If you have landed here from a link someone sent you, this page is the ten-minute version. Five things happening at the University of Virginia right now, each with the reporting behind it.
1. UVA is among the most ideologically lopsided universities in the country
A 2026 FIRE study put the ratio of students identifying as liberal rather than conservative at better than five to one — among the widest gaps at any major public university. It was not always like this, and how it happened is documented rather than mysterious.
How UVA became one of the most liberal universities in the country →
2. Two law firms investigated the 2022 shooting. Fifty pages came back blank.
Three UVA students were killed in November 2022. The University commissioned two investigations and then took twenty-eight months to publish them, redacted so heavily that roughly fifty pages across the two reports contain a header, a page number, a claimed exemption, and nothing else. Old Dominion faced a comparable situation and released its report in months.
Two shootings, two very different responses →
3. UVA certified twice that it dismantled DEI. The staff directory disagrees.
The Board of Visitors voted to dissolve the DEI office in 2025, and the University has since filed two compliance certifications with the Justice Department. A review of its own records shows many of the same officials in place under new titles in reorganised offices.
4. The first-year experience sorts students rather than uniting them
A shared first year is supposed to take eighteen-year-olds from every background and make one community out of them. UVA's mandatory Engagements courses are organised largely around race, gender, and identity, teaching incoming students to see each other as members of groups before they see each other as classmates.
What the Engagements courses actually teach →
5. Getting records out of UVA is a fight, and we publish the fight
Virginia law gives a public body five working days to answer a records request. We keep a log of what we have asked for, what came back, and what is still outstanding.
Read the reporting on public records →
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