University of Virginia employees who donated to Democratic Party candidates between 2017 and 2022 outnumbered Republican donors by an eighteen-to-one ratio, reports a National Association of Scholars case study. Professors favor Democratic candidates over GOP by a...
We’re making progress of a sort. The University of Virginia is dribbling out details that clarify the University’s spending on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Thanks to an article in UVA Today, the University’s house news organ, we have...
Natalie J. Perry, who now leads the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program at UCLA, plagiarized long passages in her PhD dissertation at UVA, allege Luke Rosiak and Christopher F. Rufo in The Daily Wire.In describing the plagiarism in Perry’s...
Dr. Tiffany King, a tenured professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Women, Sexuality, and Gender, spoke last week in a virtual symposium hosted by Hunter College’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies.The symposium At the Edge of Each...
It’s “Palestinian Liberation Week” at the University of Virginia this week, and the Students for Justice in Palestine have organized loads of activities for antizionists, culminating with a “Die-In for Gaza” Friday.”Wear your...
The Jefferson Council is often critical of the free-speech environment at the University of Virginia, but we’re also cognizant that things could be a lot worse. UVA could be Harvard, which has the worst possible free-speech rating from the Foundation for...
University of Virginia officials have responded, albeit obliquely, to questions raised by The Jefferson Council about the legality of a closed session called during a Board of Visitors meeting March 1.In a column posted in the So Hoos Asking feature of UVA Today,...
The Racial Equity Task Force, a 2020 document that transformed governance at the University of Virginia, listed twelve top priorities for addressing the legacy of historical racism. One was to address “serious challenges to racial equity in staff hiring, wages,...
If you visit the latest exhibit at the University of Virginia’s Ruffin Gallery, “EscapeRoom,” it takes no more than five or ten seconds for the artists’ message to sink in — the amount of time it takes to read the signage at the entrance:The...
Meet Marisa Williamson. The Harvard-educated assistant professor in the University of Virginia art department works in video, image-making, installation and performance art around themes of “history, race, feminism, and technology,” according to her UVA...
