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UVA Report Finds No Pay Inequity for Black, Hispanic Faculty

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The Racial Equity Task Force, a 2020 document that transformed governance at the University of Virginia, listed 12 top priorities for addressing the legacy of historical racism. One was to address "serious challenges to racial equity in staff hiring, wages, retention, promotion, and procurement" but the report cited no actual evidence of disparities in pay.</p>
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UVA as a “Maze of Predatory Systems”

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Back in 2020, I was saddened and appalled when a student living on the Lawn scrawled "F--- UVA" in massive letters on her door. Where did this animosity originate? How had such thinking gained traction at Mr. Jefferson's University? The EscapeRoom exhibit provides part of the answer.</p>
Intellectual diversity

What Do All Those DEI Employees Do?

A reader wrote this letter in response to our article highlighting OpenTheBooks.com’s finding of 235 employees and interns in the University of Virginia’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy. The author asked…
Intellectual diversity

Why Can’t the University of Virginia Tell the Truth About Its $1 Billion DEI Plan?

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">UVA is in the midst of a $1 billion DEI program. Student tuition, progressive third-party foundations, and taxpayer money fund this massive initiative. However, the tenets of DEI are fundamentally anti-American and radical.</p>

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Who Counts as a DEI Employee?

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">We applaud OpenTheBooks for its extensive research and for its willingness to hold the Ryan administration's feet to the fire over the number of DEI administrators employed by UVA. But we must remember that there is an even bigger story to be told.</p>

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