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What Would Thomas Jefferson Say About Disruptions on the Grounds?

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Perhaps Ryan could draw spine-stiffening inspiration from the University's founder Thomas Jefferson, who dealt with student riots in 1825.</p>
Intellectual diversity

Anatomy of an Intellectual Monoculture

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The ideological filtering process is at work at UVA. The more each department becomes ideologically homogenous, inclined to groupthink, and disparaging of anyone with different views, the less likely it is to hire anyone who thinks differently. A vicious cycle sets in. </p>
Honor

Extensive Plagiarism Alleged for Education School PhD Dissertation

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Is this case an outlier or a symptom of a larger corruption in which academic standards were suspended for demographically favored groups?</p>
Accountability

Dr. Tiffany King: We Need to Crash the US Settler State

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Dr. Tiffany King, a tenured professor in the University of Virginia's Department of Women, Sexuality, and Gender, spoke in a virtual symposium "At the Edge of Each Other's Battles: Puerto Rican, Palestinian, Black, and Indigenous Futures.”</p>

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Keffiyehs, Yarmulkes, and Belonging at UVA

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Whatever UVA leadership might have said to people in private, their words and actions have been ineffectual in altering the reality that pro-Palestinian students feel comfortable wearing their badges of loyalty while most Jews have stopped wearing theirs.</p>

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