The more we dig, the more we find. Last week, The Jefferson Council highlighted University of Virginia art-history professor Christa Robbins, who caused a stir for cancelling class so students could vote on the Israel-divestment referendum. She has publicly employed...
The following is an excerpt from an article published by OpenTheBooks.com, a nonprofit group dedicated to transparency in government spending, for which The Jefferson Council contributed research and fact-checking. OpenTheBooks.com CEO Adam Andrzejewski will speak at...
Here’s a schematic of the University of Virginia’s “Inclusive Competency Model” as found in an Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights document on the University website. That’s what you get when you turn over management of...
The Jefferson Council president Tom Neale joins the Armstrong Williams Show to discuss antisemitism and free speech at the University of Virginia.
During the University of Virginia Board of Visitors meeting Thursday, Provost Ian Baucom briefed board members on what the administration was doing to defuse tensions in the UVA community between Jews and the vocal pro-Palestinian faction over the...
University of Virginia students this week voted two-to-one in favor of a referendum asking the University to “divest its stocks, funds, and endowment from companies that profit from any and all acts of human rights violations across the world.” The...
Christa Noel Robbins teaches art history at the University of Virginia. On February 26, 2024, she wrote an email, which was forwarded to The Jefferson Council, explaining her reasons for canceling class. The art historian said she was motivated by solidarity with the...
Rachel Spraker (she/they) is assistant vice president of equity and inclusive excellence at the University of Virginia, one of fifteen staff members in the university’s Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).Here’s how the web page describes...
Parents of Jewish students recently compiled a list of incidents involving students and faculty detailing the hostile environment their children face at the University of Virginia which was sent to Rector Robert Hardie. We have obtained a cleaned-up copy of those...
Assistant professor Dr. Lanice Avery has a joint appointment to the departments of Psychology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia. Her research interests, she says on her university profile page, lie at “the intersections of race,...
