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A Tired Ryan Contemplates a Difficult Future

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The last few months have been the most trying time in Ryan’s six-and-a-half-year tenure. After enjoying tremendous initial success in implementing his priorities at UVA, he is now mired in endless controversies which threaten to unravel his legacy.</p>
Accountability

One Man’s Fight For Transparency

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">My FOIA journey began in 2021, soon after the University of Virginia released its “free speech” statement. I was disappointed with it, thinking it lukewarm and empty of enforcement — a fig leaf resulting from the alumni outcry arising out of the poor handling of the F--- UVA Lawn door.</p>
Intellectual diversity

The Woke Scare Is Four Times Worse Than the Red Scare

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">More than a third (35%) of tenured and tenure-track faculty at 55 of the nation’s most prestigious colleges and universities say they have toned down their writing for fear of engendering controversy. How does this compare to the Red Scare of the ‘50s?</p>
Intellectual diversity

UVA’s Administration has Willfully Ignored Its Longstanding Antisemitism Problem     

<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The <em>Daily Progress </em>recently reported on perhaps the most staggering antisemitic incident in what has become a long list of antisemitic incidents at the University of Virginia.</p>

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Honor

President Joel Gardner’s Letter to the BOV

<p>A senior tenured faculty member has anonymously expressed concerns about various circumstances prevalent on Grounds. This professor wishes to remain anonymous due to fear of retaliation by the administration. One of the matters he/she discusses is the deterioration of our Honor System, focusing on the "secession" by the faculty from the System.</p>

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