The making of an intellectual monoculture at UVA“Conservative students at the University of Virginia,” a fourth-year student once confided to me, “know who all the conservative professors are. … All seven of them.”That was only a slight exaggeration. Through my work...
The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors passed a resolution in late April requesting a report by June on efforts to improve viewpoint diversity. The resolution directs senior leadership to present, at the June BOV meeting, a summary of the university’s efforts...
The search at the University of Virginia to replace outgoing provost Ian Baucom is well underway. The outcome will reflect the shifting balance of power between President Jim Ryan and a Board of Visitors determined to bring a measure of intellectual diversity to an...
Charlottesville, VA — In a new call to action appearing in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Jefferson Council is appealing to the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors to take urgent action in restoring principled leadership to the University.The full-page...
UVA’s Reddit page is buzzing with discussions about the Spring Honor Committee update and a rising wave of cheating incidents—especially at the Darden School of Business. UVA students are asking a question that The Jefferson Council has been researching for quite some...
Virginia Commonwealth University has eliminated 13 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion positions, revised some scholarship requirements, and eliminated mandated diversity statements, reports The Richmond Times-Dispatch.In March, VCU’s board voted 11 to 4 to implement...
Stu, the Jefferson Council’s social media guru, notes in the X post above that the University of Virginia continues to hold identity-based graduation ceremonies: one dubbed the LGBQT Lavender Ceremony and one the Multicultural Recognition Ceremony.Although the...
At a jam-packed meeting last week, the George Mason University Board of Visitors received a briefing from Sharnnia Artis, the university’s former vice president for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, on how the university is complying with a Trump administration...
Meeting in a special session today, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors emerged from behind closed doors to rescind a measure adopted in 2020 implementing the recommendations of the Racial Equity Task Force and to organize a working group to promote open...
The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors convened at noon in a specially scheduled meeting to discuss one of the most contentious and potentially momentous issues it has ever been called upon to address — the dismantling of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and...
