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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>
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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>
Jefferson

In Their Own Words: Marisa Williamson

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Meet Marisa Williamson. The Harvard-educated assistant professor in the University of Virginia art department works in video, image-making, installation and performance art around themes of history, race, feminism, and technology.</p>

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University of Virginia Spends $20 Million on 235 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Employees

<p>Tens of millions of dollars in student tuition and taxpayer monies are flowing into promoting anti-American notions and radical philosophies that judge the color of one’s skin instead of the content — and competence — of their character.</p>

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