculty and graduate students to withhold grades until the Ryan administration capitulates to its demands of amnesty for people arrested during the May 4...
The University of Virginia Faculty Senate voted Friday to call for an “independent and external” review of the use of police force to shut down the pro-Palestinian “liberation zone” near the University Chapel a week previously.In a second vote,...
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors met in a special closed session on May 10 for a briefing by law enforcement, administration, and legal counsel on security-related issues relating to the UVA Encampment for Palestine and final exercises. Upon coming out of...
Militant students and faculty at the University of Virginia — and elsewhere — often talk about having “hard conversations” about the tragic realities in Gaza. To see what those “conversations” sound like, click on the video above.It was hard...
Militant students and faculty held an online gripe session today skewering University of Virginia President Jim Ryan and Provost Ian Baucom, and their rhetoric — including calls for Ryan’s resignation — is more heated than ever. While I support the actions Ryan...
A continuing meme in the ongoing rhetorical battle between progressives and anarchists on the one hand and the Ryan administration on the other is that University of Virginia authorities brutally cracked down on peaceful protesters May 4 while allowing white...
