Update: UVa Freezes Undergraduate Tuition One Year

by James A. BaconThe University of Virginia is freezing undergraduate tuition in the next school year, but increases in student fees, room, and board will total about $392, or about a 1.1% increase in the cost of attendance in the College of Arts & Sciences.The...

UVa Response to Medical Student First Amendment Lawsuit

by James C. SherlockJim Bacon reported April 8 on the claims of Kieran Ravi Bhattacharya, a former student at the University of Virginia Medical School, who alleges that he was retaliated against for exercising his First Amendment freedoms at a panel discussion by the...

Students Launch Conservative Publication

A dozen University of Virginia students have launched an online newspaper, The Jefferson Independent, to provide news and commentary from a conservative perspective on issues of interest to the UVa community.”In providing an outlet for intellectual diversity,...

Happy Birthday, T.J.!

Birthday cake concocted by Young Americans for Freedom to celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s birthday.

Professors as Partisans

by Walter SmithThe politically one-sided “news” in UVA Today makes me wonder if any editor knows anyone who voted for Trump last November, and surely makes me believe there is no chance students get anything other than an indoctrination – not an education from a...

When “Words Are Violence,” Only One Side Gets to Speak

by James A. BaconVictoria Spiotto was brought up in a conservative, religious family of Italian descent in Loudoun County.  It was at the University of Virginia where she found her political identity as a conservative. One day in her third year, she was walking the...

The Bureaucratic Banality of Academic Oppression

by James A. BaconTwo-and-a-half years ago, Kieran Ravi Bhattacharya, a medical school student at the University of Virginia, attended a session on “microaggressions” in which psychology professor Beverly Colwell Adams gave a presentation about her...

Cavalier Athletes Excel Academically

University of Virginia student-athletes enrolled between 2010 and 2013 have racked up the highest graduation-rate scores since the National Collegiate Athletic Association began issuing its annual Graduation Success Rate data.Cavalier student-athletes graduated at a...