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Enacting Racial Change by Design

<p>The backlash against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in higher-ed may be gathering momentum across the country, but the University of Virginia is rolling out a new DEI initiative oblivious to the shift in the national mood.</p>
Accountability

When Protesters Misbehave, Who Pays for Campus Security?

<p>If an event is held on a college campus and the university police department mobilizes twenty to thirty officers and auxiliary personnel to maintain order and keep everyone safe, who should pay the bill?</p>
Accountability

Covid and Religious Freedom at UVA

<p>The University of Virginia has paid more than $1.8 million in legal fees fighting a lawsuit filed by UVA Health employees who were fired, despite religious objections, for refusing to take the COVID vaccine. And that's just through November.</p>
Intellectual diversity

Morals, Coddling, Mental Illness, and Wokeness

<p>Jonathan Haidt is one of the most important public intellectuals in America today. If you're not familiar with his work, you need to be. You'll get a chance to hear him when he comes to the University of Virginia February 8 as a guest of The Jefferson Council.</p>

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Free expression

Don’t Cut the Rattle Off the Rattlesnake

<p>Free speech and open dialogue are the best ways to drive pernicious ideas into oblivion. Sadly for UVA, there is widespread support among professors and students not only for banning ideas they find offensive, but for shaming and shunning those who support the right of people to even hold and express those ideas.</p>

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